Digital Art & Animation Students Accepted the 24 Hours Animation Challenge
Tue, 12 November, 2019 at 2:01 pm
Fifteen Digital Art & Animation students (three teams of five
each) recently participated in the “24 Hours Animation Challenge” created by
the California State University, Long Beach Animation Department. The teams
gathered at 3 p.m. on Friday, and were given the prompt: “family.” From there,
the students had 24 hours to come up with a story idea, characters, and up to
30 seconds of animation showcasing their interpretation of the prompt. Once complete, the teams uploaded their work
to the YouTube page of the competition before 3 p.m. on Saturday. Professor
Paul Naas supervised the groups in the studio during the challenge, but was
prohibited from helping them in any way.
The challenge is in its 17th year, and this year had
over 200 student teams competing from nine different countries. All three
Cañada College student teams finished their films, including one team that
decided to do their film in a software package that none of them knew before
the challenge. When the list of winners was announced, our students learned
their films ranked higher than some of the submissions from highly regarded
animation schools.
Despite being exhausted and a little loopy at the end, all the
students who took part want to do it again next year. The three
shorts produced will be screened in the Digital Art & Animation Student
Show in May 2020.
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