PRESS RELEASE
Reallusion Hosts the 48-Hours International Live Animation Contest
For Students to Win up to US$10,000 Cash Prize
San Jose, CA March 30th 2016 – The ASIAGRAPH Reallusion Award 2016 hosted by Reallusion Inc, a real-time 3D & 2D animation company, officially kicks off this month. The qualification round submission ends in May, and the finalists will be invited to Taiwan to participate in the final 48-Hours live contest. The event welcomes students from all around the world to join and win up to US$10,000 in cash prizes.
48-Hours Final round will be held in Taiwan in August
The ASIAGRAPH Reallusion Award is well-known for its 48-Hours Live Animation contest, which has been running since 2013. Reallusion's CEO Charles Chen commented- "We have been hosting this unique, global contest for 4 years. It has pioneered an instant animation trend with help from the latest real-time animation technology from iClone and CrazyTalk, which saves users up to 90% of time when creating an animated film from scratch."
First ever 48-Hours Live Qualification Round will be held in Japan & Malaysia
The ASIAGRAPH Reallusion Award is one of the biggest activities for ASIAGRAPH, which started from 2010 and was greatly welcomed by professors and college students in China, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Thailand.
Last year, it attracted 340 teams that participated in a qualification round, with 20 teams from 6 countries to enter the final contest. In 2016, Reallusion increased the award for the competition while opening it for students from all around the world. There are four categories for the contest which include; 2D & 3D animations for both school and University students.
Due to the success of these live contests, Japan and Malaysia will now hold the 48-Hour Live qualification round as well. The Japan and Malaysia country round will be held from May 27th to May 29th at the Digital Hollywood campus in Tokyo. Two winning teams will then be selected from the Japan and Malaysia round to participate in the final 48-Hours Live contest from August 23rd to the 26th 2016 in Taiwan.”
About Reallusion:
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Reallusion is a leader in the development of 3D cinematic animation tools for consumers, students and professionals. Recognized as an industry pioneer, the company provides consumers with easy-to-use avatar animation, facial morphing and voice lip-sync solutions for real-time 3D filmmaking and previsualization for professional post-production. Reallusion's core technologies are widely used by consumers, educators, gamers and filmmakers to ready their desktop and mobile devices with a total real-time animation studio that plugs-in to the gamer mentality with videogame-like play-to-create technology. Professional content developers equip their studios with Reallusion technology to streamline production efforts to match the lightspeed demands of animation. In addition to software for PC, Mac and mobile devices, Reallusion is a trusted digital imaging and mobile 3D development partner to Brother, Panasonic, Nikon and Skype with embedded applications in leading consumer devices worldwide.
For more information, visit www.reallusion.com.
