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# SMC alum meets success
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smc-alum-meets-success/
- Published: 2006-07-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T19:04:47.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*Cartoons aren’t just for kids.*

*By Daily Press staff*

“Robbit,” an animated short made by Yukio Okuno, 41, was named runner-up in the British Academy of Film & Television Arts’ 2006 Student Film Awards. Okuno made “Robbit” in spring 2005 when he was a student in Santa Monica College’s Academy of Entertainment & Technology. “Robbit” is an animated love story that runs two minutes and 50 seconds.

The awards were presented for films made in 2005\. All together, six films won awards in the competition. Okuno was the sole representative of SMC, as all the other winners were by students at USC, the American Film Institute or the Los Angeles Film School.

Okuno is originally from Osaka, Japan, where he worked as a video producer. He is currently studying computers at a private school in Los Angeles, and plans on going into 3-D animation. Get well, now

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 26, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/072606.pdf?ref=smdp.com)