What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make original work for our demo reel or portfolio. But, sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Here is your chance. Use the theme “Pinball” (Sorry, I’m obsessed) 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 and winners.
Rules
Watch a Video about the rules
1. Submissions must be Five Seconds Long!
2. Any 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?
Watch The Video about why to 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. (Submissions can take up to 48 hours to be added to the project.)
4. Deadline is Sunday, January 29th.
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED. Thanks for entering.
Now What?
Watch all the entries at the vimeo channel, or check out old Five Second Projects in the FiveSecondProjects Archive
figured this would be one of the 5 second projects eventually. Good luck kiddos
Hey nick great idea…..iam gona spare time for this one,check out this user…i know you like your pinball
http://vimeo.com/user4577902
nice find
yes lots and lots of pinball
nothing but PINBALL! he totally beats nick’s obsession! ;p
hahaha…..dont worry nick will be doing that next and uploaded on vimeo.
he will be plying with Go pro HD hero on his head
haha..ill be waiting!
That’s really cool thanks for the link
Let the retro Sesame Street references begin…
Like this one ?
http://vimeo.com/24028893
I’m gonna give this one a shot Nick, I have some time this week. I don’t share this particular passion of you, so I’ll try to find my own angle to it
Have fun everyone. Make it grand.
Cheers,
Vincent
Bah, as normal I won’t have time to enter, but i did render out a still for “pinball”.
http://chris192.deviantart.com/art/Pinball-279824263
I’m Hilarious.
bwwaahhahahhahah….nice one Chris, I was expecting some cool complex machinery futuristic pinball and there it was, a pin stuck to a ball -_-
haha..yes you are!
you are obsessed with pinball, Nick!
I still gotta learn a lot from you guyz so gonna watch for some more time before jumping in these
contests
:O Nooo I have exams next week, there is no way I’ll be able to meet the deadline
…..but I’m giving it a go anyways this will be a fun project 
I won’t be able to do this one, but someone should make a dubstep pinball machine
Had to miss the last two but I have enough free time to enter again, this is one of the best themes so far I think!
Can’t wait to see the results of this 5 second project. I recently made this video about a collector here in DC who owns over 900 machines and opened a museum. I’ll have to email him the finished videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKGgbg_atw
Hello.
This is my project for this challenge
http://vimeo.com/35283940
“Our world…according to GSG.”
Leave comments and/or Like for future improvements.Thanks.(From France)
Had some spare time. Here’s my first ever entry into the 5 sec competitions: http://vimeo.com/35309407
Looking forward to these entries. Unfortunately I have another big pinball project to work on
Wink!!
Super new at C4D but decided to give it a shot anyways
Here’s my entry:
http://vimeo.com/35349856
I’m not seeing a deadline. Where should I look to find this ultra critical piece of information?
Oi, never-mind the blind man who posted that last comment on my behalf. He has been fully reprimanded, and shall not annoy us a second time.
This is my project
http://vimeo.com/35455922
Here is a quick one:
http://vimeo.com/35480494
Heres my entry, inspired by Paul Clements mindblowing headphone spot. http://vimeo.com/35491595
Hi Mark, really like the 5 seconds. Can you please help, I must be losing my mind but how do you create the effect right at the start? The building of the stem its used loads in the Paul Clements spot i just can not work it out.
Here’s crack at it.
http://vimeo.com/35550374
Hi Nick check out this pinball animation got a tutorial all over it.
http://www.motionserved.com/gallery/Fox-Retro-Birthday-Id/794321
how can u give me this tut ????? plz
Where’s that tut? Would love to follow it!
Quick little thing, mainly using Alchemy:
http://vimeo.com/35694189
Hi !
Here is my little contribution :
http://vimeo.com/35748643
Thx !
I submitted bad link. Im a epitome of a beginner. I had fun though. My simple flash project. I cant wait to learn more programs and merge techniques. Learning the basics. http://vimeo.com/35797072
http://vimeo.com/35757039
Hi!
This is my first project submitted to Five Second Project:
http://vimeo.com/35825558
BTW. this is my first animation rendered in Cinema using only illuminating materials. I’ve faced so many problems with render due to extreme blotches. Firstly the whole scene was in bright and dark spots, than I’ve changed GI to IR + QMC (full animation). It was a bit better, but i had 5 good frames and than one blotchy. Finally I’ve increased Stochastic Samples sample count to 1600 and decreased accuracy to 40% and I was hardly acceptable. I’ve also noticed that when I’ve increased diffuse depth to 3-4 it was a bit better. After all it took 24h to render all this(5sec = 30frames/sec in 1024x768px)…
Is there another way to get rid of blotches without increasing render time by 8 times? Any ideas? Did any of you faced the same problem?
I’ve never done anything like this before… I rarely have time to make any animations that aren’t for work… though I only had 2.5 hours to get this done, Really basic but I’m still kinda happy with it
http://vimeo.com/35828532
Dear Nick. I know you play drums too, so I’m kind of making a fusion of your two obsessions
http://vimeo.com/35832605
its been a while since i entered,
http://vimeo.com/35833970
Here`s my entry: http://vimeo.com/35802446
Heres my entry. Good Times
http://vimeo.com/35824748
This was a fun one. Hope you enjoy it!
http://vimeo.com/brockoli/braveball
Hello.
http://vimeo.com/35844095
nice imagination
Thank you.
http://vimeo.com/35852482
My first five seconds submission. I took the pinball theme and designed a few logos (in illustrator) that you typically have in a game and made them fly around in after effects and cinema 4d. The idea in others words visualize a pinball game in 5 seconds using type and sound.
Good fun!
Sounds sampled from Time fantasy pinball game.
freesound.org/people/erlingx/
freesound.org/people/Moeder Babelutte
Love this kind of projects!
I wanted to know how a pinball ball feels in a pinball machine – so I simulated it
https://vimeo.com/35852425
The Revenge of the Pinball!
http://vimeo.com/35811284
greetings mi family from the warm parts of the earth JAMAICA
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I saw ur love for Pinball and how much love doing wat u do, i truly admire that, keep up the great work Nick.
this is my first ever entry for ur 5 second competition of it stands out
http://vimeo.com/35858381
one love. from the yard
Hi guys,
, otherwise render time was a fuc*** whole week waiting on my i7 macbook pro…, it is just a C4D standard render, so no super-glossy reflections on glass and pinballs etc…,, luky I use GSG HDR studio though…! 
Uff! it’s almost 4 in the morning here!
This is my first 5′ piece ever too, I decided to make a homage to one of my favourite pinball machines, Bally’s Theatre of Magic (TOM)…., I went a bit crazy on this, and modeled the full cabinet from scratch…, it’s kinda of a promo of this beautyful table…, wish I had more time, cos’ had to render it without global illumination,
hope u like it!
The Theatre awaits!
http://vimeo.com/35861733
deif
still amateur….looking forward to learn new tricks……
my attempt
http://vimeo.com/35859688
Hope I still can submit. It’s 10pm over here in Vancouver. Rushed it near the end and didn’t leave enough time for comping, but that’s the point of it…right?
http://vimeo.com/35868090
here’s my entry. 3rd attempt at posting on this forum…
http://vimeo.com/35867157
cheers!
who needs dynamics? manual ball animations. good exercise.
http://vimeo.com/35867941
You keyframed that? wow.
hope i’m not too late!
http://vimeo.com/35709658
Challanging theme! A little late, but fun project.
http://vimeo.com/35868920
Cutting it close, lot’s o’ fun though. SO many great submissions! Thanks for putting these on, Nick!
http://vimeo.com/35869158
I hope its not too late! =(
This is my entry
http://vimeo.com/35870459
I had to post my projectlink into the comments?
http://vimeo.com/35816563
Hi,
I submitted my video on Saturday evening (here in Brussels, Belgium) as it don’t appear on the vimeo channel and to be sure, here is the URL:
http://vimeo.com/35801889
Thx
Same here subscribed and posted my vid yesterday but don’t see it… let’s wait a little more here the link again just to be sure… : http://vimeo.com/35844095 .peace
I also submitted my video on Saturday night but am not seeing it on the channel yet? I’ll paste my link here also in hopes one of them works?
http://vimeo.com/35816530
I submitted it 2 Days ago. Just to get some attention & feedback!
Check it out
http://vimeo.com/35810588
KEKOTIVITY !
That’s pretty cool. I love the paper look. what did you make it in?
Thanks mate.
in Photoshop and AfterEffects
simply Blendmode – Overlay and a Clipping Mask
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ODJ-AAmCM-A
I think someone already did an entry based on that.
I inoportunely removed my video from your channel “Five Seconde Project – “Pinball”".
Is it possible to re-add it to this channel ?
Here is the link of my video : vimeo.com/35837263
Thanks
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