NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival
June 21st, 2009
St. Louis, MO — NewGround, a leading international design and implementation firm serving the financial services industry, announced today they are hosting a short film festival contest to showcase aspiring film directors’ views on “This is NewGround”.
It’s easy to participate. Anyone can submit an entry…employees, vendors, clients, family members, the general public, etc. The top five short films will be selected and viewed before a live audience on May 6, 2009 at Chesterfield’s YMCA Community Theatre. And the best part, contest winners will be awarded a Director’s salary of $1,000 (this salary is for the director and team/cast). Second and third places will be awarded an aspiring Director’s salary of $500 and $250. All contest entries will be available for everyone to view on YouTube.com.
If you think you have what it takes to be the next Martin Scorsese, or you secretly aspire to be like Stephen Spielberg, then let NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival be your big break. Gather your crew, bring out the story-boards, and start filming!
PDF of NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival Submission Guidelines
PDF of NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival Submission Form
For more details, please contact Kevin Dulle at kdulle@newground.com or 636-898-8109.
Topics: Ad, Art, Camera, Contest, Description, Design, Details, Entries, Film, Newground, Short, Short Film Festival, Short Films, St. Louis, Submission Form, Submission Guidelines, YouTube
Hugo Graphic Design Contest
May 25th, 2009
Entry deadline is 11:59 PM, PST – June 30, 2009.
Hugo Boss is asking for submissions from design fans, professionals, and students for concept ideas for its Hugo Create contest. Hugo Boss specializes in fragrance products for men and women.
The competition selects 10 winners from each contest round. One winner from the group will have their artwork published in the international urban magazine, i-D. All winners receive a $500 cash award. Other winning designs will be painted on New York building walls during the month of September.
The Hugo Create contest wants advertising poster designs that feature the HUGO Man bottle. The contest theme is “Summer Time.” Examples for this theme are favorite holiday moments, travel locations, or outdoor activities.
All visuals must be submitted electronically as RGB or JPEG files no larger than 500kb. Illustration, photography, painting, or any other medium applicable for visual design is acceptable.
The final format used to publish visuals on the Hugo Boss website is 672 pixels wide by 960 pixels high. Submissions can be in portrait or landscape orientation. If your entry is selected as a winner and is in landscape mode, you will need to turn in a version that is in portrait format.
Entries are judged on the most daring, expressive, and clever designs. Judges will be taking into consideration the uniqueness, quality, wit, and product relevance of submissions.
The deadline for this contest round is June 30, 2009. For the official contest rules, click here. For more information, the official entry form, and other contest materials, go to the official website by clicking here.
Topics: Ad, Advertising, Art, Art, Artwork, Building, Competition, Contest, Contest Theme, Design, Design, Entries, Events, Fragrance Products, Graphic Design Contest, Hugo Boss, Hugo Create, Illustration, New York, Photography, Submissions, Summer Time
YouTube Shorts by Joaquin Baldwin
May 24th, 2009
The National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Cannes Short Film Corner and partner YouTube, welcomes you to this NFB competition, now in its fifth year.
Director: Joaquin Baldwin
Running Time: 4’06
Country: U.S.A.
Category: Drama
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
Joaquin Baldwin is an Annie Award nominee director and animator from Paraguay. Living in Los Angeles, he is now finishing his MFA in animation at UCLA. He has received over 50 international awards for his animated films Sebastian’s Voodoo and Papiroflexia, and also several grants including the Jack Kent Cooke full Graduate Scholarship in 2006.
Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.
To see a higher-resolution version go to http://www.pixelnitrate.com
Created by Joaquin Baldwin at the UCLA Animation Workshop, 2007. Original Score written by Nick Fevola.
Topics: Animation, Art, Art, Canada, Cannes, Film, International Awards, Los Angeles, National Film Board, National Film Board of Canada, UCLA, Video, YouTube
Seriously Beautiful Personal Project!
April 30th, 2009
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
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Project info @ http://vimeo.com/channels/keithloutitssydney
This is a personal project that is truly amazing. This film is 100% ‘real’, but there are some new techniques for the author here, such as using time lapse to create the illusion of forward movement for the helicopter ocean scenes. These flight sequences would not be possible without the skill and patience of Chief Pilot Peter Yates. Thanks also to Trevor Cracknell (for getting wet!) and Family.
Topics: Art, Clip, Experimental, Film, Flight Sequences, Forward Movement, Helicopter, Illusion, Lapse, Ocean Scenes, Personal, Personal Project, Project, Technique, Time, Time Lapse, Video, Vimeo
John Maeda: My Journey in Design, from Tofu to RISD
March 11th, 2009
Love seeing this… gives me hope & reminds me how little i know.
Topics: Advertising, Art, Design, Design, John Maeda, Journey, Love, RISD, Serious Play, Talk, TED Partner Series, TEDtalks, Video, YouTube
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