Possible Competitions

When deciding on competitions to enter and things to make for the Responsive module, my first thought was of 11SecondClub. This is a monthly animation competition that specialises in character animation, and gives you audio to animate to, which would be really amazing practice for lip syncing. Although it is not the main focus of the competition, if I get any work for this finished in a timely manner I can do some more modelling, and build up more detailed and interesting backgrounds and props. I would really enjoy doing this even if it isn't judged as much as the actual animation itself. I could also model characters and rig them once I learn how to, to use them in future competitions and completely make my performance my own.

Riot Games are hosting a competition on Polycount with a few different categories - character art, Environment Art, Illustration, Animation and VFX. The animation, Character Art and Environment art categories sound extremely fun and would be great practice for me - if only the deadline wasn't December 19th. I do not think that I have time to learn how to make things that would meet all of the requirements of the competition, although I would still like to work on something like this in my own time, perhaps as a personal project.

Another fun competition to enter would be LoopdeLoop. It is a bi-monthly animation competition to make looping animations based on a small idea. This could be fun for generating smaller ideas - something that I generally have trouble with - and creating short simple animations. I could use 3D animation for this so that it is still interesting for me, and maybe have a few completed for this module.

Qwertee is less of a competition than others - I don't think that there are actual brief/suggestions of what to make, but the tshirts on the site are all based off of popular media - tv shows, comics, anime etc. This could be fun to do to practice design skills and doing something different. I can think about some shows or fandoms that I enjoy and make something that I would buy myself. Designs are voted on before being put up for sale, which would be very rewarding. Other sites like DesignbyHumans and Teefury also do this, so it is something to look into.

I will be doing a YCN brief as well, although the briefs might not give me quite as many opportunities learn things that I would like to as the above, but it could help my have a different way of learning and to think about advertising much more.