Semifinalists for Aniboom Radiohead video contest

by on May 7, 2008 with 22 Comments in Radiohead News

Aniboom has announced the top ten semifinalists for the Radiohead In Rainbows Animated Music Video Competition.

More than 900 entries from 47 countries have been submitted and posted to the site since the first stage of the competition launched five weeks ago inviting all artists, animators, writers, character designers and more to submit storyboards using the song of their choice from In Rainbows. 409 submissions came from the United States, with 135 coming from the UK and 95 from France. The cities represented most were Paris (45 submissions), London (40 submissions) and New York City (35 submissions.) More information on the contest can be found at Aniboom.com.

A panel including people from Aniboom, TBD Records and Adult Swim selected the ten semifinalists who have been awarded $1,000 each to produce a one-minute animated music video based on their storyboards. The semifinalist videos will be shared across Aniboom’s web-wide network of distribution partners, and fans will be given the opportunity to vote at aniboom.com and at MySpace. The videos will then be submitted to Radiohead to select the winner. The creator(s) of the winning video will be awarded $10,000 to expand their one minute submission to produce the full-length video. In addition, the winning video may have its broadcast premiere on Adult Swim.

The competition remains open to all creators, as additional one-minute animated music videos can be submitted for viewing and ranking by creators and fans at Aniboom.com for a chance to win one remaining “golden ticket” to secure a place in the finals of the competition.

The semifinalists submissions (in no particular order):

- Reckoner
- Jigsaw Falling Into Place
- Nude
- All I Need
- Reckoner
- Faust Arp
- 15 Step
- Videotape
- Nude
- Jigsaw Falling Into Place


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  • kidj

    wow. it seems none of these take any cue for the lyrics. although i agree literal interpretations are cheesy, these concepts seem totally irrelevant – for the most part. i’m a little disappointed.

  • mike

    I’m very disappointed.

  • rice

    I’m F***ing disappointed. I’m throwing up at that Nude entry…ugh…

  • tylenolmonkey

    I like the first Reckoner a lot. And I like the zoo animal one too…though I think the happy ending doesn’t fit the bleakness of the song…I think seeing all the animals as skeletons at the end would be a better fit. The rest of the videos are pretty mediocre. And the anime one is just freaking awful!!

  • ThinkTank

    most of the vids were terrible, mediocre at best, I think the best one was the reckoner one with the cube trees

  • http://www.littlenobody.com Liam

    Me and my friend came up with this;
    http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=197948
    Didn’t get through to those listed above mind, but I still might use it for something else in the future.

  • Mike (the other mike..)

    these are the semi-finalists? puh-leez. this sucks. The all I need one isn’t that bad in my opinion, but still, they’re all pretty aweful..

  • will

    It seems some of the semi-finalists did not adhere to the competition rules that were set in advance… (http://forums.aniboom.com/Default.aspx?g=topics&f=200) At the messageboard of Aniboom there s a riot going on :)

  • http://www.littlenobody.com Liam

    I thinks it’s important to point out these ‘videos’ are not intended to be completed things – they are just animatics, sketches of the final idea (at least that’s what the first stage was SUPPOSED to be despite the jury’s swaying by more finished pieces it seems, ho-hum). The outcome in the forum link above is farcical at best.

  • Gordon

    I really liked this reckoner video:
    http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=205805
    I haven’t read the rules, so I don’t know if it adheres to them, but it’s lovely anyway.

  • dark

    @liam:
    I see you also commented twice on your own “storyboard” at aniboom under a different username (liamanimation).

  • I am your father

    good work for production companies..well not really

  • lostfaith

    If you watched the semi-finalists and you cant understand what the F*&k they were thinking you might be interested in some of this: http://forums.aniboom.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=661

  • Bruupo

    The Faust Arp entry from Dany Saadia was an 8 shot, 56 second re-edit of a commercially released film he directed called “3:19″, which you can find on IMDB. He is a “director”, did not animate the footage in “3:19″ (animated by Rune Productions), but re-cut less than a minute of the pre-existing footage and submitted it to an open submission, ORIGINAL animation contest anyway.

    “16 Tracks” was a pre-existing art installation originally set to different music.

    The anime “15 Step” entry is listed as an individual’s entry, but was actually animated by a Japanese production house that definitely had already made the character and setting before the contest was ever announced, if not all of the animation itself.

    And those are just the three most egregious problems.

  • Goni

    Uufff, I’m so disappointed, I saw just 3 of them and I couldn’t keep watchin, I feel shame about them, specially the anime one. The stories are awful. I feel bad.

  • s.a.y

    the first reckoner and the last jigsaw make nice clips.
    and the other Reckoner in the other comments

  • spike

    I can’t see Nude or Jigsaw winning, purely because those songs already have videos!

  • http://www.littlenobody.com Liam

    @dark
    Yes that’s me, it was uploaded by the other half of the duo.

  • John

    This contest was a scam. Read the discussion boards on Aniboom! Hopefully, Radiohead will find out about the fact they have been USED by Aniboom for advertising. FACT: Contestants were told that “views and ratings” were a factor in becoming a semifinalists, then contradicted themselves to say “it’s a contest about quality”.
    Contestents were in the dark about how they actually won, and contacted everyone they know to vote, driving traffic to Aniboom.
    The semifinalists prove that views and ratings never mattered.
    Only one Aniboom representative speaks on the message boards, and he is unprofessional and barely speaks English.
    Aniboom broke thier own rules during this entire contest:
    1. they moved contest dates to fit their advertising needs
    2. they were purposely cryptic and unclear about how winners were chosen, insinuating views contributed to winning, in order to drive traffic to their website
    3. they chose semifinalists that broke their own contest rules by choosing winners who had created the animations before the contest began and had nothing to do with Radiohead songs when created
    IS anyone going to care? We’ll see…
    Of all bands to be associated with a marketing scam…Radiohead? The one band you’d think would not tolerate it.

  • joanofarc

    AniBoom have duped its entrants and unfairly favoured production companies who have already worked with Radiohead over amateur animators in order to promote their website.

  • ****

    Those selections, for the most part, aren’t what I would expect at all. I did like the first one though. I’m just sure there are better ones out there

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