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Everyone involved in this competition learned a lot, and you should too! Competition happens to be a pretty great way to trick yourself into working harder than you normally would, and this can result in some quick growth in your skillset. Giant Ant and our Bootcamp alums worked their booties off each week to make something special. The chance to work on an animation with Giant Ant + Antfood is pretty damn motivating on its own, but to make it even more enticing we enlisted the help of the fine folks at Red Giant, who hooked up the winners of each week with a full license of Trapcode Suite 13, the latest release of the absolutely-must-have plugin package for After Effects. (Though I'm quite sure it's not) SOMETIMES, A LITTLE EXTRA MOTIVATION HELPS. Sound Design is still a bit of a dark art, in my humble opinion, and companies like Antfood make it seem effortless. ‍ Now, to make this really kick ass, we needed sound.Įnter Antfood, the audio geniuses behind the Blend Opener who came up with a soundtrack that completely complements the abstract visuals. You can see all of the entries for all four weeks of competition here: ‍ WEEK 4: KEVIN SNYDER - KEVINSNYDER.NET/ ‍ WEEK 3: JOSEF ATLESTAM - VIMEO.COM/JOSEFATLESTAM

Everyone brought their A-game, but in the end we had four winners, each of whom had their animation included in the final piece. My GAWD, it was a very tough call each week to choose a winner.