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24-Hour Animation Challenge Announces 2014 Winners

Student team from California State University, San Jose wins nationwide competition to create 30-second animated short in just 24 hours.

Students at colleges and universities across the country (and, for the first time, in Canada and Australia!) fired it up all night long for the seventh annual 24-Hour Animation Contest, a nationwide competition to create 30-second animated films in 24 hours on a specific theme.

This year’s theme -- “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” -- was given to competitors at 5:00PM on Friday, September 26. The quote for this year’s theme was taken from George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “Animal Farm.”

In all, 52 films were completed. The schools that participated in the challenge were California State University Chico, California State University Fullerton, California State University Long Beach, California State University Northridge, Kendall College of Art and Design, Middle Tennessee State University, San Jose State University, South Dakota State University, Westwood College - Anaheim and Woodbury University. International schools participating for the first time included Queensland University of Technology, Sheridan College and Seneca College.

Prizes included scholarships to CSU Summer Arts 2015, full 3-day passes to CTNX, one-year ASIFA-Hollywood Associate memberships, and one-year licenses for TOONBOOM Storyboard Pro and Animate Pro.

The full list of winners is shown below:

1st place: Deflated
California State University, San Jose 
PRIZES: Five $1,000 scholarships to CSU Summer Arts 2015; five full 3-day passes to CTNX; TOONBOOM Storyboard Pro and Animate Pro (1-year license)

2nd place: The Mane Suspect 
QUT, Australia
PRIZEs: Five $500 scholarship to CSU Summer Arts 2015; five permanent licenses to Digicel Flipbook Studio; TOONBOOM Storyboard Pro and Animate Pro (1-year license)

3rd place: Mathemanimals 
California State University, Chico
PRIZE: Five $250 scholarship to CSU Summer Arts 2015; five Wacom Intuos Pen Small; TOONBOOM Storyboard Pro and Animate Pro (1-year license)

4th place: Dig In
Sheridan College, Canada
PRIZE: Five Stuart NG Books $50 gift certificates; five Disney Feature Animation prize packs (Drawn to Life Vol.1 and Vol.2 and Disney Merchandise); TOONBOOM Storyboard Pro and Animate Pro (1-year license)

5th place: The Graduates
California State University, San Jose
PRIZE: Five one-year ASIFA-Hollywood Associate memberships; five DreamWorks prize packs (DreamWorks Books and Merchandise); TOONBOOM Storyboard Pro and Animate Pro (1-year license)

Judges for this year’s challenge included LAIKA’s Ira Owens, Shadow Machine’s Mike Roberts, Joey Jones of the Ayzenberg Group, and Blizzard Entertainment’s Hunter Grant.

Sponsors for the event were CSU Sumer Arts, Creative Talent Network, Digicel, Toon Boom, Wacom, ASIFA-Hollywood, Disney Feature Animation, DreamWorks Feature Animation and Stuart NG Books.

Check out the rest of the films created for this year’s challenge in the player below:

Source: 24-Hour Animation Challenge

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Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.