Five Second Project – “FAIL”

Written by The Gorilla on January 18, 2010 and filed in Five Second Projects

What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our demo reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Fail” 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. If your new to five second projects, why not check out the Five Second Projects Archive to watch all of the past themes.

Rules

1. Submissions must be Five Seconds Long!
2. Only animation is accepted. Video only submissions will not.
3. The animations has to do with the theme in some way.
4. Original Work only. Don’t cut out 5 seconds of already made work.
5. Link back to GSG on your Vimeo Post

Why Should You Enter?

1. Try new techniques or software
2. Limitations help get the mind working.
3. Make short, awesome pieces for your reel.
4. Get critique from your peers.
5. Promote yourself.

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 Sunday January 31st

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  2. Kees says:
    January 18, 2010 at 10:30 am

    I’m definatly in again! Love the theme!

    Reply

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  4. Sundeep Toor says:
    January 18, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Haha! great theme! I’ll see if I can get round to submitting something to this

    Reply
  6. Laura says:
    January 18, 2010 at 11:59 am

    didn’t take a lot of frames…. :)

    Reply
  7. James Wicks says:
    January 18, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    Hey Nick!
    How do you earn your money?
    I thought you no longer work at DK?
    So, do you freelance?
    How do you find the time to blog, do tuts, make apps, etc. and make money to pay your bills?
    C’mon man, spill the beans.
    What’s yer secret?

    J

    Reply
  8. Keitto says:
    January 18, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    Awesome theme!!! :D

    Reply
  10. Rickard Bengtsson says:
    January 18, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    Haha awesome theme.
    Hammering through this test filled week of school then it’s After effects time!

    Reply
  11. Tadej Bokan says:
    January 18, 2010 at 4:20 pm

    Great theme for my first 5s project. :)

    Reply
  13. mike says:
    January 18, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    5 second epic fail walking cell phone robot using only mo2 dynamics and some xpresso.(cellphones are from maxon library)

    my submission:
    http://vimeo.com/8830237

    Reply
  14. CaseLat says:
    January 18, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    OH MAN! I LIKE THIS ONE!!

    Reply
  19. vot says:
    January 20, 2010 at 1:39 am

    Yo Nick , should I make a new entry project ?
    I used the destruction tut that you posted before . :(

    http://www.vimeo.com/8857902

    rules :
    !!!4. -ORIGINAL WORK ONLY-. Don’t cut out 5 seconds of already made work.!!!

    Reply
  24. Brett Perry says:
    January 20, 2010 at 11:58 am

    Hi Nick,
    Great theme. Here’s my entry
    http://vimeo.com/886621.

    Reply
  25. Brett Perry says:
    January 20, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    Sorry, posted an incorrect link. The link for my video is http://vimeo.com/8866221.

    Reply
  26. Rounin says:
    January 20, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    OT: Nick or Anyone know of a script/plugin for AE that allows you to make your video change from pixels to letters? Here’s are some examples. Note this site does it on the fly.

    http://www.asciimeo.com/8837024

    http://www.asciimeo.com/4917346

    MAKE SURE TO CLICK “SIMPLE ASCII” it looks better.

    You can do this with any vimeo videos. It really works great for those simple motion graphics. I’d like to do something like that.

    Reply
  27. sai says:
    January 20, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    the theme is really great :)
    here is mine: my computer is such a fail that I can`t do any of the projects :D :D:D:D

    Reply
  29. ray houghton says:
    January 20, 2010 at 10:01 pm

    http://www.vimeo.com/8878650

    not sure why it didn’t post the first time… hopefully this doesn’t double up

    cheers

    Reply
  30. Raul Velazquez says:
    January 20, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    Here’s my first submission ever. Hope it floats.

    http://www.vimeo.com/8878886

    Reply
  31. spenser says:
    January 20, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    Oh man.. this is going to be hilarious…

    Reply
  32. Dave Spooner says:
    January 21, 2010 at 12:59 am

    Love your site, been following it for a while, here is my first submission, hopefully it doesn’t suck too much! :)

    http://www.vimeo.com/8881258

    Reply
  33. Dave Koss says:
    January 21, 2010 at 2:40 am

    Well… took 7 & 1/2 hours, but I finally finished it…

    http://www.vimeo.com/8881915

    Making of compressed into 1 minute here (http://www.vimeo.com/8882325)

    Reply
  35. Dennie van Dijk says:
    January 21, 2010 at 11:23 am

    Hey Guys my first “character” animation with the theme: Fail
    http://vimeo.com/8888966

    Cheers Nick, love your sharing!

    Reply
  37. Justin Younger says:
    January 21, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    Here it is, I failed as hard as I could on this one.

    http://vimeo.com/8894437

    Reply
  38. Alan Adamik says:
    January 21, 2010 at 5:06 pm

    Long time seeing, first time writing :)
    Here’s my first try : http://vimeo.com/8896964
    I already know it sucks but i just wanted to participate :)

    Reply
  39. Jay Rust says:
    January 21, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    Here’s mine! Hope you guys like it!

    http://www.vimeo.com/8899606

    Reply
  42. ramon says:
    January 22, 2010 at 1:03 am

    This is my first submission.

    http://vimeo.com/8903975

    Reply
  47. Agustin Marcocci says:
    January 22, 2010 at 1:35 pm

    Here is my entry:

    http://www.vimeo.com/8909532

    Enjoy!

    Reply
  51. Sean Hunt says:
    January 23, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    Heya! here’s mine…

    http://www.vimeo.com/8930354

    Only discovered this blog a week or so ago, great resource :)

    Reply
  52. Jason Jahnke says:
    January 23, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    cool beans.
    5 Seconds.

    http://www.vimeo.com/8919429

    Reply
  53. Myron Blocksome says:
    January 23, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    5 second FAIL project – http://www.vimeo.com/8936372

    Your blog great! keep it up

    Reply
  56. P B says:
    January 24, 2010 at 9:36 am

    Recently discovered this website and love it.

    Here’s my submission. http://www.vimeo.com/8940027

    It beats going outside in a Minnesota winter. :-)

    Reply
  57. Annet says:
    January 24, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    Hi Nick, here is my entry:
    http://vimeo.com/8949240

    Reply
  59. Tonni Hansen says:
    January 24, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Here is my first entry. Looking forward to doing more =)

    http://www.vimeo.com/8954501

    Keep up the good work Nick!

    Reply
  60. Danielw says:
    January 25, 2010 at 6:58 am

    My first ever entry to the 5SP projects

    http://vimeo.com/8966074

    Reply
  61. Marv Gilbert says:
    January 25, 2010 at 11:16 am

    Great Site Nick, thanks for all the tutes. First entry here… http://vimeo.com/8970777

    Reply
  62. Rickard Bengtsson says:
    January 25, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    My first entry for “fail”. Actually second, the other one is just taking longer to finish so did this one as a break.

    http://vimeo.com/8972379

    Reply
  64. Sebastian says:
    January 25, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    Nick, I’m sorry. I had to re-upload my entry ’cause it had no audio. I hope it’s OK.
    Thanks!
    http://vimeo.com/8907640

    Reply
  65. Dima says:
    January 25, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    Hello, Nick!
    This is my entry http://www.vimeo.com/8982342

    Reply
  66. pranjal says:
    January 26, 2010 at 12:34 am

    A failed contribution from my side.Keep rocking Fellows.
    Good theme Nick.Loved doing it.

    http://www.vimeo.com/8986600

    Reply
  68. Alan Adamik says:
    January 26, 2010 at 7:33 am

    Here’s a remake of my submission, for the best i suppose :)
    http://vimeo.com/8989716
    (I don’t want to make a double submission, just wanted to share it and receive meaningful feedback)

    Reply
  71. Raj says:
    January 26, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    Hey guys, here’s my part of failure :)
    I just love these FSPs…

    http://www.vimeo.com/8998357

    Reply
  72. Sivupersoona says:
    January 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm

    http://vimeo.com/8996044
    The video compression of Vimeo had no mercy this time.

    Reply
  73. Serge Tardif says:
    January 26, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    Hello Nick ! My 5 Second Project…

    Reply
  75. Richard Hinchcliffe says:
    January 26, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    Here’s another one, hope you enjoy it! http://vimeo.com/9008475

    Reply
  76. Steven Jenkins says:
    January 27, 2010 at 12:43 am

    Hey, Nick! Here’s my failure! I’m liking the 5 sec projects!
    http://www.vimeo.com/9012940

    Reply
  78. Christian Schmid says:
    January 27, 2010 at 7:36 am

    hey nick…
    here’s mine
    http://www.vimeo.com/9016614

    Reply
  79. Gabriele says:
    January 27, 2010 at 9:11 am

    Here is my video, I hope you like it.

    http://vimeo.com/9018125

    Reply
  80. Rickard Bengtsson says:
    January 27, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Finally done with my 2nd entry. I think I pushed ae to the limit, at least for my machine. It was impossible to work with towards the end.
    For more info check the description on vimeo

    http://vimeo.com/9023495

    Reply
  81. Luka says:
    January 27, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    Hi Nick. This is my first 5 second project and it will not be last i learned so much doing this. I love Photoshop and AF.

    my project:
    http://www.vimeo.com/9024767

    Luka

    Reply
  85. Luka says:
    January 27, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    hi.

    I had a problem with my first file on vimeo so i had to re-upload and this is the link to the real project.

    my project:
    http://www.vimeo.com/9029206

    Luka

    Reply
  86. Troy A says:
    January 27, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    Here’s mine! Hope you enjoy!! :)

    http://vimeo.com/9033436

    Reply
  87. shapirog says:
    January 27, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    Here is my Penguin Party Fail.
    http://vimeo.com/9035262

    Reply
  88. Sock Gardener says:
    January 28, 2010 at 2:11 am

    Hey Nick
    Sorry for the second post but I think you missed mine when you were adding them to the Vimeo channel

    http://vimeo.com/8995927

    cheers

    Reply
  90. Malibran says:
    January 28, 2010 at 7:41 am

    Hi Nick! Here´s my very artesanal entry:
    http://www.vimeo.com/9041680

    Great theme. Hope you like it.

    Reply
  91. MEHMET KUTLAY DEDE says:
    January 28, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    Here is my entry for the FAIL theme.
    Enjoy it

    http://www.vimeo.com/9050026

    Reply
  92. Mehmet Kutlay Dede says:
    January 28, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    Here is my updated entry for the FAIL theme.
    Enjoy it.

    http://www.vimeo.com/9053188

    Reply
  93. Ryan Sneddon says:
    January 29, 2010 at 1:03 am

    Been meaning to do one of these for awhile. You’re website has provided me with a lot of great information and advice. Thanks!

    http://vimeo.com/9061564

    Reply
  94. fabian says:
    January 29, 2010 at 2:50 am

    Hey Nick… here is my entry for the FiveSecond Projects: GreyFail Gorilla. Don’t take it personal… :-)

    http://vimeo.com/9055468

    Reply
  96. Adeolu says:
    January 29, 2010 at 5:54 am

    Hi NICK, this is ma first entry into d 5 seconds Project. LETS GO THERE

    http://www.vimeo.com/9043408

    Reply
  99. Orangelizard says:
    January 29, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    I’m also a GSG 5sec Project virgin, hope you like my attempt!

    http://www.vimeo.com/9072984

    Jason

    Reply
  100. Sam Rivers says:
    January 29, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    Hi, here’s my entry -
    http://www.vimeo.com/9076128
    be gentle with critique pls :)

    Reply

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