ExpoTees awards
Celebrating students' achievements
The awards take place after the ExpoTees exhibition and prizes include fantastic internship opportunities with industry-leading companies.
ExpoTees 2011 award winners
Animation and visual effects award
Sponsored by Framestore CFC
Prize – six month paid internship in London
Awarded for demonstrating excellence within an animation/post production studio environment for example concept design, motion graphics, modelling and texturing and lighting.
Winner - Wei Xing Yong, BA (Hons) Digital Character Animation
Character animation award
Sponsored by Ubisoft
Prize - six month paid internship in Newcastle
For the best character animation sequence realised with 2D or 3D software. The sequence to lasts no longer than 40 seconds.
Winner - TBC
Computer science and networking award
Sponsored by the British Computer Society
Prize - £50 cash prize
Awarded for innovation, research and development in projects encompassing a wide range of topics including programming, devices and systems, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and networking.
Winner - Scott Smallman, BA (Hons) Web and Multimedia
Community and education award
Sponsored by Middlesbrough Football Club
Prize – signed football shirt
Awarded for the development of an innovative product with a beneficial impact for the community or education, demonstrating social awareness.
Winner - Josh Atkinson - BA (Hons) Creative Digital Imaging
Digital creativity award
Sponsored by Codeworks
Prize - one full conference pass to DIBI conference on 7/8 June 2011
Awarded for applying innovation and creativity to the development of digital imagery for a practical application, or for concept art work for a game or animation.
Winner - Adam Turnbull, BA (Hons) Web and Multimedia
Digital music award
Sponsored by Tees Music Alliance
Prize - £100 cash prize
Awarded for demonstrating innovation and creativity in the development of audio material, for example sound effects and musical composition.
Winner - Katherine Smith, BSc (Hons) Music Software Development
Games concept and design award
Sponsored by Ubisoft
Prize - six month paid internship in Newcastle
Awarded for creative excellence in games concept and design through use of storyboarding, interface design and level design.
Winner - Shaun Spalding, BA (Hons) Creative Digital Media
Games programming award
Sponsored by Ubisoft
Prize - six month paid internship in Newcastle
Awarded for the best example of the art of programming for the creation and control of a real-time games sequence or demo.
Winner - Josh Heyde, BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming
IT service management award
Sponsored by Pink Elephant
Prize - £50 cash prize
Awarded to a student for the most effective application of IT service management principles in a computing project.
Winner - Andrew Simpson, BSc (Hons) Computing and Networks
Modelling award
Sponsored by Ubisoft
Prize - six month paid internship in Newcastle
Best and most innovative use of 3D software for the creation of an environment and/or model to support pre-rendered games/animation sequence.
Winner - Matthew Oakley, BA (Hons) Computer Games Art
Pitch award
Sponsored by CBeebies
Prize – Two weeks work experience in the CBeeies Salford offices (accommodation and travel expenses covered by CBeebies)
For the best pitch of material created as part of a third year final project. The material being pitched does not necessarily have to appeal to a CBeebies audience and other audiences will be considered. The pitch must show clarity of concept, presentation style, suitability and appeal for its proposed target audience.
Winner - Chris Walter , BA (Hons) Creative Digital Media
Short film award
Sponsored by ARC Stockton Arts Centre
Prize – 12 month cinema pass and screening opportunity
Awarded for demonstrating excellence in film theory and production.
Winner - Andrew Tonta, BA (Hons) Digital Character Animation
The Sage emerging web technologies award
Sponsored by SAGE
Prize – six month paid internship in Newcastle
Awarded for demonstrating exceptional ability in the development of an innovative web application using emerging web technologies.
Winner - David Robert Elliott, BSc (Hons) Computer Science
Web design and development: commerce award
Sponsored by VisualSoft
Prize - six month paid internship in Middlesbrough (three available)
Awarded for demonstrating innovation in web commerce or business-to-business applications.
Winner - John Levett, BSc (Hons) Web Development
Web design and development: social networking award
Sponsored by Better Brand
Prize - flip HD video camera
Awarded for demonstrating innovation in the development or enhancement of a social networking tool.
Scott Smallman, BA (Hons) Web and Multimedia
