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student animated short, "A la Francaise," from Morrigane Boyer, Julien Hazebroucq, Ren Hsien Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, and William Lorton, took the Best in Show Award! "Lost Senses," from Marcin Wasilewski, received the Jury Prize. Best Student Project went to "Rollin' Safari," from Kyra Buschor, Anna Habermehl, and Constantin Päplow, with Best Student Project Runners-up awarded to "Sleddin'," from John Pettingill, and "Harald," from Mortiz Schneider. As usual, there will be some curated works this year, which allows for the inclusion of last-minute VFX clips from some of the summer's blockbusters – always popular with the attendees, Smith points out. Overall, there are more submissions from Asia and Europe, thanks to an international outreach effort. Game cinematics made a strong contribution this year, too, so much so that the genre has its own screening category in Daytime Selects this year. A Demoscene reel, provided by Scene.org, shares a unique and often unrecognized area. Everything screened in this category is procedurally generated from code, written under incredibly tight constraints – such as a maximum file size of 64k – and captured from real-time playback. "This work has to be seen to be believed," says Smith. "It's visually creative and inspiring, while technically unbelievable." ■ CGW ■ CLOCKWISE from top: Dell, Thomas: Bjoern Ruehmann (MPC) Square: Thomas Mann (Still) Gran Via: Jorge Blanco (Ilion Animation Studios) CG W July / August 2013 ■ 35