I’ve taken quite a long hiatus from entering video contests after not making the finals, or placing, in about one dozen contests last year. The whole crowdsourcing and contest-entering thing can get pretty old pretty quick. It’s great practice but I definitely needed a break and scale back how many I was entering.
But, with some new knowledge acquired during my short time at Vancouver Film School so far, I wanted to try out a few things. The first contest I entered recently was for Dairy Queen. Unfortunately, I did not make the finals in that one, but I’m getting fairly accustomed to that at this point.
A quick update on school is that I am about halfway through the program and am storyboarding out my final animation piece that I will spend the next 6 months creating. My inspiration for my animation has been the work Meindbender studios has done, as well as the short ‘For the Birds,’ and the short film created from a children’s book “The Gruffalo” (among many others).
The vending machine and all the cups that come spilling out of it were all created in 3D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MNGYZ3OTFY
The most recent contest I did was all 3D animation. So it was good practice to see a project from start to finish (while still trying to keep up with school work). I did everything, modeling, lighting, animating, compositing, sound, etc. The winners of this contest will be announced in one week:
http://tongal.com/work/1ghcuf?sc=wj0t