BATON ROUGE – Red Stick International Animation Festival has extended the deadline for its 2010 Best of the Fest competition, and will accept entries through Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.
Initially, the festival was accepting entries through July 1, but extended the deadline to coincide with Red Stick International Animation Festival’s presence at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles July 27-30.
“Red Stick staff participate in SIGGRAPH every year, and we always get lots of interest from conference attendees who want to submit their work for Best of the Fest,” said Stephen David Beck, Ph.D., Red Stick International Animation Festival Host. “This year, with Red Stick moving from spring to fall, our submissions period is taking place at a different time, but we wanted to continue taking entries through August so we could solicit participation at SIGGRAPH again.”
Best of the Fest is an annual part of festival events, and top entries are screened throughout Red Stick for audiences to enjoy. Red Stick jurists announce Best of the Fest winners at an awards ceremony during the festival, which this year will take place Nov. 11-13, 2010, in the downtown Baton Rouge Arts District.
The festival awards a “Red Baton” to the top work in each category and this year, Red Stick will introduce a “Gold Baton” award for the overall best entry.
“We have always recognized the best film in each of our entry categories, but we wanted to create an overall award, similar to those other festivals have, that recognizes one work as the best entry we received across all categories for Red Stick 2010,” said Stacey Simmons, Ph.D., Red Stick International Animation Festival Director. “We will premiere this new award at Best of the Fest for our sixth annual festival.”
Red Stick accepts work from students, amateurs or professionals for the Best of the Fest competition, and participants can enter in multiple categories. There are seven categories for this year’s Best of the Fest competition:
• Animated Short Film (student and professional)
• Music Video
• Scientific Visualization
• Animation for Commercials
• Animation for Games
• Animation for Young Audiences
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music (student and professional)
There is no entry fee for the competition. Animations should be no longer than nine minutes, and the work must have been created within the past two years. The festival accepts 2-D, 3-D and hand-drawn animation, and participants must submit work in DVD or DV (NTSC only) format. Further details about the submission process are available at http://redstickfestival.org/entries.asp.
Participants first must register their work online to enter the competition. After filling out the online registration form via the link at http://redstickfestival.org/entries.asp, participants can send materials and inquiries to Red Stick International Animation Festival – LSU, 216 Johnston Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803.
The festival received a record 435 entries from 45 countries for its 2009 Best of the Fest competition.
Red Stick is an annual event that highlights the intersections among art, technology and computational science. Each year, the festival draws renowned animators, video game developers and other digital media industry professionals to Baton Rouge to host lectures, workshops and other events for aspiring artists, programmers and entrepreneurs. This year, the festival will introduce a Con event, FANDEMONIUM, and a “Neutral Ground” exposition for animation industry representatives.
LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology sponsors Red Stick in partnership with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President’s Office, Shaw Center for the Arts, Manship Theatre, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, and Louisiana Old State Capitol.
For more information on Red Stick, please visit www.redstickfestival.org.
Initially, the festival was accepting entries through July 1, but extended the deadline to coincide with Red Stick International Animation Festival’s presence at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles July 27-30.
“Red Stick staff participate in SIGGRAPH every year, and we always get lots of interest from conference attendees who want to submit their work for Best of the Fest,” said Stephen David Beck, Ph.D., Red Stick International Animation Festival Host. “This year, with Red Stick moving from spring to fall, our submissions period is taking place at a different time, but we wanted to continue taking entries through August so we could solicit participation at SIGGRAPH again.”
Best of the Fest is an annual part of festival events, and top entries are screened throughout Red Stick for audiences to enjoy. Red Stick jurists announce Best of the Fest winners at an awards ceremony during the festival, which this year will take place Nov. 11-13, 2010, in the downtown Baton Rouge Arts District.
The festival awards a “Red Baton” to the top work in each category and this year, Red Stick will introduce a “Gold Baton” award for the overall best entry.
“We have always recognized the best film in each of our entry categories, but we wanted to create an overall award, similar to those other festivals have, that recognizes one work as the best entry we received across all categories for Red Stick 2010,” said Stacey Simmons, Ph.D., Red Stick International Animation Festival Director. “We will premiere this new award at Best of the Fest for our sixth annual festival.”
Red Stick accepts work from students, amateurs or professionals for the Best of the Fest competition, and participants can enter in multiple categories. There are seven categories for this year’s Best of the Fest competition:
• Animated Short Film (student and professional)
• Music Video
• Scientific Visualization
• Animation for Commercials
• Animation for Games
• Animation for Young Audiences
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music (student and professional)
There is no entry fee for the competition. Animations should be no longer than nine minutes, and the work must have been created within the past two years. The festival accepts 2-D, 3-D and hand-drawn animation, and participants must submit work in DVD or DV (NTSC only) format. Further details about the submission process are available at http://redstickfestival.org/entries.asp.
Participants first must register their work online to enter the competition. After filling out the online registration form via the link at http://redstickfestival.org/entries.asp, participants can send materials and inquiries to Red Stick International Animation Festival – LSU, 216 Johnston Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803.
The festival received a record 435 entries from 45 countries for its 2009 Best of the Fest competition.
Red Stick is an annual event that highlights the intersections among art, technology and computational science. Each year, the festival draws renowned animators, video game developers and other digital media industry professionals to Baton Rouge to host lectures, workshops and other events for aspiring artists, programmers and entrepreneurs. This year, the festival will introduce a Con event, FANDEMONIUM, and a “Neutral Ground” exposition for animation industry representatives.
LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology sponsors Red Stick in partnership with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President’s Office, Shaw Center for the Arts, Manship Theatre, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, and Louisiana Old State Capitol.
For more information on Red Stick, please visit www.redstickfestival.org.
Publish Date:
07-08-2010
