The winners of the AEAF Awards 2010 are

Commercials Animation - DJ Hero - Framestore

Commercials VFX - Nestle Club – Collider

Flash Animation - Monster Therapy - Sticky Pictures

Games Animation - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Plastic Wax

Titles Idents & Stings - Foxtel Winter Olympics - Cutting Edge

Student - Plastic - Sandy Widyanata AFTRS

Short film - The Lost Thing - Passion Pictures Australia

TV Series - Enyo - Flying Bark Productions

Music Video - Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom - Digital District

Feature Film VFX - Avatar - Weta Digital

Feature Film Animation - How to Train Your Dragon - DreamWorks Animation

We wish to thank all artists who submitted their excellent work to the 2010 Australian Effects & Animation Festival, and we are looking forward to seeing more next year. Thanks also to everyone who attended and showed their support for this event. Keep watching our website for news about entering and participating in 2011.

The work submitted was excellent and spanned all styles and techniques of animation and effects. The many people attending were amazed at the content in our Showreel, which will inspire their work for next year's AEAF. We extend a special thanks to VFX Supervisor Chris White from Weta Digital, who came over from Auckland on behalf of his company's winning entry in the Feature Film VFX category, 'Avatar'.

Following the success of the event and the quality of entries, we are encouraged to expand the scope of the Festival and are now making plans to increase its reach next year. All information will be posted online. We hope that you and your team will start thinking now about projects to submit!

Top row L - R: Producer Avrill Stark (centre) and Animator Michael O'Brien (left) from Flying Bark Productions topped the TV Series category for 'Legend of Enyo'. Ben Malter at Plastic Wax took home the award for best Games Animation for 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'. VFX Supervisor Chris White at Weta Digital attended from New Zealnd to collect the Feature Film VFX award for 'Avatar'.
Bottom row L - R: The crew at Collider earned the Commercials VFX award for their 'Nestle Club' spot. Houdini Specialist Dave Brown at Cutting Edge worked on the Titles winner, the Winter Olympics ident for Foxtel. Director and VFX artist Sandy Widyanata and Script Editor Courtney Wise hold their prize for 'Plastic', best Short Film.