Animation Contest Finalists

January 22, 2007 3:31 PM

Aniboom bills itself as "the home of animation," a place to discover new up & coming artists online. Towards that end, they've sponsored a $50,000 competition for the best animation across five categories. The field has been narrowed to 25 finalists, and all 25 entries are online for viewing/voting here.
posted by jonson (11 comments total)

Thanks for that -- just had time for one, but now I have something to look forward to after work.
posted by dreamsign at 3:48 PM on January 22, 2007

Ta!
posted by pompomtom at 6:19 PM on January 22, 2007

Only watched a few so far, but I'd love to see Bendito Machine on a larger screen.
posted by JaredSeth at 7:19 PM on January 22, 2007

Some of these are really cool. I love Bendito Machine.
posted by substrate at 7:50 PM on January 22, 2007

I was going to post this myself, but didn't because i have a horse in this race: Dancing Animals in Love was made by a good friend of mine. You can watch the follow-up cartoon here.
posted by Bookhouse at 8:00 PM on January 22, 2007

very cool--thanks!
posted by amberglow at 8:13 PM on January 22, 2007

Yeah, Bendito Machine is wonderful - the best 5 minutes I've spent online this week. And Glitch was kinda cool, in a gently vague way. And I love that one of the categories is "Crappy." Thanks, jonson, this is great.

Dancing Animals in Love was made by a good friend of mine.

Ha. That's a fucking creepy hilarious short your friend did, Bookhouse. The follow-up's a little obvious, but looks great. I like your friend's style.
posted by mediareport at 8:20 PM on January 22, 2007

Good stuff. Bendito was a pleasant surprise. I'm trying to do some Flash animation myself, but damn it's hard to get into it. Great inspiration.
posted by rougy at 10:29 PM on January 22, 2007

Bendito (Blessed) Machine direct link
posted by metaplectic at 4:29 AM on January 23, 2007

FWIW, i read that bendito machine was done with anime studio and exported to flash (swf).
posted by kamelhoecker at 8:43 AM on January 23, 2007

Maybe they should spend that $50k on getting more bandwidth.
posted by Dave Faris at 8:53 AM on January 23, 2007