While Simpals Studio introduced everyone to the new social sketches “The Ocean” and “The Harvest”, the cartoon “ARIPI” continued to attend the world festivals and brought home two new awards.
The first award is for the “Best 3D Film” nomination at the Khem Animation Film Festival (KAFF) in the USA. KAFF is an independent international innovative storytelling contest featuring many talented filmmakers.
The second award is for the “Best Animated Film” nomination at the Kiev International Film Festival (KIFF). This is a very young film festival. Although it has been held since 2017, it is unique by the fact that filmmakers from all over the world can present their works. At the same time, there are no restrictions on genres and subjects at KIFF.
But that’s not all! Also, the cartoon “ARIPI” successfully passed the competitive selection of the Siggraph Asia 2020 festival. This is the most significant festival in the field of computer graphics and interactive technologies. Because of the pandemic, the screenings will be held online, but we are not upset, since a VR cartoon should feel very comfy in virtual space. So, from December 4 to December 13 everybody in our team will be keeping their fingers crossed!
Our cartoon “Aripi” is the first Moldovan project to appear on the world’s most popular online service for the sale of computer games and software.
On November 8, Simpals Studio launched the VR version of the cartoon “Aripi” on Steam. And we’re so happy about it! Now viewers will be able to not only watch the
We have mentioned earlier that the ARIPI animation entered the list of top five winners of a famous German film festival and that it shall participate in the finals. Well, all Lichter VR Storytelling Award screenings were over on April 26, and… we won!
The jury chose the APIRI as the best VR animation! Seems that
We’d like to share some news with you. The Gässli Film Festival has just come to an end. This is an international short film festival taking place in Switzerland. Every year, the best works in seven different categories are selected. This year the cartoon “Aripi” obtained one of the awards. We won the “Innovative Storytelling” nomination,