MSI Workstation 2D/3D Animation Short Film Contest

OBJECT :MSI Workstation 2D/3D Animation Short Film Contest
THEME:From Dream to Design –What is your dream? Life dream, dream journey, dream job, or a day dream? MSI Workstation hopes accompany you to reach your dream! Now, put MSI Workstation logo & at least one product photo in your animation work to tell us “what is your dream?”. Everyone will have chance to reach his dream and to win big prizes! Good luck and good dream!
Download MSI logo & product photos
ELIGIBILITY:Open to all creative animation fans, students and professionals. We are on the lookout for daring ideas, new pictures, surprising stories and for anyone who is full of creative ideas, dare to pursue their dreams and make it all possible.
ACTIVITY:15 May 2014 to 28 July 2014
DEADLINE :28 July 2014 02:00:00 GMT
Event Website：http://event.msi.com/nb/2014/short_film/
PRIZES :
3D Film Award
1st Place- 3D Film Award
MSI Workstation - GT70 2OK
Reference Marketing Value (USD): $2599
"MSI GT70 2OK workstation laptop certified by AutoCAD & Solidworks. Equipped with the latest NVIDIA Quadro K3100M graphics. GT70 2OK workstation is your best and most efficient tool to work on animation designs and visualization artworks. (*marketing name may change)"
2nd Place- 3D Film Award
EIZO ColorEdge CX241
Reference Marketing Value (USD): $1599
The CX241 comes with a built-in SelfCorrection sensor that automatically maintains your color settings so you can enjoy its 99% Adobe RGB coverage, brightness uniformity, and other features for creative work.
3rd Place- 3D Film Award
Wacom Tablet Intuos Pro Medium
Reference Marketing Value (USD): $349
Designed for creativity - This innovative pen tablet combines Wacom’s finest pen capabilities with intuitive multi-touch gestures and gives you the precision and control you demand when using professional software and time-savers to speed your workflow.
2D Film Award
1st Place- 2D Film Award
CrazyTalk Animator 2 Pipeline + Essential Content Library 1
Reference Marketing Value (USD): $2299
Include CrazyTalk Animator 2 Pipeline + Essential Content Library 1. CrazyTalk Animator 2 provides an exciting new approach to traditional 2D animation with innovative new tools that allow users to apply 3D motions to 2D characters. New powerful tools have opened new possibilities for freely editing 2D motions and viewing them from any angle with a single click. Combined with functional features like facial puppet and auto lip-sync, it has become the most creative tool for 2D character animation.
2nd Place- 2D Film Award
EIZO Foris FS2332
Reference Marketing Value (USD): $699
"The FORIS FS2332 is a 23-inch home entertainment monitor with an IPS panel, LED backlight, and EIZO's Smart Resolution technology that make it optimal for watching videos, photo editing, and reading digital contents.The IPS panel has 178° viewing angles and exhibits minimal change in contrast and hue when viewed from an angle. The LED backlight reduces the monitor's power consumption and does not contain mercury. "
3rd Place- 2D Film Award
Wacom Tablet Intuos Pro Small
Reference Marketing Value (USD): $249
The Intuos Professional Pen & Touch Small is the ideal small-format choice for anyone with a serious creative passion in photography, art or design. The streamlined size packs a lot of power into a small desktop space and combines Wacom’s finest pen capabilities with intuitive multi-touch gestures.
Jury Favorite Award
Jury Favorite Award
iClone Animation Pipeline + iClone Essential Content Library 1
Reference Marketing Value (USD): $3099
The iClone Animation Pipeline pack includes iClone5 PRO, 3DXchange5 Pipeline,and Mocap Plug-in (software). The iClone Animation Pipeline is a revolution for CG animation and game development. This toolkit contains a complete set of animation tools for quick character generation and smart motion editing, and is supported with an extensive on-line content marketplace. By utilizing intuitive real-time character motion tools alongside Autodesk’s Human IK technology, iClone makes it easy to convert characters and retarget both facial and body animations to your native working environment via standard FBX, BVH and OBJ formats. iClone also supports basic motion capture with Microsoft’s Kinect sensor, which gives you the raw motion data that saves you time and helps to turn your PC into a powerful production studio with minimal cost and increased production speed
Final Winner of MSI 3D Short Film Animation contest coming out!!! Congratulations to all winners and your great works!
MSI will contact you for prize sending. MSI and Reallusion select together the winners by judging the Story Concept and Content- Originality & Creativity(40%), Techniques- 3D techniques, Character & Scenes Design (30%), Brand Messages Embedded Method (20%), Music and Other Design Elements (10%)
http://event.msi.com/nb/2014/short_film/winner.html

Quote from: katapultax10;110785
I submit my entry, does it take in account ? on the contest page it say it is active until 1 september, but on the forum it says it is active until "" DEADLINE :28 July 2014 02:00:00 GMT "" can any admin/administrator reply to see if I`m in ? I call my entry ""MSI - From Ruin to Success "" and it can be watched here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A49PI2MSdQM.
It still uncpmpleted I wait to render the entire project, then It still need a little bit of editing (that is not the problem ..) (render time take a lot especialy on my dual core machine :| :mad:)
Best regards,
Sasu Catalin Iulian
Dear katapultax10,
Thanks for your submission. Your work has been uploaded on the site. thanks!

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Hello all!
Not sure this is the correct place to post this. If I'm in the wrong location, please place this post in the correct location.
Forgive my bad english, ok?
Guys, I know there are many artists here in this forum, so I would ask for help for artists.
I posted a short film yesterday and for lack of time and knowledge of CG, my short film was amateur, I know.
I would ask a help to the artists here and ask how I could improve the effects of this short film?
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Short Film - http://www.epicfilmes.com/cinema/salmo-23-4

The only effect that I saw that looked a little cheesy was the glowing eyes at the end of the film. It was a little too intense and could have use a little more finesse and some better tracking.
The film in general suffers from pacing problems. This is the hardest thing for an editor to learn. It needs to be tightened up so you just show enough to tell the story. I worked on a feature once that spent 6 days on location filming with a crew of more than 50 and a cast of 10. When the final film was released there were only about 4 shots from 6 days of filming final cut because all of that other material didn't contribute to the telling of the final story.
Keep the effects subtle. Move the camera closer to your actors and use wider lenses. Don't move the camera unless the movement emphasizes a plot point. Keep up the good work.

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