VES Award for Popcorn Film

The 2011 FMX trailer “a.maize”, created at the Filmakademie’s Animation Institute, has received a VES Award in Los Angeles.
A large pile of white foam in front of a historic building under a blue sky.

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In the film, giant corn kernels in Stuttgart city centre turn into popcorn; the work received the VES Award in the category "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project".

The three prize-winners Falko Paeper, Roman Kaelin and Florian Wittmann, who study at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction, comment on the film’s plot as follows: "The idea for the film grew out of our curiosity about people’s reactions when they are suddenly confronted with something new and unusual".