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> Articles > 2002 BAMG Contest Winners
1) Kyle Obley — BAMG
2) Douglas Devore — Mac Filmmakers
3) Rafael DeSoto — BAMG
4) Patrick Seimer — BAMG
5) Chris Bator — BAMG
6) Honorary Mention : Enza Sebastiani —
Mac Filmmakers
BAMG's Artbeats Contest Winners Announced
6 October
2002 — The results were announced, Monday,
August 5, of the BAMG Design Contest. The contest was open to BAMG
members, Mac Filmmaker members and SFCutters. There were 18 contestants
and 7 prizewinners. Mac Filmmaker Doug DeVore won second place and
Mac Filmmaker Enza Sebastiani won a very Honorable Mention! The
rest of the winners were BAMG members.
The winners have small QuickTime movies up on Digital
Anarchy's site. We will post larger versions of the winners
beginning Sunday, September 14, 2002, beginning with the sixth place
finisher, Enza Sebastiani, and showcasing subsequent winners each
following week. Because we are uncertain as to the bandwidth hit
we will take (and everything is out of pocket!), we will rotate
winners, showing one per week.
The next reel we will show is by 1st place
finisher, Kyle Obley [850kb QuickTime
movie ]:
Thanks to all who participated! Thanks as well to Jim
Tierney from BAMG
for extending us the opportunity to participate, and to the sponsors
(Winning
Strategies, ArtBeats,
Adobe, Digital
Anarchy, and Total
Training). There were some great prizes given away, including
copies of After Effects, about $5000 in ArtBeats stock footage,
lots of Digital Anarchy software, and sets of training tapes from
Total Training. Details have been posted on the Digital
Anarchy website contest
page.
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First Place — BAMG
Kyle Obley
webpage
Tech Details
Dell Dimensions 4100, 933 Mhz P3, 384MB RAM, After Effects
5.0, Filters (not in AE): Shine, Sinedots II, WE 2001: Stargate
Media: Stockfootage from DA website, Golden Gate photo from
photo.net.
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Second Place — Mac Filmmakers
Douglas Devore
and Wendy Van Wazer
Digital
Turbulence, Inc
About the Entry
This promo for Mac Filmmakers was produced on a Mac (of course.)
Photoshop, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro were the main
tools used. The video footage was shot on a JVC GY-DV500U.
Supplied clips from ArtBeats were incorporated as a requirement
of the contest, and the music is from the FreePlay Music Library
available for free from Apple (check your iDisk!).
About Doug & Wendy
Douglas DeVore and Wendy Van Wazer run the video production
company, Digital
Turbulence, Inc. In addition to taking on corporate jobs,
they've directed and edited the children's series, "Imagination
Station" airing nationally on PBS, produced the Emmy-nominated
educational show "Tech Knowledge," and directed
segments for the NBC3 show, "Tech Now."
In addition to corporate video, DVD production, and television
work with their company, they're also currently contracting
with Apple working on video-related applications, and that's
all they're allowed to say.
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Third Place — BAMG
Rafael DeSoto
www.desoto-studio.com
Titled "They're Out There:"
Machine: Mac G3 400,
System: Mac OS 9.1
Software: After Effects 5.5
and Shine & Anarchy Text Elements plugins, Art Beats footage.
I wanted this spot to look "out there" so I blasted
a headline using the lightning filter chased with "Shine".
The figure emerging from the dark is silhouetted using the
'difference' composite mode over some storm footage. The icons
flying by are cropped screen shots of the After Effects user
interface. There are a few Jump Back clips along with some
video of old bed springs that were strobe lighted. The audio
is a mix of lightning strikes field recordings, Tibetan chants,
a looping drum solo, and an obscure 1980 underground Cleveland
band no one has, or ever will hear of.
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Fourth Place — BAMG
Patrick Seimer
BAMG
Material has not yet been obtained. - MFM Webstaff.
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Fifth
Place — BAMG
Chris Bator
www.somebug.com
Chris used After Effects 5.5 on a Powerbook G4 500 with 512MB
of ram. He used 4 of the 10 clips that were supplied for the
contest. In addition to some native AE filters like Levels,
Hue/Saturation, Radial Blur, and Radio Waves, he also used
the ubiquitous Trapcode filter Shine, hopefully in a somewhat
unusual way. Most of the visual complexity in this piece comes
from combining over 30 layers with different blending modes
and extensive use of After Effects' 3D layers.
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Honorable Mention:
Mac Filmmakers
Enza Sebastiani
1000
Hearts Productions
Enza Sebastiani is the founder of 1000 Hearts. A talented
and energetic artist, born and raised in Rome, Italy, she
spent the past 11 years between San Francisco and Los Angeles
pursuing her dream. Her passion for storytelling drove her
to write, direct and edit beautiful short movies, some of
them hosted on her website.
She was called "the one woman studio" by Apple co-workers
and executives, as she produced videos for Apple CEO's keynotes
and many other Apple events worldwide.
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