Leviaan Wins FITC Best Animation Award and WorldFest Platinum Remi Award for Visual/Special Effects

It has been an eventful week for everyone at the design-focused production studio Leviathan, and the companys principals are very proud to announce two major award wins. Over this past weekend at the 46thWorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, Leviathans original short film Lilith was honored with the Platinum Remi Award for Visual/Special Effects. Then, at the FITC Toronto Design and Technology Festival on Monday, Leviathans executive creative director Jason White personally accepted the FITC Best Animation Award for the studios sensational Wooden Toy project for Ninja Tune recording artist Amon Tobin.

View the links to the trailer for Lilith and to Leviathan's Wooden Toy video:

http://vimeo.com/51765290 Lilith Trailer

http://vimeo.com/49215075 Wooden Toy

We have an awful lot of people to thank for putting us in the position to earn this recognition from the judges of the worlds longest-running independent film festival, and from the FITC, which covers the future of everything innovative, technical and creative, White began. Across the spectrum of our phenomenal creative partners including V Squared Labs and Red Moon Theater among many others, unbelievably talented and passionate artists and craftspeople, to my fellow principals Chat Hutson and Matt Daly, we are counting a lot of blessings this week. Immense thanks to everyone who has played a part in our success to date, and with this recognition, we are even more inspired to create phenomenal visual experiences.

Since launching in 2010, Leviathans collaborations with agencies, brands and leading filmmakers have rendered scores of sensational projects across all markets and industries and earned award recognition from the Association of Independent Music, Communication Arts Magazine, the AICP, The D Show, The One Club, and the Themed Entertainment Association.

Earlier in his day at FITC, Jason presented his original talk entitled Hyperblender, the collision of art and technology an hour-long presentation discussing vision, our past and future of creating transformative visual experiences. According to feedback from conference organizers and on Twitter, it was one of the most talked-about of the conferences 70 sessions, which drew over 1,200 attendees from around the world over the past three days.

Next, Jason is among the speakers scheduled to present at the very first COLLIDER Digital Production Conference http://colliderevents.com which will run June 9-11 in New York City complete with a job fair and master classes.

More information on Lilith is available at http://lilithfilm.com. To learn more about Leviathan, please visit http://lvthn.com.

About Leviathan

Leviathan is a design-focused production studio specializing in creating large-scale visual experiences across all media. Champions of breakthrough design and branding, Leviathans leaders draw from experiences earned inside leading digital agencies, production companies, VFX and motion studios. Also leveraging the talents of extraordinary designers, technologists, developers and producers, the studio develops and delivers cutting edge content that maximizes the capabilities of todays media platforms. To learn more about Leviathan, please visit http://lvthn.com,.

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