Comments on: Winner of the Five Second Project, “Countdown”

By: Countdown | jimandtonic.co.uk

Countdown | jimandtonic.co.uk — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:36:56 +0000

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By: Riccardo Albertini

Riccardo Albertini — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:40:27 +0000

I tried to think out of the box as much as possible I think
Anyway, next time I’ll also work on sounds

By: Steven Jenkins

Steven Jenkins — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:36:46 +0000

I believe judging videos like these is a highly subjective process as with any type of art. There are rules to design, but they are of course made to be broken. That being said, one pattern I’ve noticed in the winning videos is not that they are in 3D, or stop motion, or any certain medium, but that the project was either highly elaborate in a way that didn’t clutter up the project, or there was some “out of the box” thinking that still clearly communicated the theme.

By: sjoerdwijn

sjoerdwijn — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:15:43 +0000

Great one people, nice projects!!

By: Fede

Fede — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:57:56 +0000

Riccardo Albertini: i can tell that you are italian XD. I’m actually from Uruguay, but my great grand father (i guess) was from italy, if that counts.

But i wanted to talk about what you said before regarding nationality lol. Thanks for sharing with us what’s happened to you, but i guess that this goes beyond each one, i mean, i don’t want this to be confused with “an angry participant trying to complain because he didn’t win”. In the first place i participated and, although i think my video was good, i do not think i should’ve won. In fact, having 155 contestants and most of them professionals, I think i’m faaaar from winning, i mean, i started with C4D last year.

The point here is the same like when you have a test at school, and you don’t understand the question, you know? i’m sure that even if nick answers i won’t win, but what i want to make clear here is that this is not about winning, but about quality and i want to make goog quality videos, that’s why i participate here, and i feel that if nick makes his “quality standards” (lacking a better expresion) clearer, we can all work better.

BTW, i’ve been thinking that maybe a good way to show how you evaluate, nick, would be to tell us what you’ve seen that you liked in this vids that won and why you chose them, but it’s just an idea.

bye guys!

By: Jeffrey Man

Jeffrey Man — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:55:41 +0000

I think (and this is just speculation) that usually the winner is chosen on concept, execution and design first, and how well the piece has been polished. And i believe all that includes the video and the sound design. I might be wrong though. but this is what i have noticed over the past few projects.

By: ink

ink — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:16:49 +0000

Neal picks his favorites
and he likes 3D.

By: Riccardo Albertini

Riccardo Albertini — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:38:05 +0000

Hey Fede!
I guess that’s the same question I wanted to ask…
I submit my first animation and I really worked hard to get it done.
I wanted to stand out by making a different concept than a simple countdown with no meaning, I like original concepts, therefore I planned the whole story, I storyboarded it and then I made all the illustrations and animations in illustrator, flash and after effetcs.
I really wanted to intrigue by the story but maybe that was not the point of the whole project, maybe I misunderstood something?
Please Nick, let us know!

Fede, are you italian by the way?

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:14:12 +0000

Best batch yet!

By: Fede

Fede — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:18:26 +0000

i guess i don’t even have to say how awesome most of the projects were, but just to be sure: everyone! your vids were absolutely great.

hey nick, i wanted to ask, (and many more probably have the same question in mind),what do you base on to make the decision when it comes to choosing the winners?

I wanna know this because i’ve seen almost every tutorial on C4D you’ve posted and quite a few on AE so far, and I’ve always agreed with much of what you said, your designing “tastes” (srry i’m not a native speaker and cannot think of a better word XD). The point is that in 5sp, i usually disagree. When you choose the winner and honorable mentions, I get usually disappointed, I mean, many times i’ve found a honorable mention or a vid that hasn’t been mentioned better than the winner. Of course that’s very personal, i really get that, but after that happened over and over again I realized that i don’t get what you are looking for in 5sp.

I want to make it clear that this is neither an angry complaint nor stupid and groundless criticism (i don’t even think it’s criticism), it’s just a question to know the “rules” i guess, and play by them. I mean, your answer may be a guide to me and a lot of people. I know that you’ve talked about similar things in your 5sp vids but what you say there is not quite what i wanna know

okay, thanks for taking the time to at least read a very long comment.I don’t know, just let us know what you think about it, so maybe just drop a few lines, i’ll be usefull for a bunch of guys behind their screens and maybe, improve the overall quality of 5sp’ if we have this sort of guide to work accordingly.

thanks! fede