January 28th, 2008 by admin
MochiAds and Gaia Online are proud to present the ’Become a Rock Star‘ Flash Game Contest, featuring up to $25,000 in prizes, and the opportunity to secure a professional game development contract. Deadline is before midnight PST April 1, 2008!!
January 28th, 2008 by admin
Call For Entries
By: American Design Awards
SAN DIEGO, California, January 10, 2008 – The American Design Awards is inviting graphic and web designers from around the world to participate in its 2008 Winter Semi-Annual Design Contest. The Winter and Summer Semi-Annual Design Contests which are now in their sixth year, are the flagship of the American Design Awards which attract an average of five thousand participants annually.
Deadline to submit entries for the 2008 Winter Semi-Annual Design Contest is February 15, 2008. Applications must be submitted online through the American Design Awards website.
The top three entries in each of the twenty-two design categories will be considered for the Award of Design Excellence – this award is presented to designers or design firms who display outstanding design and creative abilities, while maintaining high ethical standards.
The American Design Awards mission is to provide a fair and ethical platform for all graphic and web designers of varying experience levels and disciplines to compete on, while providing a worldwide audience to showcase to.
With the ever-changing landscape of the design industry, the American Design Awards is also expanding its code of ethics by which designers are graded and judged. “Ethical standards have always been valued and exercised in our competitions; this is by far the most important qualification of any designer entering the awards program” said Kevin Javid, Vice President of the American Design Awards.
“Our organization’s mission and the purpose of our events are to strengthen and emphasize ethical practices in our participants, benefiting both the designer as well as the design industry as a whole.”
For more information regarding the entry process, including the various design categories, entry fees, and timelines, please click here.
January 21st, 2008 by admin
Complete Competition Details Here…
The current theme is: I Am Thinking..
To celebrate Allmightys one year anniversary, we are launching an open t-shirt design ideas competition. We want your ideas, about anything and everything. Show us what you are thinking, what interests you and what we should be thinking. Anything goes!
Important Dates:
Competition Announced: 7th January 2008
Submission Deadline: 11th February 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting/Scoring Starts: 12th February 2008, AM GMT
Voting/Scoring Ends: 3rd March 2008, 23.00 GMT
SUBMIT DESIGNS
New to T-Shirt Design? Why not check out our T-Shirt Design Guide.
Please also make sure you read the rules.
January 15th, 2008 by admin
This is more of a film deal, but they also take animation, so I’m posting it!
Independent Exposure 2008: 13th Season
A Worldwide Screening Program of International Short Films, Videos and Digital Works
Curated by Microcinema International and Asthmatic Kitty Records
Presented by Panasonic Broadcast
Deadline For Submission: February 29, 2008
Entrance Fee: $US 5
Screenings: San Francisco, Asthmatic Kitty Unusual Animals Events, Other Events Worldwide
Grand Prize:
Panasonic AG-HSC1U 1/4″ 3-CCD High Definition Video Camera
Selected Asthmatic Kitty Discography (20 most recent releases) and Garments
Second Prize:
Selected MicrocinemaDVD.com Catalog ($500 worth)
Selected Asthmatic Kitty Discography (10 most recent releases) and Garments
Third Prize:
Selected MicrocinemaDVD.com Catalog ($250 worth)
Selected Asthmatic Kitty Discography (5 most recent releases) and Garments
What We Are Looking For: We are considering short video, film and digital-media submissions of 15 minutes or less and are seeking narrative, artistic, humorous, dramatic, animation, documentary, experimental, alternative, avant-garde, ambient, music videos, and underground works of all genres, formats, and styles.
We are primarily interested in innovative artistic presentation and storytelling.
Please read our Submission FAQ and Terms
To submit, go through the Checklist, then submit your information online and you can also pay your fee online.
For extra information, e-mail: submissions@microcinema.com
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Since its inception in 1996, Independent Exposure has been a curatorial effort designed to bring the newest and most innovative short films to an untapped, broader audience by using non-traditional venues. These showcases are exhibited in non-traditional venues or “microcinemas” such as galleries, cafes, bars, nightclubs, outdoors, and other alternative spaces that support the independent arts. To date, Independent Exposure has been presented hundreds of times in 44 countries plus Palestine and Antarctica and at base camp on Mt. Everest.
Beyond regular San Francisco and Houston events, screenings in 2007 included a film festival in Ithaca, NY, a full screening of every 2007 IE edition in Alaska, a widely covered Halloween screening in San Francisco, a showing of films at Virgin Mobile Fest and a screening of Independent Exposure at one of Asthmatic Kitty Record’s curated Unusual Animals show in Houston.
Since 2005, Independent Exposure has teamed up with a partner to curate the screening programs and select prize winners and a “best-of” selection. Recent partners include Addictive TV and Hal Hartley.
Asthmatic Kitty is currently one of the most influential independent record labels in the United States, and is an ideal co-curator for Independent Exposure 2008. “From the beginning ‘musical’ film and video have played a central role in our program,” says founder Patrick Kwiatkowski. “So a curator with an eye for music is going to yield an interesting program. Asthmatic Kitty is less a label than a curator of music, bands, and musicians with a focused, yet evolving mission. They are a perfect partner and I can’t wait to see how they apply themselves to the film arts.”
“Microcinema mirrors the Asthmatic Kitty values of community and a love for innovation and creativity. Within minutes it was obvious that they were a family that we wanted to marry into,” said A&R/Development Director Michael Kaufmann
Asthmatic Kitty also brings a festival component to the 2008 series. The label hosts “Unusual Animals” in various cities around the country. It is a curated showcase of regional musical talent and in 2008 a film component will be added.
About Asthmatic Kitty – asthmatickitty.com
Born in 1999, Asthmatic Kitty Records was originally conceived as a platform for musical projects by a community of artists from Holland, Michigan, a small city on the shoreLake Michigan. Some were Holland natives, and others had come to attend local colleges and universities. While the original Holland nucleus has now dispersed to various parts of the country, the fellowship is still growing, with new friends and shared projects with other independent labels. Asthmatic Kitty is now based in Lander, Wyoming, Indianapolis, Indiana and New York City.
Current artists on the label include: Bunky – Castanets – Cryptacize – Future Rapper, et al. – Half-handed Cloud – Liz Janes – My Brightest Diamond – Rafter – Chris Schlarb – Shapes and Sizes – Sufjan Stevens – The Curtains.
Asthmatic Kitty was named after Sara, a voluptuous orange and white longhair who wandered out of the woods in 1995, pregnant, starving, and afflicted with various parasites and ailments, including feline asthma. Although she still wheezes a bit, especially when being chased by her sister Tabby, Sara today enjoys a healthy and happy life of luxury. Cast-off animals make the best pets!
About Microcinema International – www.microcinema.com
Microcinema’s first activity was producing Independent Exposure. From our activities in presenting this program a film distribution business was born.
Microcinema International is now a leading specialty distributor of the moving image arts. Microcinema International specializes in the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced works of an artistic and socially-relevant nature. Microcinema’s mission is to seek out, curate, exhibit, promote, and distribute compelling works to a broad audience via existing and emerging mediums. Through Microcinema’s own DVD label Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, a unique and diverse catalogue of international DVD titles are distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales channels worldwide.
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info taken from Drawn! the illustration and cartooning blog
January 10th, 2008 by admin
A scholarship is being offered for cartoonists in their JUNIOR/SENIOR year of COLLEGE! The deadline is January 31st, so check it out!
January 3rd, 2008 by admin
Friends of Lulu is having an initiative to redesign their mascot! Deadline is the end of January 2008. Check out the information here –>
December 30th, 2007 by admin
Spectrum
Spectrum Fantastic Art is still accepting submissions for its next Art Book, Spectrum 15. The deadline is January 25, 2008 and there is an entry fee. Read the FAQ carefully! You won’t get your entry back (so don’t send originals!), nor are you paid for this even if you get your entry in the book. You do get a free book, however, + bragging rights, I suppose ^_^
They seem to have several art books that they do based on mediu/theme, though they all seem to be about digital art. Their entry information seems to be sorely lacking until you register yourself, so I have no idea if there’s an entry fee, etc. The books they produce are EXPOSÉ (touted as the book displaying the “Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe”), Elemental ( “the world’s best discreet art” — a 3D art book), Exotique ( “the world’s most beautiful CG characters” — obviously all digital work), and Painter ( “the world’s finest painter art”). They have serveral turotial type books and their FAQ does say they are always looking for people to write awesome books. SO check them out — it’s pretty niched though, in my opinion– very 3D oriented and all digital. To each their own though! 
December 27th, 2007 by admin
The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee sponsors the SpaceTime Student Competition & Exhibition.
The SpaceTime competition is an international juried exhibition for students currently enrolled in school who are working in computer graphics and digital arts. The exhibition captures the state of creative computer-based student work and acts as an annual slice of the computer graphics continuum. Primary, secondary, and college or university students are encouraged to apply and the submissions will be handled separately.
Accepted art and projects will be on exhibit at the annual SIGGRAPH conference, and will also tour nationally and internationally for approximately one year with the SpaceTime Traveling Student Exhibition conducted by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee.
The exhibition will encompass three general areas:
In the print area, there are two categories, digital print and poster design. In the digital print category there is no assigned theme; selections will be based solely upon artistic merit. Artists may incorporate a variety of media and materials. Experimental prints on various materials are encouraged. Examples include ricepaper, wallpaper, silk, rawhide, wood, stone, metal etc. In the poster design category, we are looking for posters that depict the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference theme, “Evolve.” Works may include text as long as it suits the theme. A minimal use of text is suggested.
Animation and video entries may be character, visual effects, or fine art animations or may be narrative in nature and created individually or by a group. They should not exceed five minutes in length.
The submission must be interactive. People must be able to experience the project directly, individually or in small groups. Entries may be desktop or web based, or be physical interactive installations.