Winners again! 2nd Place for Roxana and 1st Place (public vote) for Cory!

Congratulations to Roxana and Cory for winning the Animation Magazine competition this year!  The dynasty continues!  Thanks to everyone who made the effort to put together a design (or four!) and submit it.  Showing up is half the battle and even if your design didn't get picked, it's still a great thing to show off.  We'll be doing this again next year so start sketching now!

On-line Voting for this year's Reader's Choice

Here's an email from Animation Mag:


We are happy to announce the Pitch Party is now open to voting online. The link is: http://www.animationmagazine.net/pitch-party-2011-vote/ 

Remember, you can only vote once, and voting will be up from Monday, June 20 to Sunday, June 26. 

The pitches/ballots are going to the judges this week and we will notify the winner around the end of the month. We will make an announcement in the newsletter the beginning of July and the issues will be mailed to you around the 2nd week of July. 

Good luck and thanks again!! 

Best wishes!
Animation Magazine

Here they are!

Congratulations to Samantha, Melissa (twice!), Cory, Jen and Roxana!

Close runners-up are: Calamity Janie (Roxana), Monster Ranch (Samantha) and To The Max (Roxana again!)

The fantastic judges who sent me their picks were: Sarah Airriess, Emily Mullock, Ridd Sorensen and Colin Jack!  Thank you very much for your help even though you're all so busy with your own work.

Animation Magazine will publish in August (SIGGRAPH issue!)

And the winners are.....

We had three great judges who chose the winners (I asked for each of their top six and then did the math).  The winners are:

Marco and Polo
Carl
Fat Girl Mystery Club
VA Team
Witch Hazel
Herald's Worst Day Ever

Congratulations to everyone!  I'll be in touch with the winners about delivering the final art to me before the real deadline.  Thanks to everyone who entered and for the devotion to the design work!

Last minute submission!

last pitch?

more of a speed painting then anything, non the less here mine.

2 Hours to go!

Great work everyone!

Judging will commence at noon (from a number of judges) and the six winning designs will be posted later tonight (9 o'clock approx).

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on these.

VA Team

It took me almost a week, but I finally came up with the write up. Couldn't find the right words for the life of me.

Probably the last one from me.

some ideas

I wish I could do more this was fun.

DEADLINE is WEDNESDAY, June 8th

Yikes, I messed up the day/date.  The right info was the date, the 8th, which is tomorrow noon (Thanks Roxy for spotting that and letting me know!).  So if you need more time, go for it.  I'm really impressed with the level of work and the number of entries.  Good luck!


Don

Still fiddling with the pitch line for this one but I put it up just in case I don't get to it in time.

Aaaand another one from me!

I had a lot of fun doing the artwork for this one :)

Some entries! :)

I'm working with the theory that if I do up a few I might get one in...

I have two versions for Sweater Boy... I'm not sure which one I like better...

Someone please let me know if the colors look weird, my monitor's being a pain in the butt D:

Another one from me!

Herald's Worst Day Ever!

If I have time, I might reword the second half of the pitch but for now, here it is!

Sixth pitch in! Time Key

Fifth pitch in! Roller Rats

Planning on adding text when I figure out how to word it right.

Fourth pitch in! Spellthread

Third pitch in! Epic & Win

Private Blog

Okay, I've closed this off to the public....only the artists submitting can now view the work.  Deadline looming....let's see those designs!

Cool, second pitch in! Lacie Ghost Detective

Sweet, first pitch in! Balloon Mysteries

Pitch Party Returns!

Animation Magazine has just announced their latest Pitch Party and I know you're ready for this because you've known about it for at least 8 months!  It's your chance to keep the dynasty of Cap design intact.


Read the instructions below, take note of the deadline, view last year's blog (now open to visitors) see last year's winners and prizes and get your design(s) in!


Commercial Animation is buying a full page (six "pitches") and we need your designs to fill the space. Each pitch would normally cost you $375 US but we're going to cover it because it helps us get the word out that we have such an awesome group of artists.


So to be entered (for free) you must enter our mini-competition whose winners will have their work submitted to Animation Magazine's competition (and be published).

Capilano's Pitch Party Procedure

1. Important: email me (Don) and let me know you're interested in entering the Pitch Party Blog (and then accept the email invitation) so you can post to the blog: http://pitchparty2011.blogspot.com 

2. Post as many designs as you like.  Read the instructions to make sure you know what the magazine is looking for. Though it would be nice to have six different students represented, there's no rule that says the same person can't win two out of the six spots and this has happened in the past.

3. The  Capilano competition closes at 12 o'clock noon, Tuesday, June 8, 2011 and our judges will choose the Cap winners that afternoon.  Each judge will give me a ranked list of their 6 favorite entries.  The pitches with the highest ranking will make the Animation Magazine pitch party.  Judges may comment on your work and you can make changes.  Winners will need to submit HI-RES image files (TIFF) to me by email by June 9th. I will send them on to Animation Magazine later that day.

You may post early and get feedback from people. Once posting begins, only invited blog members will be able to visit the blog until the judging starts.

4. Judges will be selected from the industry.
6. Submit:
a) An image, EXACTLY 2.25 inches wide by 4.875 inches high (If you're using TV Paint, the equivalent is 1350 pixels wide by 2923 pixels high).
b) Up to 30 words (part of the artwork) to pitch the idea or character
c) The title of your Pitch (optional on artwork)
d) Contact information (email address and maybe your blog address if you've got a killer blog that you want people to visit)

e) Email me your name, title of pitch, email address and phone number that I will forward with the artwork. They need this info so they can contact you when you win.


Important! Check out past entries (below) to research why pitches won and which designs looked crappy! When designing, watch out for: text too small to read, bad composition/negative space, cramped layout from trying to get too much in, unappealing characters or ones that lack personality, sick colours or too many colours, boring concept or one that's been done to death or one that's offensive or too adult....they're looking for "fresh" and "kid-friendly".


Want to see our first pitch party blog? Click here:http://pitchparty.blogspot.com/
Last year's blog is at http://pitchparty2010.blogspot.com

Want to see the 2008 Animation Mag entries? Click here:
http://www.animationmagazine.net/pitch_party_08_vote.html

Good luck!  If you have any questions, please email Don