Heyyy everyone.(its sort of a work-in-progress since its a storyboard and not the actual animation yet)
You might have heard (probably not) of a certain CONTEST going on in the world of animation/music/showbiiiz! Turns out the band radiohead is looking for an animated video for a song on their last album "In Rainbows". The album is already notable for being released on the web first, where the customer chose to pay what he wanted to pay, any price from zero to a number that is less than infinity.
They organized a contest with the website www.aniboom.com to decide who gets to design and create that videoclip theyre looking for.

http://www.aniboom.com/radiohead/

The contest:
Heres how it goes: At first, people send in storyboards and plans to show off their ideas. You can choose any of the songs on the album. A group of judges on aniboom ends up selecting 10 finalists taking into account the rating of their videos and their number of views. These 10 finalists then receive 1000$ to produce a 1-minute fully animated clip of their idea. Off the 1-minute clips submitted, the same group of judges select the five best, and send them to radiohead, who then choose the winner. The winner receives 10 000$ to produce the whole video (and also gets bragging rights for having made a video for the band).

The contest is under way right now, and the initial submission of storyboards ends on april 28th. As of the writing of this, 325 storyboards where submitted. Some are partly animated clips, others are regular storyboards, some simple have text that describe what will be seen on screen as the music plays...

My entry: (click on it to see video)

(ooo screenshot)
Ive made my own entry on the contest, to the song "Bodysnatchers" and im pretty proud of it! (heh heh... frankie that attention whore...) see it here:
http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=200789
it was just submitted yesterday. Took about 6 days of very intense work. Its sort of half a storyboard and half an animation, with some sort-of animated segments. All frames (about 380) are quickly drawn in photoshop with a graphic tablet and then animated in flash. Its probably the most intense work I ever done, by far, and the first time I did anything remotely big that wasn't pixel art (heh heh out of my eleme nt). I'm pretty proud of the result, even if some parts are a little stiff(but thats sort of understandable for a storyboard anyways)
I don't think I can like, actually win this thing, but maybe I could reach finalist.
I was pretty lucky too, because my animation teacher allowed me to just work on my contest entry instead of our regular end-of-semester project, and she would give a mark to the entry instead. It allowed me to go all out on the entry and not have to worry about these heavy school works at all. The final animation will prolly all be in vector art instead of these painted-like images.

But I'm starting to think It was a whole lot of work for nothing, seeing as it seems the top 10 animations are pretty much already set, with crazy amounts of views in the thousands, while I'm still painfully reaching 30 views... And as they're the most popular videos, they get even more exposition, and so goes some sort of vicious circle of popularity... But hey, who knows.

So! Im wondering if anyone else here has made entries for the competition? I know some peeps here are into animation, so... Post your stuff here, and maybe also other videos you might find there that you think are cool. Also, crits and comments about my own entry are appreciated! (also VOTE FOR ME HAR)

(edit): I had forgotten to add a NPA tag to the topic, done now.


Edited by FrankieSmileShow - 12 April 2008 at 11:08am