Welcome to an all new five second projects. This week’s theme is “Old Video Games.” Atari, NES, SEGA, Arcade. It doesn’t matter really. Just help us remember the good old days when Mario ruled the world and first person shooters weren’t around. Create a short project based on the theme and post it in the comments to be entered into the contest.
Why Should You Enter? Check out the video…
How Do I Enter?
- 1. Create a five second animation based on the theme.
- 2. Upload your video to Vimeo. Don’t forget to add a link back to this blog post.
- 3. Post a link to this posts comment thread and I will add it to the Channel.
- 4. Deadline is July 13th
What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Old Video Games” to make a five second 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? Take control of your creative output and Make Cool Shit!
Check out the entries here or visit the Vimeo Channel…
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136 Comments
Awesome theme this around Nick!
BubbaJim on July 13th, 2009 said...
http://www.vimeo.com/5558211
Awesome theme Nick!
Great theme!
Going back when i was six.
It’s on like Donkey Kong.
Wow – Great theme! Too bad I am too busy to hand something in. Maybe at end of July…
Right Theme, Right Timing. I gotta jump in this one
we will see a lot of donkey kongs …
Pete on June 29th, 2009 said...
http://vimeo.com/5387161
I can;t wait to see the results. I’ve always loved the old school video games – the original Star Wars Arcade Game being my favorite. I created this as a possible tutorial for Red Giant TV, but haven’t had a chance to get it done yet:
http://cache.redgiantsoftware.com/_assets/uploads/file/products-examples/Video_Game.mov
Also, Dan Opsol, one of my students from a few years ago, made this awesome Nintendo-style video game animation as his final project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaIMD6Crh_I
Anyway, neither is 5 seconds long, but hopefully they can help inspire.
Leah on June 30th, 2009 said...
Great stuff. Love the ending of Billy Bombo.
thegorilla on June 30th, 2009 said...
That was great. Thanks for the inspiration Aharon!
man I am so stoked for this!
Aharon Rabinowitz!!!
You are the man, man!!!!
Spent so many days/weeks/years watching your podcasts.
Its nostalgic now, the upright base followed by the cow’s moo.
This is gonna be great challenge for sure.
“I’m pumped, let the healing begin” – Will Hunting
http://vimeo.com/5387933
great idea, i’m on.
it is funny that this theme is on, cause’ i’m just playing those good old games through internet – http://www.nintendo8.com
favorites are Contra and Super Mario 1.
I have a question – could i make one AE advert of this site – http://www.nintento8.com? Is it kinda forbidden to make somekinda advertisement to a site in this “Five sec projects”.
This site isn’t mine or something. I just like that place
thegorilla on June 30th, 2009 said...
Doing a promo for a site is a great idea. Keep it short and awesome! Sounds fun.
By coincidence, Kotaku posted some stop motion lego animations of arcade classics!
http://kotaku.com/5304227/lego-asteroids-lego-pac+man–lego-frogger
Must wait for over an hour for Vimeo to convert my video. Tik-tak. Come on.
(Yes, I do’t have a vimeo plus account)
I am new to after effects and this site, but I look forward to throwing my hat into the ring to see what I can do. I have seen a lot of great work on this site and I really appreciate the tutorials.
http://vimeo.com/5397223
Awsome Theme. can’t wait to see what people come up with.
Mox911 on June 30th, 2009 said...
Was added to the wrong 5 second project. just an fyi
thegorilla on June 30th, 2009 said...
Hehe. Sorry about that. Thanks!
Thanks again Nick, for your help and inspiration! Here is my submission…
http://www.vimeo.com/5398396
i predict we will see a lot of bad/old TV effects.
Still waiting for Vimeo to convert my video. I have been waiting for 17 hours
http://vimeo.com/5410614
http://vimeo.com/5409081
http://www.vimeo.com/5413491 heres my link and entry to this awesome comp. This is my lo res homage to a mispent youth, thinking that I was fighting off a alien horde…
Please enjoy
Rich
Still waiting for the upload to finish,
Dear Gorilla
here’s my submisson for the “5 Second Project”
http://vimeo.com/5413236
have a nice day
Datamoshing
http://www.vimeo.com/5414805
my humble salute to the invader nation
http://www.vimeo.com/5414347
Here it is ==> http://www.vimeo.com/5416950
Thank you mister Gorilla ^^ =)
Nice theme:O)
Here is my 5sec:O)
http://www.vimeo.com/5419610
I like your vdo’s very much. This is my first Entry in 5 Sec project. It took around 5 hrs with out any 3rd party plugins.Anyways here is the link http://www.vimeo.com/5419746.
http://vimeo.com/5419772
My 5 seconds …
The idea was to maintain the über-minimal look of Pong.
here is my 5 sec. project!
http://vimeo.com/5419915
2 days waiting on Vimeo, starting to think about getting a plus account
My entry: http://vimeo.com/5422419
Nick,
I love the 5-second ideas… what a great way to remind yourself that animating is supposed to be FUN even when it sometimes feels like a normal, 9-5 job. Here’s my first ever entry. I went with a “3D Killed the 2D Star” theme.
http://vimeo.com/5422879
joey
http://vimeo.com/5425830
I’d play it.
Hey, loving your tutorials and videos. Your laid back approach is really great.
Heres my first ever video I have actually made propally. It’s quite bad but whatever, it’s my first real try at anything in cinema 4d and after effects.
http://vimeo.com/5412672 (it may still be proccesing)
thegorilla on July 3rd, 2009 said...
Drop another comment when it is done processing Jonathan. I really want to add it but i have to see it first.
hey guys,
here’s my entry:
http://vimeo.com/5428147
have fun
thanks!…. http://www.vimeo.com/5430911
Here she is….
http://www.vimeo.com/5432100
This is my entry for the “Old Video Games” theme.
>>> http://www.vimeo.com/5433862
Hey thanks. Here is my entry:
http://www.vimeo.com/5434904
Feedback welcome. I want to learn. Hammer me.
http://vimeo.com/5436042
http://vimeo.com/5438315
http://vimeo.com/5439255
My submission for Auld Skool Video Games!
here it goes
http://vimeo.com/5439603
Here is my little contribution to that contest : http://www.vimeo.com/5440073
nice banner:)
i am a newb but i think this contest may be used to me as positive criticism
vidéo ->http://vimeo.com/5444491
sorry for my french english
sorry maybe i comment 2 times i don’t know, but anyway
here the link of my project
http://www.vimeo.com/5428651
please i want critics !
My video is not added
http://www.vimeo.com/5419746.
http://vimeo.com/5455030
Funny trying to fit a beginning, middle and end into 5 seconds but I’m getting there. Its my first attempt at pixel art, and animating it, but was a wicked little project. Noice. Can’t wait for the next one.
Feedback please!
Here´s my submission
http://www.vimeo.com/5455372
cheers nick…
My entry: http://vimeo.com/5450648
Here is my entry:
http://www.vimeo.com/5450609
My first entry ever:
http://vimeo.com/5461861
My entry: http://vimeo.com/5466773
Fun, fun fun.
Nick, I failed on the time limit but hopefully met the other requirements.
http://www.vimeo.com/5468789
LCD meets LED in my latest 5 second offering.
http://vimeo.com/5470362
Finally (made a .mov, and it was online in 20 min)
http://vimeo.com/5472922
My entry:
http://vimeo.com/5473380
Dunno what happened to the aspect ratio but whatever, it works.
Sorry Ninetondo fans but Mario wouldn’t stand a chance
http://vimeo.com/5473706
My entry:
http://vimeo.com/5480855
MY entry for the videogame: Attack of the Tetris
http://www.vimeo.com/5480230
Thanks for such a great project.
http://vimeo.com/5482180
Be gentle with the critique
Finally got my video to work, lots of issues with vimeo with my video not converting.
Here is the new link http://vimeo.com/5459125 ty
Here’s mine: http://vimeo.com/5468766
Here is my entry.
http://www.vimeo.com/5483028
Hey just want to submit our entry for the vintage video games, hope you can share our fun and narcissism.
Must say some of the entries are really fun. Keep up the good work guys…
Oh… as predicted a little bad TV…
http://vimeo.com/5410288
d
http://www.vimeo.com/5489087
My project:
http://vimeo.com/5490348
Sorry my last Link was corrupt.
http://www.vimeo.com/5490238
I just finished my 5 sec entry – it’s my first participation^^
http://www.vimeo.com/5505663
Yo Nick,
thats my entry:
http://www.vimeo.com/5514856
Greets from Hannover / Germany
Here is my own entry- http://www.vimeo.com/5513503
“Nostalgia Complete” a nod to Tetris, complete with the Gotham font.
Long time viewer, first time participator. Cool topic, so I decided to attempt it.
Here’s my entry—Uh? Just blow on it?
http://www.vimeo.com/5517774
I wish I had had more time to work on it but I’ve got none left this week and I was out of town last week! It originally started out with 3D cube pixels in AE but that would have taken forever. I should have just taken it in to Cinema. Oh well. I did consider just using a ton of offset layers. Others got good results with it, but I decided against it.
Anyway, good work everyone!
By the way, I really wish I had thought of Tetris first, I only played it solidly for hours every day of my childhood. Oh well.
Here’s my entry…had a blast making this one
Let me know what you think.
http://vimeo.com/5518882
I LOVE this theme
some great work coming through..
Unfortunately I don’t have time to make an entry
This is the nearest animation I’ve ever made that is kinda like a video game ?!
http://www.hypatv.com/qt/AttackOfTheMagi.mov
Well done everyone, some awesome work here.
cheers
Tim
thegorilla on July 10th, 2009 said...
Dude, Tim, that thing is crazy! I like the old theme songs a ton and the gore is beautiful. Everybody, go check this out.
Here’s my entry: http://www.vimeo.com/5511848
Here’s my submission:
http://www.vimeo.com/5521910
Thanks Nick!
five second project – made in five seconds at work
old game project /
Greetings from POLAND!
LINK:
http://www.vimeo.com/5522045
Hey !
Thanks for all the good stuff , here’s my entry :
http://www.vimeo.com/5523828
Greets from France !
This is an awesome idea, perfect motivation learn new stuff try out ideas.
http://www.vimeo.com/5519084
http://www.vimeo.com/5519467
Theres my entry for the old video game 5 second project.
Not that great i know but im still fairly new to AE.
I figured the best way for me to get better is to try things like this.
Thanks
Hi there!
Here is something I made for this project called: Pixel Spaceship
http://www.vimeo.com/5524510
Hope you’ll like it!
It’s really about experimentig new techniques, in this case Maya’s nParticles – the surface and the explosion was generated by these animation tools – but also considering concept I found it interesting to transfer a 2D pixel space into 3D…
I also uploaded it here – just to make sure.
http://www.illnevil.com/videos/spaceship_ip.mov
Hi Gorilla,
this is my 5 second contribution;
http://vimeo.com/5524929
thanks for the cool theme
greetings,
Giso
Hey Nick…
This is my first entry in these contests, and I have to say, what a great idea. It’s perfect for demo reels, just like you said! I had fun trying out this new technique for a “blue print” look.
http://www.vimeo.com/5526267
Hey here is my 5 second project…Hope you’ll like it!
http://www.vimeo.com/5530017
Here is my entry. Thanks for turning me on to Universal Everything. They do some amazing work.
http://www.vimeo.com/5531627
Hey Greyscale.
Here is my submission – http://vimeo.com/5533551 .
Also, maybe a bit irrelevant but a link to the breakdown – http://vimeo.com/5533572 .
Thx.
Hey Nick,
This is my fist entry to your 5 seconds projects.
I’m about to begin my 2nd year in animation school, there were some things that we didn’t see in class and that I wanted to try this summer.
This is one of them: Inverse Kinematics in After Effects.
http://www.vimeo.com/5534919
I would like get some comments or critics on the video.
Here is my cool shit:
It was made on Flint.
Try to use your 3D glasses to have a real
experience. :0)
http://www.vimeo.com/5536355
Hello !
Here is my video :
http://www.vimeo.com/5539323
http://vimeo.com/5543148
Here’s my entry!
http://www.vimeo.com/5538925
Hey Nick!
Just finished my project
http://vimeo.com/5533091
Thanks!
Louis
DUDE, there are a TON of great clips entered for this project. Thanks everyone! Keep them coming. It’s not over till Monday.
Yo Nick,
can’t see my project on the channel, forgot me?
Cheers, Tobi
thegorilla on July 10th, 2009 said...
Drop me then link again Tobi. Ill make sure you get in.
Tobi on July 10th, 2009 said...
Here it is: http://www.vimeo.com/5514856
Hi Nick!
Here is my entry:
http://vimeo.com/5549051
It´s called SPACE INVADERS RELOADED!
Hope to get some comments!
Video will take 2 hours to convert it =(
You can check it at youtube till then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1lyMA9Bgxc
Hi !
I just uploaded mine.
First video for the 5 Second Project !
http://www.vimeo.com/5553575
Watch it, critic hardly ^^
Alex
“keytar hero”
http://www.vimeo.com/5554326
Ok, I almost missed this one. I started with a modern rendition of Atari’s “Asteroids”, until I checked back the first submissions and noticed there was at least an entry on that game. So here’s my entry, just in time I think:
http://www.vimeo.com/5556999
Awesome theme Nick, thanks for hosting such a nice opportunity to get inspired and push our skills to the max (or at least try to
).
Here’s my humble submission. One of my first attempts of animation or motion design in after effects. Later.
http://vimeo.com/5489633
Damn. i have an idea … but i dont know how should i do it. :S
Shit.
Nick,
I love the 5-second ideas, thanks
Here’s my entry!http://www.vimeo.com/5562811
Aight, Nick- you got me interested now.
If I need to make cool stuff, might as well start with something I have a particular passion about- old video games.
No sound in this one, I’m afraid. Maybe next time.
http://vimeo.com/5559182
Hi Nick, i still can’t see my project on the channel. Could you please get me in:
http://www.vimeo.com/5514856
Hiya, here’s my entry! http://vimeo.com/5563245
Omg huge participitation in here
here’s my contribution:
http://vimeo.com/5564902
hit me up with the criticism !
http://www.vimeo.com/5564308
Hey guys,
Here’s my entry : http://www.vimeo.com/5567908
A lot of cool stuff entered this time around. Roll on next week
Cheers!
Matt
Here’s my entry please add
Thanks
http://www.vimeo.com/5568455
hi everyone, here the link to my first ever 5 second project
http://www.vimeo.com/5569163
Here is my animation.
http://www.vimeo.com/5569676
Hi Nick,
You haven`t posted my animation on the vimeo channel yet. I upleaded on friday.
Here´s the link:
http://vimeo.com/5549051
first time poster here…loving this site.
http://www.vimeo.com/5570223
here is my first 5 second entry:
http://www.vimeo.com/5573048
Beeps and blibs for the 5 second animation competition.
Also my first 5 seconds:
http://www.vimeo.com/5574176
Hey there Nick,
First time caller long time listener, love the stuff you’ve got going on here. Creative league too–I hope it grows into a colossal monster.
I hope I’m not late..
http://www.vimeo.com/5574723
Title – Shatter the Past
Great posts everyone!
Cheers,
Aaron
napalm on July 13th, 2009 said...
love this week’s theme
here my contribution: http://www.vimeo.com/5577771
Ah i just realized that i didnt add the appropriate links to my video, http://vimeo.com/5554326
Matt Graichen on July 13th, 2009 said...
Here is my entry for the 5 Second Project
http://www.vimeo.com/5558211
I’m trying to learn 3ds Max and get better with it. Its not that great, but I figured I’d try it.
Thanks
oops, i fucked up the proper comment posting
here my contribution: http://www.vimeo.com/5577771
Awesome theme! Here’s mine.
http://vimeo.com/5581731
Hello Nick,
Here is my link. I hope have come in time.
Thanks.
http://www.vimeo.com/5582882
erlon on July 13th, 2009 said...
Sorry, the url was replaced.
The new is:
http://vimeo.com/5584365
here is my submission:
http://vimeo.com/5583842
enjoy the site, keep it up. finally had time to partake
http://vimeo.com/5585628
Ryan on July 14th, 2009 said...
pretty sure I had all my vimeo settings wrong, are you still adding to the channel?
http://vimeo.com/5585628
Hey!
Was psyched about this theme!
Looks like I’m getting in just under the gun.
Here is my entry:
http://vimeo.com/5585960
Alessandro DeCredico on July 13th, 2009 said...
I’m guessing…Chicago time?
http://www.vimeo.com/5586923
Alessandro DeCredico on July 13th, 2009 said...
Woops, sorry for the stray reply, Bill.
First time messing with Dynamics, so it’s a little, uh, unpredictable
http://www.vimeo.com/5586872
My FIRST 5 second Project… yay.
Just read an animation book and thought I’d try out a few things.
http://vimeo.com/5587407
enjoy!
Simple and stupid.
Here it is:
http://www.vimeo.com/5587616
Hi
I think you forgot mine.
Here it is ==> http://www.vimeo.com/5553575
I left a first comment on July 11
thegorilla on July 14th, 2009 said...
Your video has been set to private Turtles. Please set it to “Everyone” so that we can see it and I can add it into the channel. Cheers!
http://vimeo.com/5587322
I think you guys may like it :O)))
http://vimeo.com/1743331
There is no winner to this challenge?
Forgot mine Nick:
http://www.vimeo.com/5604156
leave ur comments guys!
Kt Isabelle on July 18th, 2009 said...
I know it’s way too late to enter the contest. I left the country for a week as Vimeo was thinking about converting my video. Oh well. Wanted to share it anyway.
http://www.vimeo.com/5514601
Watch this….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI&e
Atari Pitfall!
btw, do any of you know where i can find a free and decent atari pitfall game to embed onto my site?
http://joystick-video-games.com/
thanx