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AoinekoIn 2005, Aoineko's feature film, Fragile Machine, won the 2005 Sedona Film Festival award for Best Animated Film. Kitaru is Aoineko's attempt at one upping that film, originally designed as a feature film, but now being developed as an original 3D game title. In 2001 Aoineko was one of 30 web artists worldwide asked to participate in the Biennal de Valencia art festival in southern Spain . Their submission, subterranean , garnered praise in Spain 's chic art circles and was also exhibited in September of that year at the National Museum of Art in Rome. In 2003 Aoineko was asked by the German art foundation Ars Electronica to submit an original work for that year's Prix Ars festival and competition. Aoineko submitted a six-minute preview edit of “Fragile Machine” to the Taiwanese Future Imprint Animation Competition, sponsored by Acer, and took home an award that made the group especially proud, since much of film's fictional city had been inspired by living in Taiwan in 2002. In 2004 Superelectronic and Sentosa Mikano won the top two awards in Rockstar Games' Upload competition which led to further international interest and exposure. It was through these wins Aoineko came to the attention of french perfume and haute couture designer Thierry Mugler. |
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