UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS SCHOOL
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COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS COMPUTER GRAPHICS
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Oscar Nominated Short Films through the Lens of OpenGL July 2017
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Course Professors: Prof. T. Panayiotopoulos themis.panayiotopoulos3@gmail.com
Dr. A. G. Lazaropoulos AGLazaropoulos@gmail.com
Cover Design: Charalampos Andreolas and Souat Rousian divinedlink90@yahoo.gr and suatb.d@hotmail.com
Introduction This Art Book synthesizes a set of distinguished semestral works of the Undergraduate Students of the Informatics Department / University of Peiraeus that attended the Computer Graphics Course in 2017. The goal of their semestral works was to artistically approach the visual result of some of the most well-known Oscar nominated short films. To do so, their only programmatistically available tools were the OpenGL environment and the related graphic commands. Here, captions of the Students’ works are demonstrated as well as their personal details including their emails. This Art Book may act as a validation of Leonardo DaVinci’s famous quote:“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication”
Feast Patrick Osborne 2014 / USA / 7m Proving that the Academy is made up of dog lovers, Feast has a dog life at the centre of its story ,
1676 lines of OpenGL code Panagiota Thomopoulou penyamy@gmail.com
Dimitrios Tzilivakis jimmyst@hotmail.gr
Based on his experience in Disney's Oscar-winning short animation “Paperman�, Osborne presents the life upsets of Winston that is a dog living on the street until it is taken in by a couple who works at a restaurant
Paperman John Kahrs 2012 / USA / 6m Paperman describes a love story that has to be told. The man of the picture who has a brief encounter with a woman understands that she works in the office block opposite him
2809 lines of OpenGL code Marinos Giakoumatos gmgiakoumatos@gmail.com
Charalampos Daditsos daditsos1@gmail.com
The story tries to transmit the man’s anxiety to get her attention. Does he finally manage to meet her?
Tango Zbigniew Rybczynski 1981 / Poland / 8m Tango remains one of the all time favourite Oscar nominated short films due to its simplicity of presentation and plot
7611 lines of OpenGL code George Makaroglou geomak13@yahoo.gr
Minas Dioletis minasdioletis@gmail.com
The whole story takes place in a sole room. Hilarious events take place inside this room
The events are repeated and overlap each other. An important artistic issue of Tango is Rybczynski’s beautiful lomographic photography style
3868 lines of OpenGL code Nikoletta Michopoulou n.michopoulou@hotmail.com
Domna Mpilika domnabilika@gmail.com
This unique photography style of Tango has inspired different Students’ artistic approaches
House on Little Cubes Kunio KatĂ´ 2008 / Japan / 12m House on Little Cubes won the Oscar in 2009. This short animation film describes the struggle of an old man to survive
3203 lines of OpenGL code Dimitra Voili dimitravoil@hotmail.com
Ilias Nikolaos Pilatos nikkolai259@gmail.com
The man of the film copes with his town flood that forces him to reconstruct his house
In order to resist and stay dry, the man adds levels onto his home. The film surprise begins with the drop of the man’s favorite pipe into the water
3459 lines of OpenGL code Despina Papadimitropoulou despoiniw@gmail.com
Marios Portokalis portomarios@gmail.com
The man’s attempt to find his pipe by scuba-diving prompts makes him to relive scenes from his past
Surely, this short animated film is weepy while the feeling that is left to the spectator resembles to that of reading the famous Hemingway’s short novel “The Old Man and the Sea”
6395 lines of OpenGL code Charalampos Andreolas divinedlink90@yahoo.gr
Souat Rousian suatb.d@hotmail.com
Among 43 semestral works, the works of this Art Book have been recognized for their excellence by the Course Professors
References [1] http://www.filmsshort.com/festivalwinners/Oscar-Winners-Animations-1.html#.WQg96FXyhhE