Five Second Project – “Hero”

Written by The Gorilla on April 24, 2009 and filed in Ideas, Inspiration, Motion Design

This week’s Five Second Project theme is “Hero”. 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 will not be added to the channel. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure me seeing it.

It’s really great to see so much participation. Tell a friend about the five second projects and get them involved too. Don’t forget to push yourself to try something new every week. What about a new piece of software or technique you have wanted to try?

Bottom line… MAKE COOL SHIT!

Need some more help getting started? Check out my After Effects and Cinema 4D tutorials.

Here are the HERO! projects so far…

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

  1. A3 says:
    April 24, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Great theme for the new project !!!

    Reply
  2. Viktor says:
    April 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Great! I was waiting for a new one.

    Reply
  3. Sibouu says:
    April 24, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    I will try to make something this time ! =D

    Reply
  5. Steph Foster says:
    April 25, 2009 at 7:21 am

    Sock it to me gorilla baby !

    http://www.vimeo.com/4324704

    Reply
  6. gl says:
    April 25, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    Righteous! I have an idea for this one…

    Reply
  7. tonyb says:
    April 26, 2009 at 8:15 am

    my first 5 seconds project…..
    http://www.vimeo.com/4337565
    is it the good way to give you the 5 seconds videos?
    thank you Nick for your tutorials….good website

    Reply
  8. Fabrizio says:
    April 26, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    There goes…
    http://www.vimeo.com/4334466
    Thanks for the tutorials, lots of cool stuff!!!

    Reply
  9. James Wicks says:
    April 26, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Nick, thanks for the challenge.
    Here’s my hero: http://www.vimeo.com/4347513

    Reply
  10. Leon McPherson says:
    April 26, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    very interesting and fun challenge!
    here’s my entry: http://vimeo.com/4348367

    Reply
  11. Jeremy Ian Thomas says:
    April 27, 2009 at 2:47 am

    http://vimeo.com/4350793

    Great concept

    I may have one more in me.

    Reply
  12. Dave Scotland says:
    April 27, 2009 at 4:41 am

    Hey Nick,
    Just happen to have a hero alpha render laying around; it pays to keep those old student project renders…
    http://vimeo.com/4351938
    Started with a alpha of the hero and added some danger elements using CC-Sphere, Shine, Particular, Fractal Noise and 3D layers.
    Enjoy…
    Dave Scotland
    CGSWOT.COM

    Reply
  13. Stefanie Huynh says:
    April 27, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Thanks for doing this weekly thing!
    Here’s mine http://vimeo.com/4360251

    Reply
  14. Jens Arnold says:
    April 27, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Alright, here is my contribution. It was definitely fun to make.

    http://vimeo.com/4362799

    Reply
  15. Jason says:
    April 27, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    My Hero project. These are great exercises Nick, thanks for posting each week.

    Reply
  16. Fabrizio says:
    April 27, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    I have made another one:
    http://vimeo.com/4358019
    Thanks for the comments, for the first one!

    Reply
  20. Jeremy Ian Thomas says:
    April 28, 2009 at 5:15 am

    http://vimeo.com/4371991

    Theme has a lot of avenues to travel on.

    Reply
  21. Espen Jakobsen says:
    April 28, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Not much 3d in mine, but scissors!

    http://vimeo.com/4379395

    Reply
  23. ALGORIDDIM says:
    April 28, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    That’s one small step for me, one giant leap for motion graphics.

    Reply
  26. Bruno Torres Boeger says:
    April 28, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    http://www.vimeo.com/4382809

    first timer here, please go easy on me lol!

    Reply
  27. Daniel says:
    April 28, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    Hey Nick, cool tutorials! Keep up the good work, it’s nice to make part of the GSG community! I was looking for something to explode, so http://www.vimeo.com/4355712! One suggestion: you could talk about rendering in C4D – how to hide an object, how to render only shadows or reflections…

    Reply
  28. erik says:
    April 28, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    won’t be able to make this one. bummer, great theme!

    Reply
  29. Gabriele says:
    April 29, 2009 at 2:35 am

    Hey Nick! No channel this round?

    Reply
  31. thegorilla says:
    April 29, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Thanks ScaryBasement. I also just put a link to the HERO! channel in the post along with a channel widget that shows all the posts as they come in. Great work so far!

    Reply
  32. thegorilla says:
    April 29, 2009 at 10:20 am

    Next time erik? Your stuff has been great. Is this the first one you’ve missed? :(

    Reply
  33. RG says:
    April 29, 2009 at 10:46 am

    Hello, this is my first submission, enjoy.

    http://vimeo.com/4395615

    -rgl

    Reply
  34. huw_caddy says:
    April 29, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    i was playing about with some offcut footage and it somehow turned into this old watery grindhouse-esque vid…

    http://vimeo.com/4397197

    cheers nick!

    Reply
  36. Jeremy Ian Thomas says:
    April 30, 2009 at 1:05 am

    How many days to go?

    I have one more, but its gonna be a long render.

    Reply
  37. Chris J says:
    April 30, 2009 at 2:32 am

    Trying to keep up with you guys…
    http://vimeo.com/4408619

    Reply
  38. Gabriele says:
    April 30, 2009 at 3:02 am

    I started trying a glass’ illumination studio technique onto a 3d model in maya and I ended up with this..

    http://vimeo.com/4408833

    Reply
  39. Guillaume says:
    April 30, 2009 at 5:56 am

    hello, here’s my first participation.
    http://vimeo.com/4410452

    Reply
  40. Galen says:
    April 30, 2009 at 8:24 am

    Here’s my clip. Love the CS Tutorials! Really helpful. Used Ambient Light/Action Cam for this one. Then some film damage effects in AE.

    http://www.vimeo.com/4412174

    Reply
  41. erik says:
    April 30, 2009 at 8:58 am

    Next time for sure, yea first one missed. Just got back from some vaca and trying to catch up from being unplugged for nine days.

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  42. Tobias says:
    April 30, 2009 at 10:13 am

    Hope i´m not to late…

    Here it is:
    http://www.vimeo.com/4413690

    I´m so in for the next one!

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  44. sly says:
    April 30, 2009 at 11:53 am

    A “coucou” from France and here is mine http://www.vimeo.com/4415115
    Thanks for what you do on this blog !!

    Reply
  48. Karpathia says:
    April 30, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    when is the deadline ?

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  50. Gladys says:
    April 30, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    Just making the deadline on this one…eeek! I love the theme this week. Keep em coming!

    Reply
  53. A3 says:
    May 1, 2009 at 12:32 am

    Hi everyone, this is my video:

    http://vimeo.com/4424605

    (The problem is that vimeo has n´t converted it yet… but I suppose I can post the link here in advance)

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  54. Steve says:
    May 1, 2009 at 12:52 am

    Here’s my submission: http://vimeo.com/4424822

    Thanks!!

    Reply
  55. Jeremy Ian Thomas says:
    May 1, 2009 at 1:13 am

    @A3

    Your video is set to private.

    Go into the settings and make sure the privacy is set to public. Inside you video clip at the top right is a cog wheel icon that says settings.

    Happens to the best of us.

    Reply
  56. Felipe Vincensi says:
    May 1, 2009 at 1:42 am

    http://www.vimeo.com/4424823
    The Five Second Project was what I needed to start doing a video haha

    Reply
  57. A3 says:
    May 1, 2009 at 1:48 am

    Vimeo just finished converting my video.. now I can finally go home! hehe. Check it out:
    http://vimeo.com/4424605

    (Leaving the office now… bye)

    Reply
  58. A3 says:
    May 1, 2009 at 1:50 am

    @Jeremy Ian Thomas
    Thanks ! I don´t know how that happened. I fixed it thanks to you!

    Reply

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  62. thegorilla says:
    May 1, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Karpathia: The deadline is tonight at midnight. I will announce a new contest later today.

    Great turn out this week everybody!

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  65. Ryan Housknecht says:
    May 1, 2009 at 11:30 am

    I’ve done it! My first! Let me know what you guys thinks!

    http://www.vimeo.com/4430662

    Thanks!

    Reply

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  67. ScaryBasement says:
    May 1, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    oh man i might not make it in time! bah!

    Reply
  68. Short ID says:
    May 1, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    my hero :) first time here ;)
    hope i’m not late ^^
    http://www.vimeo.com/4435304
    Cya

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  69. Tom Kenney says:
    May 2, 2009 at 3:47 am

    http://www.vimeo.com/4440546

    Looks like you got some really nice submissions this go around. This is my first entry, so I took kind of a quick goofy stab at it.

    Reply
  70. Térence says:
    May 2, 2009 at 4:27 am

    Here is my entry !
    http://vimeo.com/4440832

    Reply
  71. Bruno Torres Boeger says:
    May 2, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Second Entry!
    Gonna work on Drunk vid now.
    http://www.vimeo.com/4444958

    Reply
  72. tony says:
    May 2, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    here goes nothing.

    Reply
  75. Doru says:
    May 4, 2009 at 2:53 am

    Hy Nick!
    This is my “hero”
    vimeo.com/4459090

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  76. Doru says:
    May 4, 2009 at 2:54 am

    http://vimeo.com/4460294
    update from previous comment. this link should work now.

    Reply
  77. Doru says:
    May 4, 2009 at 2:59 am

    3rd post.I’m not drunk. I’ve posted a bad link. Someonelse had made that, and i was just looking at it. :L)
    Here it is.
    http://vimeo.com/4459090

    Reply
  78. ScaryBasement says:
    May 4, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    It’s late. Things got pretty busy last week.

    Anyway – enjoy.

    http://vimeo.com/4482267

    Reply
  79. eladbari says:
    May 5, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    Fashionably late, am i?! :D
    Just this time..Nick…O.K? :]
    http://vimeo.com/4499020

    cheers!

    Reply
  81. Chris Culp says:
    May 15, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    This is late… I had the idea for a while and finally got to it! But it has a theme song so it’s totally worth it, right?

    http://www.vimeo.com/4672726

    Reply
  83. VPS says:
    June 6, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Great job. Thank you.

    Reply

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  85. domain kaydi says:
    December 30, 2009 at 2:42 am

    thank you for this article. Ive looked at the end.

    Reply

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