TV series Zeke’s Pad took home top animation prizes at the third annual Elan Awards, which honor achievements in video games, animation and visual effects.
Tom Kenny, who hosted the awards ceremony in Vancouver, Canada, also was honored with an award for best voice over performance for his work on SpongeBob SquarePants, while Disney/Pixar’s WALL’E won the best animated feature honor.
The full list of winners follows.
ANIMATION AWARDS
Best Feature Length Animated Production
WALL’E
Disney / Pixar
Best Animated Television Production
Zeke’s Pad
My Pad Prod’s / Avrill Stark Entertainment; Bardel Entertainment Inc. / Flying Bark Productions
Delna Bhesania, Producer; Liz Scully, Producer; Leonard Terhoch, Producer; Avrill Stark, Producer
Best Animated Short Subject
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (intro cinematic)
Blizzard Entertainment
Jeff Chamberlain, Director; Phillip Hillenbrand, Producer
Best Director for an Animated Production
Wapos Bay: The Series
Wapos Bay Studio National Film Board of Canada
Dennis Jackson,Director; Melanie Jackson, Director; Cam Lizotte, Director
Best Voice Over in an Animated Production (All genres)
Tom Kenny
Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants
Best Character Animation
Toot & Puddle
Mercury Filmworks / National Geographic Kids Entertainment
Graham MacDonald, Animation Director; Emma Gignac, Animation Director; Kim Buck, Animation Supervisor; Justin Sels, Animation Supervisor
Best Art Direction
Zeke’s Pad
My Pad Prod’s / Avrill Stark Entertainment; Bardel Entertainment Inc. / Flying Bark Productions
Zoe Evamy, Senior Art Director; Patricia Atchison, Art Director
STUDENT AWARDS
Best Student Video Game
Deguiyu
Bryant DJ Davey, Xbox Director; Su Yon Sohn, Web Presence Director; Liam Kelly, Support Masters of Digital Media, Centre for Digital Media, Vancouver BC.
Best Student Animated Production
Snared
Shane Plante, Algonquin College Animation Program, Ottawa ON
Best Visual Effects in a Student Project
Space Bar
George Kyparissous, Lost Boys Learning, Comox BC
VISUAL EFFECTS
Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effect Driven Feature Film
The Embassy VFX, Inc. / Ironworks Prod’s; Marvel Studios / Paramount Pictures
Iron Man
The Embassy’s Winston Helgason, Visual Effects Supervisor; Charlie Bradbury, Visual Effects Producer; Stephen Pepper, Compositing Supervisor; Michael Blackbourn, CG Lead
Best Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series, Miniseries or MOW
Bartleby Co. and The Halcyon Co. in assoc. with Warner Bros. Televisions
Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Jim Lima, VFX Supervisor; Steve Galich, SFX Coordinator
Best Visual Effects in an Independent/Short Film
Pix Ray VFX / Gloryous Production, 2.8 Pictures
Rock Garden: The Love Story
Andrew Szerszen, VFX Supervisor; Guy Gatenby, Lead Matte-Painter; Michael MacInnis, Lead Composer
Best Visual Effects Shot
Spin VFX / 20th Century Fox
Max Payne
Jeff Campbell, VFX Supervisor; Eric Doiron, Compositing Supervisor; Mark Schreiber, Lead Animator; Tim Sibley, Lead FX TD
Best Digital Environment
Spin VFX / 20th Century Fox
Max Payne
Jeff Campbell, VFX Supervisor; Eric Doiron, Compositing Supervisor; Mark Schreiber, Lead Animator; Tim Sibley, Lead FX TD
Best Animated Character
MPC / Walt Disney and Walden Media
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Greg Fisher, Animation Supervisor; Peta Bayley, Lead Animator; Julio del Rio Hernandez, Lead Animator; Tom Reed, Head of Rigging
VIDEO GAME AWARDS
Video Game of the Year
Left 4 Dead
Valve
Best Console Game
Fallout 3
Bethesda Softworks
Todd Howard, Game Director; Emil Pagliarulo, Lead Designer & Writer; Gavin Carter, Lead Producer
Best PC Game
Left 4 Dead
Valve
Best Casual/Arcade Game
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst
Big Fish Games
Pat Wylie, Adrian Woods, Chris Campbell, Producer
Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
1st Playable Productios/Disney Interactive
Tobi Saulnier, Founder & CEO, 1st Playable Productions; Zhenelle Falk, Producer/ Designer; Andrew Carroll, Lead Programmer; Ian McConahey Stead, Lead Artist
Best Sound in a Video Game Prod’n
Mike Larson, Audio Director; Steve Jablonsky, Composer; Jamey Scott, Sound Designer; Joey Kuras, Sound Designer
Epic Games, Microsoft
Gears of War 2
Best Art Direction
Istvan Pely, Lead Artist
Bethesda Softworks
Fallout 3
Best Game Design
Gabe Newell
Valve
Left 4 Dead
Outstanding Technical Innovation
Gabe Newell
Valve
Left 4 Dead
