Animation Challenge
To help you bridge the gap between your college course and university we’re inviting you to take part in a brand new competition aimed at college students and applicants. You’ll be tasked with creating your own designs, concepts, art assets, animations or visual effects towards solving a brief. Students who submit will have a chance to win some fantastic prizes.
There are a variety of briefs available, including:
- Animation
- Games Art
- Concept Art for Games and Film
- CGI and Visual Effects
Each of the briefs are designed to be a good indication of the sort of work you’ll be doing on the course. The technology required to complete the challenge is freely available online and we’ll also be providing some helpful links to videos if you’ve never used the software before.
To help you along the way we’ll be looking to organise some virtual workshops which you can take part in. Hopefully give you a few ideas that you take away and apply to your own project.
Prizes will be award to 1st , 2nd and 3rd place. All prize winners and honourable mentions will recieve a certificate.
ANIMATION
Surprise
Create a short, looping animated GIF based on the theme of SURPRISE.
This may seem simple on the surface, but an effective GIF is often a complex idea that has been refined into a memorable, funny or clever series of images that remains powerful after several viewings.
A loop is a cycle of action that starts and ends in the same way, so it will seamlessly play again and again.
You may create your GIF in any way you want – drawings, models, live action, photographs etc. - but it must be appropriate for ALL audiences (so no inappropriate content!)
Technology/Software Required:
You can create your GIF in as high- or low-tech approach as you want, but you will require as a minimum an App. like ‘Gif Maker’ or similar and a camera.
You could also use Photoshop – if you have access to this. Whatever your approach – you WILL need your imagination!
How to Submit
To submit your work you'll need to create an account on here (itch.io) first
You should then be able to go into your profile and create a project containing screenshots/videos/links of your work.
You can then submit this newly created project to this "Jam"