New 5 Second Project – “Circle Vs. Square”

Written by The Gorilla on March 27, 2009 and filed in Design, Inspiration, Motion Design, Video

Over FIFTY entries in last week’s theme! This week’s theme is “Circle Vs. Square”.

Need an excuse to make something cool this week? Well now is your chance. Use this theme to make a short motion piece and link it in the comments of this blog post. “Shout Box” submissions will not be found and added to the channel. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure me seeing it.

Great work so far on these themes. It’s really great to see so much participation. Don’t forget to push yourself to try something new every week. Always wanted to try a specific technique, idea, or piece of software? Now is your chance to make something new and great. Can’t wait!!!

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  1. Harry Mitchell says:
    March 27, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Hi Nick,

    Here is my Circle V Square Project :

    http://vimeo.com/3887948?pg=transcoded_embed&sec=3887948

    Would love some comments as I am learning :D

    Reply
  2. Jarratt says:
    March 28, 2009 at 1:31 am

    The glory of battle! Keep madly blogging Nick, great stuff.

    http://vimeo.com/3891339

    Reply
  3. Jeremy says:
    March 28, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Just found this site yesterday and I’m super diggin it. Thanks for lifting the veil for us who can’t afford school right now.

    Reply
  6. Jeroen says:
    March 28, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Hey Nick,

    Here’s mine first five seconds!
    http://www.vimeo.com/3895380

    Reply
  7. illd says:
    March 28, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    Can I post a youtube link, too?

    Reply
  8. Jeremy says:
    March 28, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    HERE’S THE VIMEO LINK

    http://www.vimeo.com/3896245

    Reply
  9. Bjorn says:
    March 28, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Hey Nick. Great blog you’ve got going on! Here’s my entry: http://vimeo.com/3902109

    Reply
  10. Matt Coughlin says:
    March 29, 2009 at 5:50 am

    Thanks for including us on these projects. Here is mine. http://vimeo.com/3904603

    Reply
  12. yus says:
    March 29, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    hello everyone…here is mine:
    http://vimeo.com/3908908

    Reply
  13. Andréa S. says:
    March 29, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    Here is mine!!! ^^

    I’m sad I’ve lost the balloonz post… anyway, Its really god to practice afx again. and c4d, in this case.

    Reply
  14. Andréa S. says:
    March 29, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    ooopz… here it is!

    http://www.vimeo.com/3904064

    Reply
  16. alex says:
    March 29, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    hey! hello everyone! great idea nick ! here is my five second
    http://www.vimeo.com/3914914

    Reply
  17. William says:
    March 29, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Hey Nick! First heard about you when you appeared in a fxphd video. Hope you dig my entry.

    http://vimeo.com/3917116

    Reply
  19. Hicham says:
    March 30, 2009 at 12:56 am

    First time trying this, hope it looks ok.

    http://vimeo.com/3917979

    Reply

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  23. Jeremy says:
    March 30, 2009 at 6:59 am

    I can’t stop making these, its amazing how a simple concept like circle and squares could open my noggin like this.

    http://vimeo.com/3920534

    Reply
  28. bugrilhos says:
    March 30, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Hey Nick! This is my first try!

    http://www.vimeo.com/3924555

    Thx!!

    Reply
  30. Karlos Schirmer says:
    March 30, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    This is my first entry.
    http://www.vimeo.com/3928901
    :)

    Reply
  31. jay says:
    March 30, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    my 5 Second Project commitment.
    had a lot of fun trying this, keep it up!

    Reply
  32. Dan says:
    March 30, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    And here’s mine! Thanks, Nick!! Lots of fun, as always :)

    http://www.vimeo.com/3928438

    Reply
  33. bugrilhos says:
    March 31, 2009 at 1:06 am

    Hey nick! Me Again, i’ve tried another approach to the theme. Check it out plz.

    http://www.vimeo.com/3935036

    thaaanx

    Reply
  34. Hicham says:
    March 31, 2009 at 1:48 am

    5 seconds for Sparty
    http://vimeo.com/3935647

    Reply
  35. Erick says:
    March 31, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Circle Vs. Square…used some of the AETuts info…good stuff!
    http://vimeo.com/3942070

    Reply
  36. Mark says:
    March 31, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Circle vs Square.

    http://vimeo.com/3942253

    A bit longer than :05 but worth it!

    Reply
  37. Steph Foster says:
    March 31, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    http://www.vimeo.com/3945519

    My 5 secs worth, Enjoy !

    Reply
  38. erik says:
    March 31, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    Nick,

    Your slow mo stuff is badass. here’s my entry for CvsS
    http://www.vimeo.com/3947534

    Reply
  39. Casey Cobler says:
    March 31, 2009 at 10:12 pm

    vimeo.com/3947034

    Finally did one of these projects!

    Reply
  41. Jeremy says:
    April 1, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Ok, last one.

    http://vimeo.com/3954850

    It’s my favorite, I’m really excited about C4D.

    Thanks Nick

    Reply
  45. Stan Smulders says:
    April 1, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    Here’s my entry:

    http://vimeo.com/3964282

    Reply
  46. ughsassin says:
    April 1, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    http://www.vimeo.com/user1429070/videos

    Awesome idea, this is my first try. Keep it up. Love to see the Cinema 4D things too!

    Reply
  50. Ray Pena says:
    April 2, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    Hi Nick,
    Not sure which comment section I’m supposed to hit up, but here ya go:
    http://www.vimeo.com/3983186

    Reply
  51. Richard Hawkins says:
    April 3, 2009 at 8:20 am

    Hey Nick, here’s my Circle VS Square link:

    http://www.vimeo.com/3984437

    great blog man!

    Reply
  52. Glauco says:
    April 3, 2009 at 8:42 am

    Hi Nick!
    here is my first submission.
    http://vimeo.com/3976056

    Reply
  53. Nejc says:
    April 3, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    Hey!
    Here’s mine, but probably too late :)
    http://vimeo.com/3990878

    Reply
  55. Zedrik says:
    April 3, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Hi Nick, I don’t know if I posted my video at the right place?
    Well, here it is:
    http://vimeo.com/3989936

    Reply
  59. Loy33 says:
    October 22, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    Second Startup: This says it all, but the 20 second start up is just to the login screen. ,

    Reply

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