Telebites.com Presents the Internet Premiere of BlastOff! An Award-winning 3D Animated Short Film

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DreamLight Launches its First Award-winning 3D Animated Short Film: BlastOff!™ to Rocket Through the International Animation Film Festivals

	To celebrate DreamLight’s twentieth anniversary, DreamLight Interactive has released their first 3D animated short film, BlastOff!™ which has won multiple awards and screened as an Official Selection at over a dozen film festivals. BlastOff! wins a Silver W3 Award from the International Academy of the Visual Arts’ W3 Awards competition in the pioneering category of Web Video - Animation. Receiving over 2,700 entries, The W3 Awards honors outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, and Web Video created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide.
		BlastOff! wins an Official Honoree Webby Award in the category of animation, a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement. Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites.

Film Festival Awards & Official Selection Screenings

• Merit Award - 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival
  K eynote speaker Roy E. Disney, Director Emeritus of The Walt Disney Company & nephew of Walt Disney. Nov. 17-19, 2006
• Best Animation Nomination - Danville International Children's Film Festival
  Dublin, CA, May 18-20, 2007

Film Festival Official Selection Screenings

• Gem City Film Festival - Palatka, Florida - January 19-20, 2007
• Dam Short Film Festival - Boulder City, Nevada - February 8-11, 2007
• Big Damn Film Festival - Minneapolis, Minnesota - February 17-18, 2007
• 10th Ann. East Lansing Children’s Film Festival - Michigan - February 23 - March 1, 2007
• Foursite Film Festival - Ogden, Utah - February 28 - March 3, 2007
• Delray Beach Film Festival - Delray Beach, Florida - March 13-18, 2007
• The Other Venice Film Festival - Venice, CA - March 15-18, 2007
• 31st Annual Cleveland International Film Festival - Cleveland, Ohio - March 15-25, 2007
• San Fernando Valley International Film Festival - North Hollywood, CA - March 16-25, 2007
• Rebel Planet Short Film Festival of Hollywood - North Hollywood, CA - April 20-22, 2007
• Bare Bones International Film Festival - Muskogee, OK - April 23-29, 2007

BlastOff! - A Pilot Webisode for a 3D Animated Web Series

BlastOff! is a pilot for a potential 3D animated web series where each night while a child sleeps in his BlastOff! Bed, his toy alien comes to life and flies through various space adventures. This 3-minute pilot webisode shows the BlastOff! Bed being constructed and its maiden voyage.

BlastOff! tells the story of how the worlds of reality and fantasy easily blend together in the fertile imagination of a young child, especially when supplied with creative toys and environments. The story begins at dawn with a child’s wishful drawing of a space ship. During the day his father builds him a custom designed space shuttle bed and fills his room with toys. As the sun sets, one of the child’s toys, a little green alien, comes to life and is excited pretending to pilot the space ship. As his imagination soon takes over completely, the room fades away and the shuttle bed blasts the little alien out into space for a wild rocket ship ride through the rings of Saturn. The alien finally comes crashing back to reality as the child returns home to find his room is a complete mess.

BlastOff! was inspired by the real BlastOff! Space Shuttle Bed that Michael Scaramozzino designed and built for his son MJ when he was three years old and ready to graduate from his crib into a “big boy’s” bed. The story behind the design and construction of the original BlastOff! Bed was featured on HGTV’s new show Look What I Did!
	The BlastOff! Special Edition DVD includes behind the scenes content on 3D character animation including director & animator commentaries, actual LightWave 3D files of props & sets from the film, and the making of the real BlastOff! Bed, including construction video and high resolution photos as well as a BlastOff! Bed Construction Guide which includes the actual construction plans used to build the original BlastOff! Bed.
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BlastOff! sets the mood for adventure with a superb custom musical score by Adam DiTroia.

For a behind the scenes case study of the production of BlastOff!, don’t miss DreamLight Insight: The Making of BlastOff! An Award-winning 3D Animated Short Film

The DreamLight Insight also includes a full online Press Kit with a print resolution production still gallery.

We’d love to hear what you think of BlastOff!, so please submit a BlastOff! Feedback Form if you have any comments about it at all.

DreamLight Interactive is an award-winning interactive multimedia studio built upon a solid foundation of computer science, design, illustration and animation. DreamLight has been pushing the cutting edge of digital media with twenty years of award-winning projects in a wide variety of computer graphics (CG) fields including 3D Animation & 3D Illustration, Interactive Multimedia & CD-ROM / DVD Development, and GUI Graphical User Interface Design & Web Development.