The winners of the 2024 British Animation Awards have been introduced at London’s BFI Southbank. The winner for the Finest Undergraduate Award was Sena Miyazaki for his quick movie Cortex. Additionally nominated by the college was Moonseeker by Tanya J Scott within the Postgraduate class.
A few of the UK’s main animation programs have been represented within the high undergraduate and high postgraduate movies. The winners have been Sena Miyazaki’s (Arts College Bournemouth) Cortex for Finest Undergraduate Scholar Movie and Tanya J. Scott’s (Nationwide Movie and Tv College) The Wolf of Custer for Finest Postgraduate Scholar Movie.’
– BAA press launch
Cortex is a brief movie of simply over 4 minutes, telling the story of a determined man who undergoes an experimental process utilizing a know-how referred to as CORTEX. The system takes him on a journey via his thoughts to reconstruct reminiscences and alter his previous trauma.
‘The concept for Cortex initially got here from the lockdown. I used to be alone with my ideas loads and my solely escape was creativity. I assumed concerning the energy that new applied sciences can have over us and our dependence on them, particularly in nations like Japan.’
“In 2022, my third 12 months at AUB, I used to be engaged on Cortex and had a tough thought of what I wished the story to be, however I hadn’t fairly figured it out but. That is why I took a brief course in visible storytelling at GOBELINS in France, the place they guided me for a number of weeks to develop the story.
‘I additionally took quick programs with artists I actually admire. Many artists train their very own programs and it is an effective way to make trade connections whilst you’re nonetheless in faculty. It is also an effective way to emulate a selected studio if you wish to work there sooner or later.
‘I really feel like this award is an accumulation of all of the exhausting work I’ve finished over time. I am simply so grateful for the whole lot, the alternatives I’ve had and the help from AUB and in addition from the trade. I am nonetheless undecided if the information concerning the worth has actually sunk in but. I do know that in 2022 I might be very happy with the whole lot that has occurred, and particularly happy with this award.’
-Sena Miyazaki, director
Sena is now working for Disney as a background painter on a undertaking that may debut in summer time 2024. Congratulations to Sena and all of the British Animation Awards nominees, impressed to create new worlds via animation.
You’ll be able to watch Cortex on YouTube.
