Contest Results

Results

Congratulations to all artists for great submissions! We had 25 submitting artists… ranging from up-and-coming animators to established production studios… students to professionals. They came from 5 countries… Turkey, Sweden, England, Germany and the US.

Submissions were judged by Dan Sarto of Animation World Networks (aka AWN.com). At Dan’s request, we added another category to the one’s promised. We now have winners in each of three categories: Best Design, Funniest and Best Overall Card.

1st Place winners will receive iPhones with 6 mos service, 2nd Place winners will receive the iPod Classic (80 gb) and 3rd Place winners will receive the iPod Nano (4 gb).

Would you like another shot at winning? We will soon hold the High-Def Anytime Contest with categories: Birthday, Love and Hi!

And the winners are (I’m getting tingles)…

BEST DESIGN

1st place

Chad Stewart
Holiday Photo Shoot

Dan’s comments:

Nice design, good acting and animation. This was really enjoyable to look at. The movement was well done, the black and white effect was very cool.

2nd place

Walter Santucci
Winter in the City

Dan’s comments:

Nice visual design and timing of scene cuts. Good use of color, angled POV and camera movement.

3rd place

Paul Smith
Christmas Pub

Dan’s comments:

Nice set design, good gag, voice and timing. The models were well done.

honorable mention

Tia Perkins
Christmas Fairy

Dan’s comments:

Nice design, music, timing and style of animation, short, cute, well executed.

FUNNIEST

1st place

Curtis Jobling and Qurios Entertainment

Snow Fall

Dan’s comments:

Good acting, good punchline, good pacing. Though I knew what was coming, I still thought it was funny. Character design was good - funny looking elves simply animated.

2nd place

Paul Smith

Christmas Pub

Dan’s comments:

Funny, fast gag against an excellent stop motion bar set design.