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Distinguished Jury selects international winners of first Sci-An Awards

Guiyang, Guizhou China (PRWEB) September 10, 2009 -- Mr. Liuyi Wang, Secretary General of The 1st Annual International Scientific Animation Awards and Forum (ISAAF) held in Guiyang, China, last month, announced the winners of this year's "Sci-An" Awards at the opening of the first International Scientific Animation Forum held in the People's Republic of China.

The event honored the extraordinary imagination and creativity of those transposing scientific concepts and conclusions into renderings of reality that reflect our unseen world.

Finalists from Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Thailand were in competition with pieces created for CNN, HBO, National Geographic, Bristol Meyer's, and some of America's top medical animation companies for awards in only four categories; Physical Science, Natural Science, Children's Education, and Honorable Mention.

This year's Sci-An Awards went to:

Natural Science - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, USA
for its comprehensive 3D animation of changing global conditions in "Global Warming".

Physical Science - NUCLEUS MEDICAL ART, USA
for their detailed and nuanced 3D animation of human birth in "Birth and Complications".

Children's Education - JESTER INTERNATIONAL, Taiwan
for their informative and cartoon-like depiction of healthy bacteria on a child's arm fighting-off external pathogens for early primary school in "Oh! Bacteria".

Honorable Mention was awarded to JANNIS PRODUCTIONS - USA
for their complex and sophisticated rendering of bioactivity in the human brain at different stages of Alzheimer's, in HBO's special series "The Alzheimer's Project".

An international jury of the field's American pioneers and cutting edge producers of today's advanced 3D scienti
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