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Five Second Project Winner – “CMYK”

August 12, 2010

Congratulations to Florian Geyer for winning the CMYK five second project. His simple, but effective animation has some really sexy key-framing going on and is tied super duper tight to the audio track. But, more importantly this piece speaks to the subtractive nature of the CMYK process and tells a simple story though the [...]

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Five Second Project “CMYK” – CLOSED

July 12, 2010

UPDATE 2: Hey everyone this is Neal. So here is the low down on what is happening and why a lot of entries have not been posted. A couple of days before the deadline Vimeo updated their privacy settings, and that screwed up everyones videos that they uploaded. I was not able to add any [...]

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Winners of the Five Second Project, “Nude No More”

June 24, 2010

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Congrats to steve morel aka ekion for winning the “Nude No More” five second project. This piece was chosen by threadless to be their favorite. I think it’s pretty darn great too. Doesn’t hurt that my face ended up in the piece (hehe). The winner will get a package including the “Photographer” shirt sexily modeled [...]

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Five Second Project “Nude No More” – Closed

June 7, 2010

We have an awesome sponsor for this Project. Threadless is giving away two great prize packages including The T-Shirt, “Photographer” that I modeled above. Make a Five Second animation based on the theme “Nude No More” and submit it using the form below to enter the contest. The winner will get a package including the [...]

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Winner of the Five Second Project, “Countdown”

June 3, 2010

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Congrats to Tridente Brand Firm for winning the “Countdown” five second project. This spot combined simple visual and audio metaphors to create a cohesive countdown to zero in all mediums. The spot starts off with 5 sided shapes and reduces itself down through the seconds all the way to one dot in the center [...]

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Five Second Project “Countdown” – CLOSED

May 17, 2010

Thanks for participating in this Five Second Project! It is now closed. We have over 150 entries! This is going to one hard contest to judge!
Five Four Three Two One! Lets start a countdown! Maybe it is a birthday? Or New Years? Who knows, lets just start counting down!
This one is all about counting those [...]

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Winners for “Straight Lines Only” Five Second Projects

May 13, 2010

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Wow! With over 200 entries, this Five Second Project has become the most entered Project to date! With all those great entries, it was also the hardest to judge. After much deliberation, I think this spot by joshua catalano, with it’s 8 bit style transitions and lovely “straight” logo shows great variation in technique and [...]

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Five Second Project “Straight Lines Only” – CLOSED

April 21, 2010

UPDATE – Thanks for all the great entires. Over 200! Stay tuned for the next project. Winners will announced soon.

Straight lines are everywhere! Sometimes we take them for granted. So for this five second project lets see what you can do with them.
What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our [...]

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Winners of the Five Second Project, “Self Portrait”

March 22, 2010

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Contgratsulation to Adam Rosenbaum for winning the “Self Portrait” Five Second Project. His animation is packed with small detials that explain many different parts of his life. It even takes multiple viewings to see all of the elements. The fun nature of the animation really tells me a lot about Adam’s attitude as well. Great [...]

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Five Second Project “Self Portrait”

February 15, 2010

This one is all about YOU! Make a five second animation about yourself. What you like, what you do, what you know, what you LOVE. Anything really. Just make it personal.
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 [...]

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