Video Game Character Short Animation Contest – 2019

The website Animation Career Review has another animation contest, this time game themed

Deadline: February 1, 2019. First prize gets $500

Zoo Animal Short Animation Contest

Animation Career Review has another animation contest:

• Zoo Animal Short Animation Contest – 2018

They advice you to watch this video first:

In stead, I you should just head over to there website and read the stuff.

You need to create a new animation to compete. The deadline is well after the end of the semester: 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time on June 30, 2018.

Animtion Contest: Christmas!

Animation Career Review is holding its annual Christmas Holiday Animation Contest. The rules seem reasonable, so if you have time to create another animation...

And yes, that is the music used for Gary's Log.

24 Hour Stop Motion

The 24 hour animation contest this year was won by the Potty Squad group with a stop motion piece called "Caveman Channel"

In the discussion thread that flowed from this on the Hollywood ASIFA animation forum on who teaches Stop Motion (tuns out quite a few schools do and you do not need a lot of space) Nancy Beiman of Sheridan College posted a link to this nice student film:

The Arctic Circle from Kevin Parry on Vimeo.

MetroCAF 2015: September 25

This years showcase of the best student animations from the NYC metro area will premiere on Friday, September 25.

• Details on the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH site

Another chance to attend SIGGRAPH 2015 for free!

SIGGRAPH 2015 just launched the Vine Contest:

Create a Vine film highlighting what SIGGRAPH means, has meant, or will mean to you. Your 6-second film should be creative and embrace the constraints of Vine’s short format, looping and stop-motion capabilities.

Details on the conference website

SIGGRAPH Trailer Contest

An exciting new contest has been announced: create a trailer for SIGGRAPH 2015 - the winner gets a full conference pass!

Details on the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Site

Oscar Short List

Bill Plympton posted the shortlist for the Academy Award for animated sorts on his (and Patrick Smith's) blog, and his "Footrprints" is on it: Oscars Short List

Cover Contest

Anybody interested in creating a cover for an Italian comic? Here is the info:

http://www.medhelangraphicnovel.it/covercontest.htm