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The 48x2 Animation Project

Are you an animator or always wanted to try animating. The 48 Hour Film Project has a competition specifically for you. You will have 4 days (from May 13 - 17, 2020) [the normal contest is two days] to create an animated short film. All types of animation are acceptable (including live action composited with animation).

2D and 3D Clay-mation Stop Motion Machinima

Just like the regular 48HFP, you will receive your assignment (electronically): a genre, a character [name and occupation, male or female, e.g. Don or Donna Smith, an Uber Driver], a prop [e.g. book, taco, screwdriver] and a line of dialogue [e.g. "It's my first time.", "I can't hear you.", etc.] Your team will have 4 days to create a 2 - 5 minute animated film. [The normal contest is 4 to 7 minutes] Each team will get their choice between two assigned genres. Out of utmost caution during these difficult pandemic times, your team is limited to those people you live with and/or anyone you partner with remotely. Health and safety is paramount.

Registration Fees $30 USD/team ends Wed, May 13 The winner of Best Film of the 48x2 Animation Project will receive a trophy at Filmapalooza and will be shown during our 48HFP screening at the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner 2021.

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The genres have not been listed yet, but usually there are two groups of about ten each, the first group fairly standard (drama, comedy, horror, etc.) and the second group more unusual (martial arts, generation gap, disaster). You get one genre from each group and can pick either one, and can also mix genres as long as one of the assigned genres is included. More here:

https://48hourfilm.com/animation

Thanks for the heads up. I appreciate these notices. And I always love your entries.

diomede posted at 9:42PM Tue, 28 April 2020 - #4387664

Thanks for the heads up. I appreciate these notices. And I always love your entries.

Thanks. Its really just a way to goad myself into doing some animating. Plus if it doesn't dome out good, I can say we only had two days ... not as good an excuse this time with four days, but still ...

I just finished our entry and got it uploaded along with all the release forms, etc. We drew the Buddy and/or Horror genres, the character was an athlete (male or female), the line "I have good news and bad news" and the prop a flashlight. Happily, combining genres is encouraged, so our entry is a Horror/Comedy, four minutes long. One new contest feature was a way of getting a CheckSum for the finished movie without actually uploading the whole thing (took a few minutes), so you can then upload it the next day and the CheckSum verifies its the same video. No extra time for making the video, but no desperate attempt to upload it at the deadline (a couple of hours). Seemed to work fine for our 250MB video.

I'm happy with our entry, but with 50 worldwide teams, there's gonna be some knockouts, I think.

I don't know when I can upload the video, probably not until the judges are finished. Maybe a trailer, but I don't see anything in the rules, so I asked them via email.

There are no restrictions on uploads, this being an online contest with no ticket sales to worry about. So here it is, "Circus Day", four minute animation done in Carrara:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvV5YCww-4k

48x2 Animation Project--our Finalists ... Today we announce our [eight] finalists for the inaugural 48x2 Animation Project

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgMcERvceOG0iuvS6kfzB7w

There are fifteen short animations so far on the Youtube site, apparenly they are slowly getting all 40+ videos posted for the Audience Award.