Animex Student Animation Awards
The winners and runners up for the Animex Student Animation Awards were announced at Animex Talk! by Tom Martinek of Industrial Light and Magic, Rachelle Lewis of DreamWorks and Marc Craste of Studio AKA on Friday 4 February 2005.

All the winners will screen at the BALTIC, International Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead on the 5 and 6 February 1.30pm – 4.00pm. Sponsors in this year's awards include Adobe, Alias, Apple, Character Animation Technologies, Chromacolour, Corel, Curious Labs, Discreet, Focal Press, Encad, Macromedia, Maxon, NVidia, Philips, Softimage, SUBtv, ToonBoom and Viglen.

Congratulations! The results are as follows :

BEST SHORT ANIMATION AWARD
First Prize: BIRTHDAY BOY by Sejong Park, Megan Wedge, Chris McKeith, James Lee, Adrian Rostirolla, Andrew Gregory
College: Australian Film, Television & Radio School, Australia

3D COMPUTER ANIMATION AWARD
First Prize: OVERTIME by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrie
College: Supinfocom Valenciennes, France

2D COMPUTER ANIMATION AWARD
First Prize: REX STEELE: NAZI SMASHER by Alexander Woo, Mike Brady, Ryan Shore
College: New York University, USA

EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION AWARD
First Prize: TRUGBILD by Agnieszka Kruczek
College: Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany

SOUND FOR ANIMATION AWARD
First Prize: FALL STUDIES 2 by Gabriel Pielke, Andreas Kersting, Oliver Staubi, Sven Bien
College: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

EDITING AWARD
First Prize: OVERTIME
Awarded to: Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrie
College: Supinfocom Valenciennes, France

3D CHARACTER ANIMATION AWARD
First Prize: 9 by Shane Acker, Dave Stienwedel, Eric Olson
College: UCLA Animation, USA

VISUAL EFFECTS AWARD
First Prize: TREIBGUT by Rudiger Kaltenhauser, J Wulfes, N Purzer, Trude Knorl, M Lindenmeyer
College: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

WEBTOON AWARD
First Prize: A RANDOM STICKMAN CARTOON by Philip Askins
College: Stokesley School, UK

3D COMPUTER ANIMATION FOR GAMES AWARD
First Prize: EON – CHAPTER ONE by Johan Borgstrom
College: Goteborg University, Sweden

ANIMATION STILLS AWARD
First Prize: A SLEEP IN THE WILD by Quaik Choon Seng
College: Limkokwing University, Malaysia

NEWCOMER AWARD
First Prize: GHOST STORY by Philip Askins
College: Stokesley School, UK