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The organizers of the annual Brick Fest would like to announce the Brick
Fest 2003 Animation Competition to be held during the gathering on August 8,
9, and 10 in Arlington, Virginia.
The Brick Fest ‘03 Animation Competition this year will encompass music
videos. Any category of music may be used from classical to rock, show tunes
to sound tracks, and new wave to heavy metal. You may produce your own music
or borrow from a published work. The music video may be an original work,
parody the music, make fun of the artist, or be a creative interpretation of
the original music video. The music must be appropriate to an audience
consisting of children, adults, and your parents. Any music video not
meeting this criteria in either the visual or auditory elements will not be
included in the competition.
The Brick Fest 2003 Animation Competition will award three awards for this
category. The Audience Choice for Best Music Video will be the music video
that the audience likes best from all of the entries shown. The criteria
that each audience member uses to make this selection are unknown. The Best
Technical Animation will be chosen by the Brick Fest 2003 Organizers to have
the best animation techniques and video techniques employed in the
production of the animation. The Best of Show Award will go to the animation
entry that is considered by all of those in attendance at the convention to
be the best of all the entries. The Best of Show will be given to the video
with the best presentation and technical aspects. A single entry may not win
more than one award but a single animator or group or animators may win more
than one award.
The rules are simple and will be adhered to exactly as laid out in this
announcement. Any variation will result in disqualification from the
competition.
The animation techniques used may include stop motion, computer-generated,
or traditional cell animation. With respect to stop motion, the Animation
Competition showcases the talents of stop-motion animators using LEGO®
System products including bricks, mini-figs, and other elements. The use of
LEGO® System products must constitute a majority of materials used in the
production of the animated film. The use of non-LEGO® System products is
permitted when used as part of the story and as long as their use does not
constitute a majority of the materials used as determined by the Bricks Fest
2003 Animation Festival Committee.
Cell animation must use original drawings or original materials and may not
use any materials produced by the LEGO® Group. Hand drawn cells, cut-outs,
and a combination of LEGO® Bricks and drawings maybe used in the production
of a cell animation work. Computer-generated animation may include cad drawn
or hand drawn and scanned imagery, but must be compiled and edited using a
computer.
Please note that all three animation techniques will be combined in the same
competition and their merits will be judged equally. It is assumed that no
one technique is better or more superior to the other. The idea is to
encourage animators in different styles to produce a work or to encourage
animators that may not have specific equipment or materials to produce an
animation in the medium of their choosing.
All entries to the Animation Competition are limited to 4 minutes or 240
seconds of video. Credits and other information regarding the music video
are allowed but must fall within the 4 minute time limit. Any video
exceeding this time limit will simply be cut in the editing process when all
entries are combined into a single video tape.
All entries must be original to this competition. Any video previously
released prior to Brick Fest 2003 or previously entered into any animation
competition ever will be disallowed. Any animation that is re-edited for the
purpose of this competition will be disallowed. All entries must be in
production prior to this announcement or begin production following this
announcement. Production includes pre-production, filming, and
post-production. Basically, if you had begun something, but have not yet
released it to the public, then the music video can be considered for this
competition.
All entries must be submitted on VHS or Mini-DV video cassette tape in the
NTSC standard. All video tape cassettes must be labeled with the group or
individual name, name of the music video and the name of the band or musician.
Other media, such as DVD will be considered if the animator contacts the
Committee Chair at the contact information provided below. Failure to make
prior arrangements with the Animation Competition Committee or to submit the
entries on VHS or Mini-DV video cassette tape in the NTSC standard will
result in disqualification. The reason for this may not be clear to all, but
it has to do with the inability to convert the wide variety of computer
video formats to video tape. Since video tape is the friendliest method of
showing video to an audience, this is the method chosen for this
competition. Not wishing to limit animators based on their equipment
limitations, the Animation Competition Committee will try to assist the
animator by working out a standard that the committee can work with. This
must be done prior to the submission of the entry though and will not be
done at the last minute. If the committee does not hear from animators by
the beginning of July, all will animators will be considered to be entering
video tape media. The committee will post to the Internet any consultations
that are agreed to with animators.
Contestants need not be present at the Brick Fest 2003 Convention to be
considered in the competition, but your presence if possible is encouraged.
No fee is required for your entry
More than one entry per individual may be submitted on the same video tape
in the same envelope sent to the address listed below. However, due to time
constraints on the Animation Competition, animators must place their videos
in order of preference on the video tape. Each contestant will have their
first video placed in the competition. If there is sufficient time left in
the competition, the second video on their video tape will be entered into
the competition. If there are more contestants than time allows for the
first video on each tape to be shown, then the organizers of the Brick Fest
2003 will pre-select which entries will be considered for the competition.
The selection criteria will be posted on the Internet in the event that this
happens.
The time allotted for the Animation Competition is 60 minutes.
All entries must be accompanied by an entry form. Please visit the Brick
Fest web site at http://www.brickfest.com for an entry form that you must
fill out and send in with the video.
The submission deadline for all entries is Monday, July 28, 2003. All
entries must be received at the address below on that date. Any entry
received after that date will be returned, unopened to the sender. Keep in
mind that this means that you must send and have the package or parcel post
marked prior to that date in order for it to be received on time.
Entries may be returned to the sender if a self-addressed and postage paid
return mailer is included. The sender must either double box or have a label
provided with the postage paid for a return of their video. This is
potentially more expensive than sending a copy of an original work, but is a
service gladly provided if the sender is willing to pay the cost. Entries
will be returned if they meet these criteria following the Brick Fest 2003
convention.
Please contact the following organizers with comments or questions:
Todd S. Thuma
Todd.Thuma@gactr.uga.edu
706-202-9226
Send entries to:
Brick Fest 2003 Animation Competition
1325 Cedar Shoals Drive
Unit 200
Athens, GA 30605
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