24 Hours for 2019

That time of year again. 
Time for the 24 hours Animation Contest and challenge on Friday, Oct 4th to Saturday, Oct 5th!

In past years, I have posted all the 24 hours contests that Woodbury University has been involved with. Here are last year's teams and their films.

Enrollment has gone up with the increase of Animation students at Woodbury this year. Several classrooms have been updated, replacing Animation discs and desks with Work stations and Cintiqs. 

Here's a live stream from CSU Long Beach: https://www.facebook.com/aubry.mintz/videos/10162551963485551/?notif_id=1570226399742648&notif_t=live_video_explicit

This year's theme is: Family 

Family(noun) fam·i·ly |  \ ˈfam-lē    , ˈfa-mə-\ plural families

F amily  –  F amilia  -  家庭 –  F amiglia  –  ครอบคร ว –  Rodina  –  Ohana  –  החפש מ  –  परिवाि –  Keluarga  –

Pamilya  –  Famille  –  F amilie  –  Família  –  Οι κο γ έ νε ια  –  С емь я  –  Aiga  –  가족 –  ةل ئاع

“Holding  on  as  one

Roots  rich  with  stories  of  life

Ancestrally  linked”

-  Denise  Boston,  Ph.D.,  Dean of Diversity &  Inclusion,  California

Institute  of Integral  Studies

It's a family affair, it's a family affair One child grows up to be Somebody that just loves to learn And another child grows up to be Somebody you'd just love to burn Mom loves the both of them

You see it's in the blood

- Lyrics from the song “Family Affair” by Sylvester Stewart AKA Sly Stone

from Sly and the Family Stone

https://www.urbandictionary.com/ offers the following definitions of the word family:

family sample definition 1:

A group of people, usually of the same blood (but do not have to be), who genuinely love, trust, care about, and look out for each other. REAL family is a bondage that cannot be broken by any means.

by Lola5544 April 29, 2011

family sample definition 2:

A bunch of people who hate each other and eat dinner together. by Guinness 1759 September 16, 2005

In some families parents enjoy spending time with their children but in other families the parents may have to work three jobs to pay the bills and don’t have the privilege.

In some families siblings look out for and love one another – even older siblings generally help take care of younger siblings. In other families siblings must learn to fend for themselves and the strongest rise to the surface.

In some familes the children respect their parents born out of love and nurturing.

In other families the children are forced to respect their parents one way or another.

Some parents are in love

Some parents make it work for the children Some parents make it work in separate homes Some parents don’t make it work at all

Some children don’t have any parents at all.

Families can be seen as a bond that holds centuries of lineage in an interweaved web creating generations rich with culture

drastically paired with

families that struggle to hold on for life while they are separated at border walls in certain political climates

As you can see from the samples above the definition of Family casts a wide net from a collection of very personal stories that range from extremely supportive experiences that fosters stimulation and encouragement towards intellectual and artistic growth to the sheer opposite that displays families that promote harmful abusive patterns for generations to come.

THE THEME FOR 24 HOURS 2019 is:

What does “family” mean to you?

Make a 30-second animated film based on your own

definition of “family” .

You have 24 HOURS Go!...

 

This year, Woodbury has 3 teams competing in the 24 hour animation contest.

The SnickerDoodles

Brieanna Bell, Colby Yabeny, Amanda Wiley, Brandon Chua and Janine Zarmarron

Finished film goes here.

HADLY

In the back row; Yifan Zhang, Lauren Gregorio,Heather Ramos, Aspen Leavitt and Daniel Cruz

and

The PaintBucketeers

Guenevere Smith, Mallory Collins, Taylor Pedersen, Nicole Petrovsky and Haley Lambert

Woodbury entered the first 24 hours contest back in 2014 with only 2 teams.

After the 24 Hours were over, 2 projects came out of Woodbury and one of them won first place. It was a real boost to the Seniors who had worked together and were able to make an animated short which tested all their learning over the past four years.

Last year's theme: What if you had 24 hours to live?  
Ryan Tengel and her Woodbury University animation team answered the question with this 1st place winning short.

The team members from this short film are now currently working in animation at Cartoon Network, DreamWorks and other animation studios.

At this time, we still have no idea if Team Snickerdoodles survived or not? We are waiting to hear back from them and post their film as well. If you have seen them wandering the halls or stairways, approach with caution; they have been up for 24 hours and need a hug.