New Five Second Project “Spooky Scary”

Written by The Gorilla on October 19, 2009 and filed in Five Second Projects

UPDATE: Spooky Scary is now closed. Stay tuned to see the winners. Thanks to everyone for entering.

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Yep, it’s time again for my favorite holiday, Halloween! So, in honor of all things dark, fun and mysterious, this week’s theme will be “Spooky Scary”. Enter your animation now. New to the Five Second Projects? See the instructions below to get started.



Sponsored by Mocha from Imagineer Systems


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Thanks to our new sponsor, Imagineer Systems. They have offered up a great prize package featuring mocha and mocha shape. Mocha is a really cool planar tracker that allows you to track object in your scene and export the results into your compositing tool. Check out their products here.



The Prizes
The winner of the project will receirve a full version of mocha and the raffle prize, randomly chosen from all of the entries, will win a copy of mocha for After Effects and mocha Shape for After Effects. Awesome right? Thanks again to the sponsors!



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 “Spooky Scary” to make a five second motion piece and link it in the comments of this blog post. Please be sure to post a link in this post’s comments to ensure me seeing it.



Why Should You Enter? Check out the video…



How Do I Enter my Video?

  • 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 November 2nd



What Happened to Photos?
Sorry everyone, but I decided to stop doing the photo theme along with the Motion Design theme. There just weren’t enough entries. Plus, it doesn’t make sense with some of the prizes offered from the sponsors. I will try to get a different thing going for photographers, but for now, check out Photo Friday if you need a weekly theme… Thanks to everyone who actually posted a photo in the Flickr Theme though. Check them out here.



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? One more thing, try to tell your story without using the text “Spooky Scary” on the screen in text. Use the theme to create a concept instead. Take control of your creative output and Make Cool Shit!



Check out the entries here or visit the Vimeo Channel.

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  1. Michiel says:
    October 19, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Great theme! ;-) I hope I can find the time to create some spooky stuff!

    Reply
  2. Florian says:
    October 19, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    That’s a great theme :) . Lot of possibilities on this one. I’m in France this week(not at home), when is the deadline? I’d love to participate on this one, absolutely great prize as well :) .

    Reply
  3. Christian says:
    October 19, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    ok,… got no time to really do some funky stuff for this, but my will to enter is stronger :-) might not be my best work (not at all :) ) but as i´m into timelapse lately, i just enter with some seconds of my shots i did today … kinda fits i guess ;-)

    http://vimeo.com/7152302

    Reply
  4. Serge says:
    October 19, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Great theme….I’ll try to get something in on this one…

    Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh…..

    Reply
  5. Grant Osborne says:
    October 19, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    boooya… lets do this!

    Reply

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  7. Fabian says:
    October 20, 2009 at 1:57 am

    Hey Nick… Great theme! Too bad you decided to drop the Photographers, I enjoyed my five second projects for photography. But I can understand that it wasn’t going to work for you with so few entries. Still hoping you think of something else to do for the photographers :-)

    For now, I guess I’ll have to try to make something in After Effects! Still having trouble mastering that, but hey, if one doesn’t try…. right?

    Reply
  8. Aaron Legere says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:55 am

    I LOLed so hard at the title of this 5 second project. 30 rock all the way.

    Reply
  9. Adam McKenzie says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:59 am

    Hey Nick,

    I just noticed that you put my fast food 5 sec entry in the wrong channel. It’s in the circle and spheres channel at the moment. Any chance you could swap it over?

    Cheers

    Awesome work on the site man.

    Adam.

    Reply
  10. Matt Frodsham says:
    October 20, 2009 at 7:02 am

    Have to make time for this one, not had chance the last 2. One thing nick…

    “One more thing, try to tell your story by using text “Spooky Scary” on the screen in text”

    I think you need a ‘not’ in there somewhere or you might get all typography animations again!

    Reply
  11. Ryan Divine says:
    October 20, 2009 at 10:45 am

    I’m working on a *new* project for this one, but i just had to throw this one in the mix… It’s a short i did last year for shits n giggles, that happened to be exactly 5 seconds and just seemed way to perfect for this theme!

    http://vimeo.com/7165289

    rock!
    RD

    Reply
  12. Sébastien Lavoie says:
    October 20, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Hey hey, my first try for 5 seconds project, just trying, getting better. So here it is,

    http://www.vimeo.com/7175367

    And yes, I know I wrote scary and creepy instead of spooky scary but didn’t want to render it again so w/e, enjoy anyway!

    Reply

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  14. Dan W says:
    October 22, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    This is my “entry” for the 5 second project…

    http://www.vimeo.com/7213161

    check it out!

    Reply
  15. Pixelkid says:
    October 23, 2009 at 5:54 am

    Okay, here we go, simple vectors for Spooky the Winkle and Scary the Exposé… Wallop!

    http://www.vimeo.com/7217464

    Spooky Scary!

    Reply
  16. Rogue Robot says:
    October 23, 2009 at 8:20 am

    Here’s my entry for Spooky/Scary…

    http://www.vimeo.com/7210743

    Turn the lights out….

    Reply
  18. tomasz wachnik says:
    October 25, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Hello it’s main “Spooky & Scary” project,
    based on B movies :D

    http://www.vimeo.com/7250249

    enjoy !

    Reply
  22. Eric says:
    October 26, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Hey Nick,

    Here’s my entry

    http://vimeo.com/7268153

    Reply
  23. Tor Martin says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    Hello :)
    Have only been a spectator before, but this time I would like to join the party.

    Here is my closet:
    http://vimeo.com/7276762

    Reply
  24. Stewart says:
    October 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    Hey Nick,

    My first entry here, enjoy (created with AE)

    http://vimeo.com/7297622

    Reply
  25. MeD says:
    October 28, 2009 at 11:30 am

    my entry for spooky scary

    http://vimeo.com/7292583

    Reply
  27. Serge says:
    October 28, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    My first contribution!….

    More difficult than I thought, 5 sec is real short…no time to set up any mood…you got to go right down to business….Anyway, here it is….

    http://vimeo.com/7322415

    Reply
  28. Thierry says:
    October 29, 2009 at 4:38 am

    Hi Nick,

    My first entry for the 5 second project!
    Greetz

    http://www.vimeo.com/7325170

    Reply
  29. David says:
    October 29, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Happy Halloween everyone.

    http://vimeo.com/7332519

    Reply
  30. Ray Houghton says:
    October 29, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    http://www.vimeo.com/7334532

    cheers, happy halloween

    Reply
  31. Jim Montgomery says:
    October 29, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Here ya go Nick

    http://vimeo.com/7338817

    Reply
  32. Magda says:
    October 30, 2009 at 3:45 am

    hey! here is mine.
    don´t ask why..just something I had suddenly on my mind: http://www.vimeo.com/7311212

    Reply
  33. John Paite says:
    October 30, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Hi guys, here is mine

    http://www.vimeo.com/7343247

    Software: Maya,3dsmax P.S and AE

    Reply
  34. Greg says:
    October 30, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    Here’s mine, just in time for the weekend.

    http://vimeo.com/7350501

    Happy Halloween everyone!

    Reply
  35. Glauco says:
    October 30, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Happy Halloween everyone! Here is my Spooky Scary. Muahahaha.
    http://www.vimeo.com/7356332

    Reply
  38. Pierre Hageman says:
    October 31, 2009 at 11:34 am

    Here is my entry : http://vimeo.com/7360348

    Have a nice Halloween !

    Reply
  39. Junk says:
    October 31, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Hi everyone & Nick!
    Here’s my http://vimeo.com/7352841

    Reply
  41. eladbari says:
    October 31, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    There it is, Nick :]
    http://www.vimeo.com/7368677

    Thanks for the cool theme, btw!

    Reply
  44. Rickard Bengtsson says:
    November 1, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Finally done!
    Not going for spooky I’m going for absolute terror, I guess everyone here can relate..

    http://vimeo.com/7377489

    Reply
  45. Ben Dekeyser says:
    November 1, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    my part:

    http://vimeo.com/7379426

    No time for sound, to much work.

    Ben

    Reply
  46. Andre Peters says:
    November 1, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Howzit, again.

    And here’s my entry

    http://www.vimeo.com/73788

    Enjoy(?)

    Reply
  47. Andre Peters says:
    November 1, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    Hmph.

    Let’s try that again, shall we?

    http://www.vimeo.com/7378869

    Reply
  49. Michiel says:
    November 1, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    Just before the deadline…

    http://www.vimeo.com/7383815

    Cheers,

    Michiel

    Reply
  52. Daniel Weaver says:
    November 1, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Here’s my late late entry. I found out about this today and couldn’t resist!

    http://vimeo.com/7385712

    Reply
  53. Jim Montgomery says:
    November 1, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    Had time to make another one.

    http://vimeo.com/7386987

    Reply
  54. drew says:
    November 2, 2009 at 12:42 am

    hey nick and GSG peeps,

    here’s my entry!
    i wanted to do more animation but halloween really wrecked me this weekend :)

    http://vimeo.com/7387776

    Reply
  56. drew says:
    November 2, 2009 at 2:42 am

    hmmm…i decided to revise my entry and added a bit more animation (as i originally intended) but got too lazy/late to do it.

    now time for bed!

    http://www.vimeo.com/7388904

    thanks nick

    Reply
  57. streeture says:
    November 2, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    I will add my entry in the next hours! Wait for me and be prepared :)

    Reply
  59. Nick Jones says:
    November 2, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    Alright I played around in Vue for this one…

    http://vimeo.com/7399367

    Reply
  62. streeture says:
    November 2, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    wow, I did it!
    Have Fun Watching And Rating It:

    http://vimeo.com/7402937

    Reply
  63. mike Merritt says:
    November 2, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    Hey guys:
    1st 5 sec entry…

    http://www.vimeo.com/7402811

    Reply
  64. Remoz says:
    November 2, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Hi, sorry for this lil’late!
    Enjoy my 2nd “5 seconds”

    http://www.vimeo.com/7403621

    Remoz

    Reply
  65. Mathias Erixon says:
    November 2, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    (I put the entry in one of the replys above by mistake sorry :)

    Hawoooow

    Here is my 5 sec entry. The animation is somewhat crude. I´ll put in the hours next time boss. Promise!

    http://www.vimeo.com/7404106

    Reply
  66. tom says:
    November 2, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    probably way to late, but I’ll give a try :)

    This was done with the philosophy in mind of trying something new, something you’ve never done before. Scary!:)
    http://vimeo.com/7405276

    Reply
  68. somenice says:
    November 3, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Spoooky Scarrry 5 Seconds. At the last second? http://www.vimeo.com/7407646

    Reply
  69. StuartAmos says:
    November 3, 2009 at 12:34 am

    Hi Nick!

    I just realised that it’s alreayd midnight in Chicago! I’m in Vancouver and it’s 9:32pm on the 2nd. Hope you’ll consider my entry! I got really into this project and would be absolutely gutted to miss out!

    http://vimeo.com/7408759

    Thanks again for the contests! You are an inspiration.

    Cheers,
    Stu

    Reply
  71. Ross Foerschler says:
    November 3, 2009 at 12:58 am

    Mental Note: Always check the audio before rendering, especially when you are a procrastinator)

    Hey Nick, I think your site is set up for East Coast time. It’s down to the wire but audio matters! Thanks for putting these projects out there, They’re much appreciated.

    Nice, Three minutes to spare.

    Reply
  72. Ross Foerschler says:
    November 3, 2009 at 12:58 am

    Mental Note: Always check the audio before rendering, especially when you are a procrastinator)

    Hey Nick, I think your site is set up for East Coast time. It’s down to the wire but audio matters! Thanks for putting these projects out there, They’re much appreciated.

    Nice, Three minutes to spare.
    http://vimeo.com/7409002

    Reply
  73. Tor Martin Norvik says:
    November 3, 2009 at 5:04 am

    Hi,

    Just want to share a breakdown of my 5 second short film “Closet above bed”. You´ll find the breakdown here:
    http://vimeo.com/7404172

    It will give you some insights on the workflow, from projecting to compositing the renders from Cinema 4d.
    Hope its entertaining

    Cheers,
    Tor Martin

    Reply
  74. Mathias Erixon says:
    November 3, 2009 at 11:35 am

    Hi. I added my film link above in time but it was not added. I´ll post the link again.
    http://www.vimeo.com/7404106

    /Mathias

    Reply

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