Stopmotionfilm.de hosts the fourth Morph to highlight the best in short stop-motion films. The length should be two minutes and it doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a professional. There are two main topics: best stop-motion quickie and best stop-motion character. The best character of the second category will be assessed by a jury and those of the first category by the audience. For more information, visit www.stopmotionfilm.de.

The Web Marketing Association announces the launch of its fourth annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards is the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. The competition website is located at www.iacaward.org and the deadline for entry is Jan. 31, 2006. 2005 Best of Show Awards were awarded in each of the online medium categories. Last year's winners include: EVB, Inc., TMX Communications, she communications (Hong Kong), Power Design, Organic, Inc., i33 Communications, and Agency.com. Two agencies tied for the 2005 Top Agency Award, Organic, Inc. and TMX Communications, each winning 21 IAC Awards in the show. The Internet Advertising Competition Awards is open to all organizations and individuals (advertising and interactive agencies, corporate marketing departments, etc.) involved in the process of developing Internet advertising. Entries may be submitted online at www.advertisingcompetition.org from now through Jan. 31, 2006 and will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting, and use of the medium. Awards will be presented within each of the 24 industry categories and 16 advertising formats such as email, banner ad, rich-media, interstitial, and online application. This year, "ads the client did not choose" has been changed from an industry to a medium. Best of Show award will be selected from among the category winners. Ads eligible for entry in the competition must have run during the period from Jan. 1, 2005 through Jan. 31, 2006. Judging for the IAC Awards will take place in Feb. 2006, and winners will be notified by e-mail one week prior to the general announcement of winners in March 2006. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet advertising professionals with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web advertising. Past WebAward competition judges have included top executives from leading corporations, institutions and media organizations such as Ogilvy Interactive, Saatchi & Saatchi, Blattner Brunner, Comedy Central, Sun Microsystems, National Cable & Telecom Association, Refinery, Euro RSCG, EPB Interactive, NEW YORK POST Interactive, THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, J. Walter Thompson, Xerox, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Modem Media, Answerthink and Zentropy Partners.

Frames Per Second second annual online charity auction will benefit Canadian Cancer Society: 100% of profits from an eBay auction will be donated to fight cancer. The charity auction cause is selected by the readers of fps earlier in the year. Anyone with Internet access will be able to bid on animation-related items put on eBay by fps. These items include books, CD soundtracks, animation software, posters, pins and DVDs. Some of the highlights for auction this year include: * Gorillaz action figures donated by Kid Robot * Tim Burton's Corpse Bride movie posters, including marquee posters signed by animation co-director Mike Johnson, donated by Warner Bros. * Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding with bookplate signed by Mike Johnson, donated by Newmarket Press * large selection of anime DVDs So break out your holiday lists, or your own personal animation wish list and donate to a worthy charity at the same time! Items were donated by fps and a number of generous organizations, including the Ottawa Animation Festival, the Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema, Geneon, Manga Entertainment, Toon Boom Animation, Ballantine Books and more. Participants who do not want to bid on items can still donate to the Canadian Cancer Society directly, or from the Auction page by clicking the hyperlinked Canadian Cancer Society donation button.

BioWare is holding a contest to find talented writers to help develop its award-winning roleplaying games. BioWare's director of design James Ohlen and assistant director of design Kevin Barrett have agreed to make the process of submitting work as easy as possible for writers looking to work for BioWare. BioWare asks for writers to create a Neverwinter Nights module to tell their story using the Aurora Toolset. There are a lot of options to consider when creating a module in the Toolset, but it is important to remember that BioWare will only be interested in the writing. BioWare will evaluate only the characters, the dialogue, the plot, the non-linear structure and the flow and pace of the story. To be eligible for this contest, submit a Neverwinter Nights module that follows these parameters: * A maximum of four characters. One player character and a maximum of three non-playable characters. * A maximum of 3,500 words in total including dialogue and setting. * You must tell a complete story in the form of a traditional BioWare side-quest and account for different endings/ multiple resolutions. * You are only allowed to use one 4x4 area in the Toolset to tell your whole story. * No combat or special skill use. * Just use the NWN retail toolset; don

CON-CAN Movie Festival is an audience-interactive online film festival targeting shorts. Thirty Grand-Prix nominees will be streamed for global viewing on the audience-interactive website. One Grand Prix ($10,000) and two awards ($3,000) will be chosen by a seven-member international jury comprised of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (film director, Taiwan), Jean-Michel Frodon (chief editor, CAHIERS DU CINEMA, France), Dennis Lim (film critic, VILLAGE VOICE, USA), Babak Payami (film director, Iran), Jukka-Pekka Laakso (director, Tampere Film Festival, Finland), Peter Millynn (pro exec, Australian Film TV & Radio School) and Teruyo Nogami (Kurosawa Production, Japan).

All films must be independently produced, up to 20 min in length, in any language, genre, of any theme. Entry fee is free. More information can be found at www.con-can.com.

The Zoie Films Online Festival celebrates 10 years of independent cinema and showcases the best works from around the globe. This unique forum utilizes the best technology for presentation and allows filmmakers to be seen by an international audience. ZoieFest offers viewers a

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Coverage Ink is hosting it Writers on the Storm script contest where each entry receives a mini-analysis. Top prize for the competition is $2,500. Winner will be read by 75+ companies and have their script developed with Coverage, Ink. Entry fee is $35 or free with any Coverage, Ink analysis. Visit www.writerstorm.com for more info.

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The Second Annual Haydenfilms Online Film Festival welcomes all student and independent films of any genre. A judging panel consisting of film experts and professors from New York University, Central Michigan University, Ohio University School of Film, Rochester Institute of Technology and others will critique each film to elect the finalists that will have their films showcased on the site for two months. Each finalist will receive a Haydenfilms Marketing Kit including merchandise and materials to promote their film on the Haydenfilms website. Members of Haydenfilms are able to view, vote, and write reviews on the films, and the film with the highest average score from valid votes will be awarded the $10,000 grand prize at the awards ceremony at the Director's Guild Theater. The next deadline will be May 15, 2006. Final deadline is July 15, 2006! For full details, visit www.haydenfilms.com/festival.html.