The world's only exhibition that brings together experts from both the fine art establishment and the interactive entertainment industry to explore the art of the video game, Into the Pixel is now accepting submissions for the 2008 collection at www.IntoThePixel.com. Now in its fifth year, Into the Pixel is the one annual opportunity for published video and computer game artists to be recognized by renowned fine art experts, the art-loving public and by their peers in the video game industry. Artists must submit their work by May 21, 2008, for consideration by the ITP jury. Each year Into the Pixel convenes a jury of world-renowned museum curators, gallerists, educators, artists and interactive entertainment art veterans to review the art submitted by video game artists from all over the world. Only 16 pieces are ultimately selected by the jury to be printed by a master printer, framed and hung in the ITP gallery, which then travels around the U.S. and abroad. The highly anticipated 2008 art exhibition will be unveiled to the game industry at the E3 Media & Business Summit, July 15-17, and will open to the public at "Entertainment for All Expo" (E for All), October 3-5, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Into the Pixel was created by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and the Prints and Drawings Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The newly appointed 2008 Into the Pixel Jury: --Louis Marchesano, Curator of Collections, Prints & Drawings, Getty Research Institute --Kevin Salatino, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) --Daniel Dociu, Chief Art Director, NCsoft North America --Richard Duardo, Managing Director and Master Printer, Modern Multiples Fine Art Studio --Tracy Fullerton, Assistant Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Co-Director, Interactive Media Division/Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab --Lorne Lanning, Co-Founder and President, Oddworld Inhabitants --Glenn Phillips, Consulting Curator, Getty Research Institute --Kiki Wolfkill, Executive Producer, Microsoft Game Studios Submissions must be art from published or soon-to-be-published computer and video games, or art that was used in the creation of the games. Artists may submit up to three original works. Deadline is May 21, 2008 at Midnight (PT). Interested artists should visit www.IntoThePixel.com for more detailed information or to submit artwork.

HiddenAgenda.com is hosting a contest designed for college students with an interest in videogame design with a first place prize of $25,000. Entrants will be tasked with designing and building a new game, with the caveat that it must include

Zoie Films Festival is open to feature films, film shorts, documentaries, animations, music videos and mixed media projects utilizing innovative techniques. A media panel judges all entries and winning films are showcased online via special screenings available at high-speed Internet connections. Zoie Films utilizes the latest encryption technology to present the finest quality streaming programs. Zoie Films Festival presents certificates, prizes and awards in animation, drama, comedy, action and new media forms. Founded by Victoria Lynn Weston in 1996, Zoie Films Festival is an exclusive online film festival dedicated to the development of independent artists and exploring innovative exhibitions of their work. The early deadline is December 1, 2003. For more information, contact e-mail: info@zoiefilms.com or Web: www.ZoieFilms.com.

January 13, 2004 Deadline: November 12, 2003 Celebrating a small niche of the advertising industry, the Website Gamespot.com is hosting the First Annual Game Commercial Awards. The contest hopes to recognize the best and most creative gaming commercials on television. Game companies are invited to enter any and all TV commercials, which will be viewed and voted on by GameSpot's audience of nearly 900,000 daily unique gamers. Commercials will be promoted on GameSpot.com between Thanksgiving Day November 27, 2003 and New Year's Day, with the winners announced on January 13, 2004. Online entries must be received by Wednesday, November 12, 2003.

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ZOOLOOK Entertainment (the creators of FlashTV) and (mt) Media Temple, Inc. proudly present The Greatest Story Never Told, a digital storytelling competition sponsored by Macromedia, with additional support from 5inch, Animation World Network (AWN), Alien Skin Software, Bulaja Naklada, Computer Arts, Discreet, Electric Rain, Expression, Final Draft, FlashAnts, Friends of Ed, Hewlett-Packard, Killersound, .net, New Riders, Peachpit Press, SXSW Interactive, TechNow and Well Vetted.

The Greatest Story Never Told competition is designed to encourage and promote the use of Macromedia Flash MX to produce original stories for the web, video, television, film and interactive entertainment. Artists are given three months to produce an original story using Flash MX or any 3rd party software that exports to the .swf platform. Their story must be between 2:00 and 20:00 minutes in length and based on one of the FlashTV genres (www.flashtv.com). The competition is open to novice and intermediate storytellers worldwide! Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2004. Winners announced February 25, 2004.

To learn more about the competition, view the incredible prize list or to submit your original story for consideration, visit http://www.thegreateststorynevertold.com.

AnimationHQ is hosting a chat with talented and veteran animator, Heidi Guedel. She spent time at Disney, Don Bluth Productions and Warner Brothers. She has worked on many Feature Animation titles including The Secret of NIMH, The Fox and the Hound, An American Tail, and Quest for Camelot. In addition, she did character layout for Rough Draft Studios (Futurama), worked in multimedia at Vortex Media Arts, and worked on videogame animation for the classic 80's laserdisc games "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace". The chat will take place on Saturday, December 6th at 8 pm EST. You can go to http://animationhq.net/v2/features/events.htm for more information on him and the directions on how to get to the chat room located towards the bottom of the page. Don't miss it!

Linden Lab, creator of online world Second Life, and The Game Initiative, an organization that supports game developers worldwide, announced the Second Life Game Developer

Discreet and Mobile Game have launched the first international 3D mobile gaming competition. With more than $50,000 worth value in prizes to be awarded, this contest will enable independent mobile gaming artists or developers, traditional PC/console game developers and 3D freelance to carry out their creative concepts for mobile games. This international competition is supported by Discreet, Nokia, Orange, In-fusio, Fathammer, IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, Criterion, Ideaworks3D and Kaolink.

Targeting 3D as well as 2.5D mobile gaming, the contest is divided into two main categories -- Downloadable or Non-Downloadable mobile games -- that will focus on exploiting the newest, cutting-edge technologies and gaming hardware handsets-from current phones to the Nokia N-Gage platform, high-end next generation phones and Java phones. Dependent on specific needs, winning entries will receive prizes that will assist in co-development and co-production of their project. In addition, the best concept developers will receive tool kits for their development. For more information, visit www.3dmobilegamingcontest.com.

Anima Mundi Web 2004 is the 5th edition of the Internet Animation Contest of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi. The contest is open to works specially created for the Internet, which may or not be previously released, produced by professional or amateur animators. There is no restrictions on themes and genres. Works are accepted in a single category: animations produced in the ".swf" format only and not exceeding 1MB in size. A cyber-jury -- anyone who registers online in the Anima Mundi Website -- and the professional jury, will decide the winners. There will be two prizes of R$ 1,500. For more information, visit www.animamundiweb.com.br.