Spooooooooooky!!!! What is the last thing you want to see crawling out of your closet at night? What are you afraid of? Freak me out, will ya?
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 “Nightmare” to make a five second motion piece and enter it into the form below. If your new to five second projects, why not check out the Five Second Projects Archive to see 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. Submit your link to the form below and I will add it to the channel
4. Deadline is Sunday, November 7th
Submissions are now closed. Thanks to all who entered!
Watch the videos at the vimeo channel, or at the FiveSecondProjects Archive
I hope I can find some spare time to work on this one!
Good luck everyone!
Hell Yes!
Makes me think of my vampire from last year who sadly died along with one of my harddrives..
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
great theme nick, will try and find time for this one.
Great theme. Might try to do an entry for this one, time permitting.
Aw crap, I have no time for this, unfortunately. But these projects are very clever. Thanks!
YES! Now I actually have to spend some quality time instead of rushing stuff within a day.
Difficult theme, but only makes it more fun to get my creative juices flowing
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Woot I’ve been waiting to do a new one!
AWESOME! best theme ever.
Starting to work on mine now. This is my first time entering, I’m excited!
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Sometimes I have a really hard time processing ideas or coming up with stuff. Whats your way around this, Nick? Tutorial on the evolution of an idea maybe? haha
Would be awesome, same problem here (=
There are lots of ways to do this, it’s a really interesting subject indeed for a blogpost or tutorial.
Here are two ways:
1. Google nightmare images: lots of ideas over there.
2. Play association games: Think the first word you think of when you think about nightmares, and then associate that word with another word that comes to mind and repeat this over and over. It’s cool to do this with someone else, it’s amazing with what you can come up with in the end, when you have all the words. You can make combinations of those words and a concept will emerge.
Anyone else want to share ideas about there ways of coming up with concepts?
I am not shure if this helps but it’s a hell of a wonderfull animation.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU&feature=player_embedded
Stay up way to late.
Pretty much all my good ideas come when I can’t sleep. I keep a sketchbook by my bed full of ideas
oh heck yeah. great theme!
A vampire…
A werewolf…
I love them both, but only have time to animate one of them…
Maybe I’ll figure it out in the next episode…
Decided on bats instead of vampires or werewolves.
http://www.vimeo.com/16605344
Good luck, everyone!
No shrinks allowed!
I’m skewaud.
Ultimate nightmare inspiration : http://www.anasomnia.com/
http://vimeo.com/16341234
First time!
First time too!
Mine hasn’t been add yet, if it’s a little too dark, let me know and I’ll summit another one:)
http://vimeo.com/16428885
Just finished mine. Worked a bunch on it but it wound up being sort of abstract and I think the edits are too quick. Oh well. Fun theme!!!
http://vimeo.com/16470309
Just finished it, whew.
http://vimeo.com/16508454
Learned a lot trying to get cloth, rigging, fluid dynamics, and particles working together!
=]
just uploaded my first entry “a dream come true” here:
http://www.vimeo.com/16513201
probably (and hopefully
) more witty than creepy, but i hope it fits the topic anyway. i’m looking forward to hear your feedback. 
hey gorilla!! my entrie
http://vimeo.com/16548671
Here`s mine!
http://vimeo.com/16554990
Thanks Gorilla for these cool challenges!
This is the first time that i post something
Hey, a stupid question here, it’s my first time on a contest like that.
Deadline Sunday means that all entries after Saturday midnight will be out?
Or I could post my vimeo on Sunday evening?
Can someone explain?
I’m doing my best be able to enter. Thanx.
Tried a little mix of the 5D Mark II, motion tracking, and Cinema 4D. – http://www.vimeo.com/16569387
Also, making of if anyone’s interested… http://www.vimeo.com/16574317
I uploaded my first ever 5 second project. Love the theme and really enjoyed making it. Also the first time I’ve used after effects too. Only thing is the sound changed from my other laptop when I uploaded it so it sounds totally different now. Looking forward to the next theme though.
Ummm…this might be a n00b question, but is the deadline 11:59PM Sunday? I wasn’t too sure so I submitted what I had:
http://vimeo.com/16577050
If so, then I’ll re-submit with a more polished version before that time under the same link! Thanks!
first time contributing =)
http://www.vimeo.com/16566685
upload finished.
Love watching your videos Nick. It’s such fun – thanks a lot.
Here is my first contributions too.
http://www.vimeo.com/16554282
I gave it a try.
Here’s my first contribution also.
http://www.vimeo.com/16586345
take care.
Here’s Mine…. Just in Time!
http://vimeo.com/16589624
My entry : http://vimeo.com/16596561
Thank you all
First time. Here it is:
http://www.vimeo.com/16598404
First timer too http://vimeo.com/16599164
Just in time.
http://vimeo.com/16603401
Cheers and great entries everyone!
For your enjoyment…
http://vimeo.com/16603347
Thanks for watching!
Okie dokie! Just in time! The final version is up: http://vimeo.com/16577050 Good Luck everyone!
the real nightmare is when SoundBooth keeps on closing for no apparent reason, but here’s my submission too:
http://vimeo.com/16604493
wish it was a 10 sec project
not paranormal this time i promise
cheers
http://www.vimeo.com/16604889
ok here is my entry:
http://vimeo.com/16322557
cheerio
Ok, I know my submission is a bit late but I thought I’d post it anyway.
http://www.vimeo.com/16633283
new link: http://www.vimeo.com/16634277
Too late but here it is.
http://vimeo.com/16731728
Aargh the compression..
I got it ready in time but I forgot to upload it properly. My fault.
This time it was triky. A five second nightmare is a very short nightmare.
Check it if you like, guys.
http://www.vimeo.com/16738565