BATON ROUGE – Red Stick International Animation Festival , the largest animation festival in the United States, is seeking work from students, amateurs and professionals to consider for its 2010 “Best of the Fest” competition.
The festival is changing seasons for 2010, moving from the spring to the fall. Red Stick will take place Nov. 10-13, 2010, in the downtown Baton Rouge Arts District. The “Best of the Fest” competition is an annual part of festival events, and Red Stick jurists award a “Red Baton” to the top work in each category, announcing winners during the festival. Top Best of the Fest entries also are screened throughout Red Stick for audiences to enjoy.
Red Stick accepts work from students, amateurs or professionals for the Best of the Fest competition, and participants can enter in multiple categories. The festival previously was scheduled to take place in May, and Red Stick initially accepted 2010 submissions in eight categories beginning in September 2009. Anyone who submitted work during this timeframe is still entered in the competition.
Red Stick has resumed accepting Best of the Fest 2010 submissions, and will accept entries through July 1.
Red Stick International Animation Festival is seeking work in eight categories for this year’s Best of the Fest competition:
• Animated Short Film (student and professional categories)
• Music Video
• Scientific Visualization
• Animation for Commercials
• Animation for Games
• Animation for Young Audiences
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music (student and professional categories)
• Storyboard Competition
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 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.
The festival is sponsored by LSU Center for Computation & Technology in partnership with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President’s Office , Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Louisiana Economic Development and Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium.
For more information on Red Stick, please contact the festival office at 225-389-7182 or visit www.redstickfestival.org.
The festival is changing seasons for 2010, moving from the spring to the fall. Red Stick will take place Nov. 10-13, 2010, in the downtown Baton Rouge Arts District. The “Best of the Fest” competition is an annual part of festival events, and Red Stick jurists award a “Red Baton” to the top work in each category, announcing winners during the festival. Top Best of the Fest entries also are screened throughout Red Stick for audiences to enjoy.
Red Stick accepts work from students, amateurs or professionals for the Best of the Fest competition, and participants can enter in multiple categories. The festival previously was scheduled to take place in May, and Red Stick initially accepted 2010 submissions in eight categories beginning in September 2009. Anyone who submitted work during this timeframe is still entered in the competition.
Red Stick has resumed accepting Best of the Fest 2010 submissions, and will accept entries through July 1.
Red Stick International Animation Festival is seeking work in eight categories for this year’s Best of the Fest competition:
• Animated Short Film (student and professional categories)
• Music Video
• Scientific Visualization
• Animation for Commercials
• Animation for Games
• Animation for Young Audiences
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music (student and professional categories)
• Storyboard Competition
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 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.
The festival is sponsored by LSU Center for Computation & Technology in partnership with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President’s Office , Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Louisiana Economic Development and Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium.
For more information on Red Stick, please contact the festival office at 225-389-7182 or visit www.redstickfestival.org.
Publish Date:
03-31-2010
