New Five Second Project: Coffee and Triangles

Written by The Gorilla on March 13, 2009 and filed in Inspiration, Motion Design, Video

The new “Five Second” project has been announced. The theme for this week is “Coffee and Triangles.” Use this theme to inspire any short motion project. Ever wanted to try a specific technique or even something just crazy? Now is your chance. Upload the final video to Vimeo and post the link here. I will make a channel with all of the entries.

Need an excuse to make cool shit this week? Well, you just found one.

Check out last week’s project, “Five seconds and Orange.”

UPDATE: One day later and there are already quite a few entries. Check out ALL of the videos at the new Vimeo channel or here below.

58 people have commented on this post. You should too!

  1. Bruno Ferrari says:
    March 13, 2009 at 8:58 am

    yeahhh five seconds and coffee

    OWWNNZZZZZZ

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  2. wiimix says:
    March 13, 2009 at 10:12 am

    sweeeeet. Nick, will you be doing one also?

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  3. The Gorilla says:
    March 13, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Heck yea, I’ll be doing one.

    Reply
  4. Harry Mitchell says:
    March 13, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Maybe you should do your one and then have a tutorial on how you did it ? Dunno just an idea as I loved your first tutoial showing how you made your 5 seconds in orange.

    Reply
  5. Mike Greenberg says:
    March 13, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    I found your site from the presentation video, I’m in love with the level of motivation and this idea takes the cake. Thank You!

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  6. Matt Coughlin says:
    March 13, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    Here is my interpretation of the latest inspirational project.

    http://www.vimeo.com/3637822

    I am super excited that Nick is extending this project/idea to the rest of us. I plan on trying to build a coffee pot in a triangular shape to dive into 3d more.

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  7. Joe says:
    March 14, 2009 at 4:25 am

    I did mine… and here it be:

    http://vimeo.com/3640695

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  9. Omar Muhammad says:
    March 14, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Check it this take on Coffee & Triangles
    http://www.vimeo.com/3649662

    Reply
  10. A3 says:
    March 14, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Hi Nick, it´s great that you´re making this projects. It will help everyone to increase our creativity and skills. Here is my little animation for the project, hope you like it:

    http://www.vimeo.com/3653068

    PS: Can we make more than one animation per project?

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  11. thegorilla says:
    March 14, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    Thanks A3. You can do as many animations as you want. I would love more!

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  12. A3 says:
    March 14, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    Great, I´ll try taking some time this next week to make another one. This projects are going to appear every Friday, right?

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  13. PT says:
    March 15, 2009 at 8:15 am

    playing with my camera and tried to work something magical?

    http://www.vimeo.com/3663082

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  14. thegorilla says:
    March 15, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Yea, A3. Either every week or every OTHER week. I haven’t decided yet. :)

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  15. gus gavino says:
    March 15, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    really digging these projects nick..! great exercises..

    http://vimeo.com/3679755

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  16. Victor says:
    March 16, 2009 at 1:54 am

    Hihihihihi!! Funny project, here it goes, http://www.vimeo.com/3683095

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  19. Maciej says:
    March 16, 2009 at 9:30 am

    All right I can finally upload another HD video on Vimeo.. :D Here’s mine : vimeo.com/3686677

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  21. Dylan Kress says:
    March 16, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Love the idea of these projects Nick. I’m definitely going to be taking part in more of these to come. I had a great time working on this one and I hope you all like it. Check it out.

    http://vimeo.com/3696444

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  22. Mars says:
    March 16, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    I put one up at http://vimeo.com/3704288

    Thanks for the project!

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  23. ZACH B says:
    March 16, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    i posted one up, great project!

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  25. Juan Francisco says:
    March 16, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    here it’s mine http://vimeo.com/3707379
    Hope you like it!

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  28. Benji Ng says:
    March 17, 2009 at 3:19 am

    Here is my Coffee and Triangles Piece. Would love feedback. :)

    http://vimeo.com/3712622

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  30. Andrew Philip says:
    March 17, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Thanks for giving me a reason to get up in the morning. Love the blog; thanks to you I now use Aperture every day.

    http://vimeo.com/3715867

    Reply

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  32. Gladys Bernadac says:
    March 17, 2009 at 10:01 am

    Here’s my five second animation.
    http://vimeo.com/3718602
    Thanks for the motivation!

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  33. Benji Ng says:
    March 17, 2009 at 10:38 am

    I accidently put it on private before…Its viewable now

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  34. Daniel says:
    March 17, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Nice blog, thans for the inspiration, here goes mine http://vimeo.com/3720077

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  35. Zedrik says:
    March 17, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Hi Nick, great blog. Here’s mine:
    http://www.vimeo.com/3720316

    Reply
  37. Charles Agnew says:
    March 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    http://vimeo.com/3729769

    My entry sir!

    Enjoyed making it!!

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  38. Charles Agnew says:
    March 17, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    http://vimeo.com/3730599

    Here the new & final version Nick, apologies for the first one I posted.

    Later,

    C

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  39. hanson says:
    March 18, 2009 at 2:02 am

    hey guys, where do u guys find those nice bg music? i find it difficult to get them

    Reply
  40. Andréa Senise says:
    March 18, 2009 at 9:20 am

    Here’s mine!!

    http://www.vimeo.com/3744769

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  43. Mota says:
    March 18, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Here is my coffee & triangles:

    http://www.vimeo.com/3752849

    sorry for the delay… hope you enjoy ;)

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  44. Jonathan Fulton says:
    March 18, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    Unfortunately, this is my entry.
    http://www.vimeo.com/3755754
    God help us all.

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  45. Ed says:
    March 18, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    Here’s mine:

    http://www.vimeo.com/3756464

    Had fun with this one!

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  46. John says:
    March 18, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    i posted this in the shoutbox and then the wrong video got posted to the channel accidentally so i took it off

    here’s the video

    http://vimeo.com/3732430

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  49. leekid says:
    March 19, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Hi there, here’s my entry…

    http://vimeo.com/3767579

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  50. Sky_ says:
    March 20, 2009 at 5:24 am

    Hello there ! I discovered this blog not so long ago, and decided i could submit something =)
    So here it is : http://vimeo.com/3773930

    Cheers !

    Reply

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  52. will Jimenez says:
    March 20, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Here is mine…
    http://vimeo.com/3767565

    These are great Ideas Thanks man.!!!

    Reply

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