Have fun watching the winner of the Siggraph 2017 “Best in Show” Award 🙂

“SONG OF A TOAD” is the story about a stressed out human being who is carrying his unbeloved childhood right on his head – an old choleric toad. As a prisoner of his own grown-up situation, he tries to ignore this grumpy childhood talking from above, but one day he is confronted with something he almost forgot.

Team:
Director, Story: Kariem Saleh
Producer: Alexandra Stautmeister
Toad Voice: Andreas Mannkopff
Svobodan Voice: Benjamin Hille
Psychiatrist Voice: Gerald Friese
Dialogue-Script: Robert Martin, Kariem Saleh
Design: Jelena Walf
Art Direction: Silke Finger
Music: ”Paradox Paradise” John Guertler, Lars Voges, Jan Miserre, Tomas Svensson
Sound Design: Dominik Kostolnik
Additional Sound Design / Mischung: Laura Schnaufer
Voice Recording: Dominik Kostolnik, Ana Monte, Denis Elmaci
Animation: Kariem Saleh, Ringo Klapschinsky, Anna Habermehl, Sveta Yuferova, Jessica Tegethoff Lighting, Shading, Rendering: Vincent Ullmann
Compositing: Silke Finger, Vincent Ullmann, Matthias Bäuerle, Florian Greth
3D-Modeling: Kariem Saleh, Meike Müller, Martin Grötzschel, Marco Hakenjos, Daniel Kannegiesser, Guillermo Molina
Texturing: Dominic Eise, Gero Eckhard, Natalia Alencar, Manolya Kuelkoeylue, Michaela Gote
Rigging: Sascha Langer
Additional Rigging: Helmuth Kriegseisen, Jessica Tegethoff, Hanna Binswanger
Pipeline-TD: Vincent Ullmann, Martin Minsel
Simulation: Vincent Langer
Puppeteering-Device: Florian Greth
Puppeteering-Software: Amit Rojtblat
Miniature Set Building: Valentin Kemmner, Alireza Hashempour, Silke Finger, Shadi Adib, Sophie Rekasowski, Thomas Sali
Photogrammetry: Vincent Ullmann, Timm Wagener, Christian Scheunert, Vincent Langer, Fabian Fricke, Yafes Sahin
English Subtitles: Robin Weber

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