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Closed: Start With A Photo



Update:
The deadline for this project has passed. The winners will be chosen this week. Stay tuned.

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This one should be fun. You must use photos you have taken to make your animation for this weeks theme. Use a photo as the main element in your animation. Why not try something you haven’t done before. Cut out a person or elements from photos. Or, maybe composite something into a photo. Whatever it is, just make sure to take a photo and incorporate it in to your entry.



What Are Five Second Projects?
We all want to make cool shit for our reel right? Sometimes you just need a theme to get you started… Some rules to fight against. Use the theme “Start With A Photo” 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 last week’s theme here.



Rules

  1. 1. The animation can’t be longer than nine seconds. FIVE SECONDS is highly recommended!
  2. 2. The animation must fit the theme.
  3. 3. Only submit animation. Any and all animation forms are accepted (stop motion, hand drawn, cg, 3d, motion design, etc… ). Unmodified, videos will not be accepted, however.



Why Should You Enter? Check out the video…



How Do I Enter my Video?

  • 1. Create a five second animation based on the theme, “Start With A Photo”.
  • 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 November 22nd



It’s really great to see so much participation. Tell a friend about the five second projects and get them involved too. Don’t forget to push yourself to try something new every week. What about a new piece of software or technique you have wanted to try? Take control of your creative output and Make Cool Shit!



Check out the entries below or visit the Vimeo Channel.

Winning Entry

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206 Comments

  2. Rickard Bengtsson

    Sounds great!

    Just got to find someone with a decent photo camera.

    Reply

  4. Liam Dunlop

    It’s Holga, Lomo, Leica, Minox Spy, Pin-Hole, Diana, Polaroid Time!

    Reply

  5. Neal Carroll

    Dude! No freaking way! I was just about to start working on a very similar project! Then I see this.

    This is going to be awesome!

    Reply

  10. A3

    Hi Nick, great theme! Is it mandatory that I take the photo? I don´t have a decent camera. Could I use some cool photo I find online or something like that?

    Reply

  11. Serge

    Ah…Nick…I am going to have to think….Darn, I dont do that very often!….

    Reply

  12. Luka

    I find this theme very abstract and challenging. Way harder than last one. :)
    I hope i will be able to come up with something.

    Reply

  14. max

    This kinda a silly question but do we just use A photo or can we use a bunch of them?

    Reply

  15. Luka

    I have a question that is not related to this project directly, i hope it is is ok if i poste it here?

    Do you have any ideas where to get good audio files for projects this and other?

    tnx
    Luka

    Reply

  16. Jivy

    “Video ONLY entries will not be accepted, however.” Kinda sounds like silent entries will not be accepted…? Would I be right in assuming that you mean to say you un-modified videos will not be accepted?

    Reply

    • streeture

      he means it should be any kind of animation and if you shoot only a scene on video it won’t be animation.

      Reply
    • The Gorilla

      The Gorilla

      right. It just means that unaltered videos with no animation will not be accepted. I updated the post to try and make it more clear.

      Reply

  19. Magda

    wow, I hope I will find some time for this one! my 2 favourite things..photography and animation!! maybe even some pixilation or stop motion..or is that “cheating” in some way,just one picture?

    Reply

  22. Manuel

    NIIICKK!! the photo has to be taken by me? or can I download a photo from internet?

    Reply

  23. Christopher S. Knell

    Hi Nick,
    I’ve been enjoying all your tut’s for about 3 weeks now, going through them all on-by-one and having a blast!!
    I put this one together a week or so ago and it just happens to fit the theme of the week’s 5 Sec Project.
    I used Cinema 4D to build the ‘logo’ and did the compositing in AE CS4 Then finished the sound mix in FCP. ( it was originally 14 second but I tightened it up to fit the 5+ secs)
    Thanks for all the tutelage! Keep it coming.
    http://vimeo.com/7548834

    Reply

  27. Luka

    I am sorry but i haven’t found this info:

    What is absolute dead line for this project?

    tnx

    Reply

  29. JonC

    Hey Nick, here’s my submission: http://vimeo.com/7563246

    First five second project but certainly not last :) Yay.

    (P.S. if it looks like there is too much motion in there for photos, read the vid description, I took 3 octo-photos with my iPhone and then 2 extra with a d70).

    Reply

  40. Tor Martin

    I am working on it. Trying out som realflow simulation. It is really killing my computer, and the simulation takes ages.. Luckily, I still have a week to deliver :)

    Great theme Nick!

    Reply

  42. delman

    Hey! :)
    Here is my entry. (First time I’m in this “5 seconds project”) – http://vimeo.com/7614511

    I have a simple question; Can I upload another video too? Or I’m I only allowed to enter with one video?

    Reply

  48. Benjamin Ang

    Hey Nick! Here’s my video!
    http://vimeo.com/7595408

    It would be awesome if you could critic my work so that i can improve it! Thanks a lot for these projects, I’ve learn a lot just from these 5 seconds!

    Reply

  55. Scott Bourne

    Here is my submission. Thanks for doing this. I often try to make up little projects for my reel but I it can be hard to think of something if you don’t have any direction. Having a set topic or theme makes it much easier to get creative. http://www.vimeo.com/7632348

    Reply

  63. Markof

    Great !!! im in, glad to know you guys, i’m sure i’ll learn a lot from you, thanks for the project gorilla, doing my best from this side

    Reply

  66. Austin DuBois

    Hey Nick, I used a photo that I didn’t take myself for the 5 second project, because I didn’t have the kinda of picture I needed and was unable to take one. Can I still submit it to the group for feedback on my work?

    Reply

  67. Florent Bizec

    Hi everybody,
    Sorry if I made several comments, but I can’t see them, I don’t know why…

    Here is my first entry to five second project!

    http://vimeo.com/7663766

    I really enjoyed making it!

    Reply

  69. Torsten

    Hi Nick,
    a friend of mine pointed me to your website. Really nice stuff.

    Here is my five second project. It’s done with XSI and AfterEffects. I took the photo a while back in the Boboli Gardens in Florence.

    http://vimeo.com/7648350

    It was fun making it.

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  74. Daniel Amedoda

    Here is my first entry, this was allot of fun, completed in a night. The image was taken last year when I took a trip in the London docklands with my girl, I used camera projection mapping, in Maya and used after effects to composite. http://vimeo.com/7683545

    Reply

  75. Rafael Guerra

    Hey, i gave the link in my comment previously. Sorry for my newbiness, its the first time I join: Are we supposed to upload our videos in the Vimeo channel for the “Start With A Photo” or just leave them here?

    Reply

  76. Iamyourleader

    Thanks Nick for hosting these 5 Second Projects. It’s great to see all of the different approaches people take.

    http://vimeo.com/7690288

    Comments and critiques are more than welcome.

    Cheers.

    Reply

  84. Telli

    Hi Nick! I got some problems with the compression earlier, so now here it is my project, please add it to the channel.

    http://www.vimeo.com/7678386

    Please watch it in HD, it’s so much better :)

    Thanks!

    Reply

  85. Ross Foerschler

    Ok, Kind of painted my self into a corner. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for creating a equirectangular panorama? Including the stitching process. And, can it even be accomplished with a shite digi camera?

    If not it would be an awesome couple of Tuts Nick!

    Reply

  88. Yusuf

    FINALLY, I finished the challenge this time …

    and … here it is :
    http://www.vimeo.com/7706660

    btw, thanks a lot Nick for that great project, it helps me doing some great and valuable stuff for my reel …

    thanks again, I guess I will cry from happiness :D

    Reply

  98. C+Ck

    http://vimeo.com/7749719

    We’re going to do a lot more 5 sec projects!
    Simple shapes sounds like it’ll be a great motion series too!
    PROPS to everyone who have submitted and will submit!

    Reply

  117. Chris and Kyle

    This one was a combination of a number of mediums. Live model that Chris painted with acrylic paints, then we shot her in a number of different positions, chose the photo, brought it in to photoshop, then Kyle got to work in after effects and our new intern Mike did the sound design… so like 7 or so mediums to make our 5 second piece… good times!

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  118. Chris and Kyle

    This one was a combination of a number of mediums. Live model that Chris painted with acrylic paints, then we shot her in a number of different positions, chose the photo, brought it in to photoshop, then Kyle got to work in after effects and our new intern Mike did the sound design… so like 7 or so mediums to make our 5 second piece… good times!
    http://www.vimeo.com/7764575
    http://www.vimeo.com/7764575

    Reply

    • Emory

      Looks like there was a problem uploading my video. Tried uploading a new video but now it says my time in line is almost 3 hours! I guess that’s what I get for waiting til the last minute.

      Reply

  128. Ray Olsen

    (The date stamp on my submission says November 23rd, but it’s 11:19pm on November 22nd here in Kansas City)

    Reply

  133. StuartAmos

    Hi Nick,

    Here’s another last minute entry, utilizing the amazing time bender powers of Pacific time, Vancouver, where it is 10:49pm.

    Love these projects. Looks like there’s going to be an epic number of entry’s this time round.

    Finger’s crossed: http://vimeo.com/7768637

    Cheers!
    Stu

    Reply

  137. gangly

    A lot of these are very good. But…

    people should not feel forced to include text saying the name of the project!

    Many of these would be far more interesting without random text popping up that has no relation to the visuals!!

    Reply
    • The Gorilla

      The Gorilla

      I totally agree, gangly. I even added a note about “try not to use the words of the theme in the video.” But, It doesn’t seem to be working. :)

      Reply

    • Mattsky

      I add my text after my 5 sec animation, so if its viewed from other sites, my name and title are visible. Not part of the actual animation though. :-)

      Reply

  140. Katie Lauffenburger

    Hey Nick,

    I’m new to 5 Second Projects and I posted my link on the Channel Shout Box. My video wasn’t added to the channel and I thought it was either because I uploaded it after midnight or that you just didn’t see it. It looks like some other people entered late last night or today, so I thought I’d post again here.

    http://www.vimeo.com/7768917

    I’ll get it in earlier next time. :)

    Reply

  145. Anjelica Woodson

    Great site. Plenty of helpful information here. I am sending it to several friends ans also sharing in delicious. And of course, thank you for your effort!

    Reply

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