Wam Bam 48 hour speed animation competition
WAM BAM is an intensive and fun 48 hour speed animation competition run by the West Australian animation association, WAnimate. This competition pits several teams against each other in an all-out battle to cook up the most creative, animated film they can – all within the incredibly challenging deadline.
Each team of up to five participants draws three random words from ahat. These words are used as a springboard to inspire the rapidbrainstorming of creative story ideas. Armed with these ideas and using supplied hardware, software andfacilities, teams set about in a flurry of frantic concept art, crazedcharacter design, manic set building and all manor of technicalwizardry – culminating in the production of a short and oftenhilarious, animated film.
A public screening is held on the last night for all team members,family, friends, supporters and industry representatives. Awards aregiven out by both a panel of judges and popular vote. Final films willalso be made available through the WAnimate website and distributed viacollective, promotional DVDs with many participants also includingtheir films on showreels.
This years prize pool is valued at over AUD$5,000, with prizesincluding production licenses of Adobe software, training DVDs from TheGnomon Workshop, art books from Ballistic Publishing and spot prizesyou can win just by participating.
When: 6pm Friday 9th July – 6pm Sunday 11th July
(Public screening at Sunday 7pm 11th July)
Where: West Coast Institute of Training – Joondalup campus.
Entry Cost: Free to all WAnimate members*
How to enter: Register your team or as an individual at the WAnimate website.
