A CG sci-fi feature and a 2D toon from Australia ended the Ottawa Animation Festival on a high note, taking two of the fest’s top prizes. The end of the OIAF saw Terra, a U.S. feature from director Aristomenis Tsirbas and Snoot Entertainment, win the fest’s grand prize for best animation, while Aussie Dennis Tupicoff walked off with the Nelvana prize for best indie short for his 25-minute Chainsaw.

OIAF marked the first wins for Terra, which has been making the festival rounds since last year, playing TIFF and Tribeca, and is due at a sci-fi fete next month in London. It features the voices of Brian Cox, Luke Wilson and Dennis Quaid.

Honorable mention in that category went to Sita Sings the Blues, directed by Nina Paley. Chainsaw also won best narrative short under 35 minutes.

Top Canadian honors, meanwhile, and the Canadian Film Institute’s prize, went to Drux Flux – a four-minute experimental piece by the National Film Board’s Theodore Ushev, which made its debut at OIAF.

Other winners include: I Slept With Cookie Monster by Kara Nasdor-Jones, which took the grand prize for best student animation; and the Sony Bravia spot ‘Play-Doh’, directed by Brits Frank Budgen and Darren Walsh, which won the grand prize for best commissioned animation.