(notably those featuring airships) are entirely computer-rendered 3D scenes using an assemblage of parts from a variety of commercial 3D models of vehicles and ships in the Despona 3DS Max series, textured and animated using 3DS Max. The final product consists of all of these elements brought together using the compositing program Combustion (software). Combustion added the particle effects for smoke and similar, while cloud layers in certain scenes were rendered using Maya. Awards Nominations Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, 2006. Wins Australian Film Institute Awards, best short animation, outstanding achievement in craft in a non-feature, Production Design, 2005 IF Awards. Winner, Digital Pictures IF Award for Best Animation Flickerfest 14th International Short Film Festival 2005Yoram Gross Best Animation Award Audioloc Sound Design Award for Best Achievement in Sound The 29th Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France 2005 – Le Cristal d’Annecy – Grand Prix Court Métrage Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada 2005 – The C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Award for Best Animated Short Film Dendy Awards for Australian Short Film, Sydney 2005 – The 2005 Yoram Gross Best Animation Award Sicaf Film Festival, KOREA 2005 – Special Jury Prize Dragon Con –Sci Fi USA, 2005 – First Place Animated Fantasy and Science Fiction: Best of Fest award, Best Animated Short. Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, USA, 2005 – Runner up Jury Award Valladolid International Film Festival, 2005 – 50th Anniversary Prize ATOM Award, Melbourne 2005 – Best Short Animation Festival Selections Fantoche International Animation Festival, Baden, Switzerland Feile Bochan, Kilkenny Ireland Ottawa International Animation Festival '05, Canada Athens International Film Festival, Greece Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival 2005 14th Brisbane International Film Festival 2005 Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK 2005 Imago 2005, Portugal Animadrid, Spain Cardiff, Wales UK Buster, Copenhagen Leipzig, Germany Wiesbaden, Germany Redcat, Los Angeles Les Nuits Magiques, France L’Etrange, France Wessembourg, France Montreal, Canada Chang-Sha, China PISAF, Korea Asiana, Korea Golden Horse, Taipei Best of Short Films Festival in La Chiotat, France Cinanima, Portugal Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, San Sebastian, Spain Tollywood, Best of Annecy, Tokyo FIFM – Festival international de films de Montréal Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, Germany International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film I Castelli Animati, Italy InDPanda International Short Film Festival, Hong Kong References External links Short of the Week 2005 short films 2005 films 2000s animated short films APRA Award