{"id":25723,"date":"2022-04-04T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/?p=25723"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:51:31","slug":"yang-is-awarded-a-crystal-pillar-in-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/2022\/04\/04\/yang-is-awarded-a-crystal-pillar-in-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang is awarded a Crystal Pillar in Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25724\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/Yang_2022_NATAS_Small-270x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/Yang_2022_NATAS_Small-270x300.png 270w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/Yang_2022_NATAS_Small.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Yang and the Crystal Pillar for\u00a0 College-\u00a0\u00a0Animation\/Graphics\/Special Effects at the 2022 Student Production Awards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nancy Yang &#8217;22 was presented with a\u00a0Student Production Award from the Upper Midwest Emmy<span style=\"position: relative; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">\u00ae<\/span>\u00a0Foundation for her work &#8220;Ee&#8221;, an animated short film.\u00a0Yang received the Crytal Pillar for\u00a0COLLEGE &#8211; ANIMATION\/GRAPHICS\/SPECIAL EFFECTS.\u00a0 Yang is the second Augsburg student to receive an award in this category.<\/p>\n<p>Yang&#8217;s film, &#8220;Ee&#8221;, tells the true story of a young girl who learns to love fishing through fishing adventures with her father.\u00a0 When her father suddenly becomes ill, the girl must face a new reality.\u00a0 Yang created the film in her Documentary Production class.\u00a0 The work combines a documentary story with animated illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>High School and college students from the Upper Midwest Chapter area of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and western Wisconsin area are eligible to submit to the annual awards. The awards recognize outstanding student achievements in video media production. Selected nominees are considered by a jury of professionals who examine content, creativity, and execution.\u00a0 Awards are given out to those who achieve high marks in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the Student Production Awards at <a href=\"https:\/\/midwestemmys.org\/\">MidwestEmmys.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Yang &#8217;22 was presented with a\u00a0Student Production Award from the Upper Midwest Emmy\u00ae\u00a0Foundation for her work &#8220;Ee&#8221;, an animated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":25724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8,112,88],"tags":[127,132,17,31],"class_list":["post-25723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-recognition","category-film","category-news","category-students","tag-animation","tag-nancy-yang","tag-natas","tag-upper-midwest-student-production-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25749,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions\/25749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}