24FPS2012
Digital Arts
at Dartmouth College
Design a 3D-Printable Pet Monster
"MakerBot teams up with 3D Artist in a unique character design challenge where the winner will receive a fully-assembled Thing-O-Matic 3D printer worth $2,500!" Thanks to Xiaolu for the link.
Inventing the Book Properly
The Literary Platform hosts an international competition inviting creatives to produce an animation that illustrates a rare and prophetic audio recording of Douglas Adams talking in 1993 about the Evolution of the Book. Deadline April 15th.
Rushes Soho Shorts Festival
Submissions to the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival are now open. The deadline is May 4.
February Film Competitions
Submissions to the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards are now open.
Celebrating the best in online video, the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards are jam-packed with new judges, new categories, and new monies — $5,000 grants for category winners and one $25,000 grand prize.
Submission deadline is Feb 20. There is a category for animation.
The Annecy 2012 competition is also accepting entries until the 15th of February.
Celebrating the best in online video, the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards are jam-packed with new judges, new categories, and new monies — $5,000 grants for category winners and one $25,000 grand prize.
Submission deadline is Feb 20. There is a category for animation.
The Annecy 2012 competition is also accepting entries until the 15th of February.
Digital Tutors Contests and Challenges
Digital Tutors has a competition every one or two months that makes for a good fun way to practice your digital skills with the online community. The competition for Nov/Dec 2011: Game on! Model and texture an inventory item from your favorite game.
Neukom "Seeing Science" Competition
Advances in video production and scientific visualization are among the most exciting and noteworthy outcomes of the progress that has been made in computational science. Whether it is the immersive environments of “Avatar,” the ubiquity of high quality video capture on even the smallest of devices, or the visualization of complex mathematical, physical, and biological phenomena, computational science has enabled us to see things as we have never seen them before.
With this in mind, The Neukom Institute is delighted to announce the new “Seeing Science” competition, open to all Dartmouth students (undergraduate and graduate) to promote visual approaches to science understanding:
Rules:
- Video entries must be received by March 15, 2012.
- Contestants must be enrolled students at Dartmouth College.
- Video entries can be any length.
- It goes without saying, this must be your own work but up to four students may collaborate on an entry.
- They must either explain or illuminate some scientific idea
- OR be obviously inspired by some scientific idea (e.g., the movie "Pi")
- OR serve as an application/illustration of some new idea that could make possible an interesting advance in visualization/video production.
(Note that the explanation of scientific idea might very well be completely expository and hopefully, highly creative in nature-- i.e., have fun with it!)
Prizes: 1st Place -- $1,000, 2nd Place -- $750 (two awards), 3rd Place -- $500
All videos will be featured on the Neukom website and the Neukom playlist on the Dartmouth YouTube channel.
Email questions to Dan Rockmore.
