British animation awards sting competition

The British Animation Awards Sheep Sting Competition (click on stings competition on left)

The British Animation Awards (BAAs) is about promoting and championing UK animation in all its guises, culminating in a an awards ceremony and massive party in central London. The Awards will be held at the BFI on the SouthBank on March 15. 2012.

This is your chance to not only be a part of the event but to showcase your unique talents on the big screen during the awards show itself. For BAA 2012 we’re organising a BAA sting competition – inviting you to create an animated sting to amuse and delight both online audiences and the cream of the industry who attend BAA. The brief is fairly open but we still have a few little rules:

1.Sheep - The BAA sting brief is to create something that contains one (or more sheep) with extra points for weaving in references to animation and or the UK). It doesn’t have to be the BAA sheep logo, it can be any sheep or sheep’s, and you can do with it/them as you will, as long as you aim to entertain the BAA audience in a quirky, inventive way (but do try and avoid the usual clichés – and smut!). The brief is similar to that given to the leading animation figures from all the world who have created our unique prizes: ranging from Tim Burton to Japan’s Koji Yamamura and Toshiharu Mizutani, Disney’s Glen Kean to Nick Park – or serial conceptualists Dan Greaves and Derek Hayes. Check out previous BAA artists’ work on the website’s Awards Gallery.

2. Duration - Your sting should be between 4 – 25 seconds in duration

3. Technique - There are no constraints on technique, genre or style as long as it is animated.
Just remember – originality is what we’re really after – look at the awards artworks for inspiration, just don’t copy them, that wouldn’t be very original… Be sclever and original. Be quirky and inventive. Be daring and dangerous. Just don’t be unacceptably rude and crude.

Who can enter? Students, recent graduates, hobby animators and professionals alike, the retired-but-still genius, as long as you are over 18 and currently UK based you can have a go

How it all works? Please email your BAA 2012 Sheep stings to stings@britishanimationawards.com along with a covering email including; your name, phone number and email address. Please title the file name as your ful name.

Entries can be submitted from October 5th, 2011, with final deadline of February 5th 2012. A selection will be online for public voting, and a final shortlist will be judged by a jury of industry specialists. The quicker you get it done, the longer you have to rack up public votes: but don’t forget that it’s quality above all that counts.

What’s in it for you?
Apart from a huge sense of pride and satisfaction from potentially seeing your hard labour up racking up online votes and possibly on the big screen in front of the industries greatest movers and shakers? OK, we’ll throw in a ticket to the gala awards night! And one for the party, so you can network like crazy!