{"id":12724,"date":"2008-04-11T16:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/winners-of-the-20000-adobe-design-challenge-announced.html"},"modified":"2008-04-11T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:12:49","slug":"winners_of_the_20000_adobe_design_challeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/winners_of_the_20000_adobe_design_challeng\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the $20,000 Adobe design challenge announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to TJ Sochor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3wagonsdeep.com\/\">3 Wagons Deep<\/a> on winning the grand prize in Adobe&#8217;s &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/\">See What&#8217;s Possible<\/a>&quot; motion graphics contest:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;script src=&quot;http:\/\/flash.revver.com\/player\/1.0\/player.js?mediaId:758469;affiliate:0;width:480;height:392&quot; type=&quot;text\/javascript&quot;<\/p>\n<p>TJ writes, <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The entire animation was done completely with Photoshop and After Effects (with a touch of Illustrator for logo preparation). No 3rd party plug-ins, programs, animation, videos were used; just the tools that ship standard with Adobe software. All photos are original &#8211; taken with my Nikon D80 (organized in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom). The music is also original. No 3rd party stuff, well, except for my cheap Yamaha guitar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finalists <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/416\">See What&#8217;s Possible<\/a> &#8212; Hello Lava link<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/376\">Thinking Magical<\/a> &#8212; Animat&oacute;rio\/Vinicius Costa<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/254\">The Amazing Factory<\/a> &#8212; Wondermint<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/470\">Happy Place<\/a> &#8212; Network Osaka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participation<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than  348 Submissions from over 31 countries with over 1\/3 in the last day before the deadline\n<\/li>\n<li>More than half the submissions came from outside the U.S.\n<\/li>\n<li>More than 5,800 registered users who contributed submissions, comments, and votes\n<\/li>\n<li>More than 120,000 unique visitors from over 156 countries around the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, there were a few that remind you that &quot;When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro&quot; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hip hop &#8216;shop: <a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/84\">Crime Scene by d.inc design<\/a> (&quot;All the other programs, irrelevant!&quot;&#8211;or as ODB might say, &quot;You know my name, now gimme my money&quot;) <\/li>\n<li>As with the boat in &quot;Apocalypse Now,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/39\">Never Leave the Letterbox<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Spazzing like the people in &quot;Jacob&#8217;s Ladder,&quot; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/81\">One Man Show<\/a> (known colloquially as &quot;meth guy&quot;) <\/li>\n<li>PS goes <em>The Way Of The Stick: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/162\">Designer Ninjas<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And finally, Mr. Hankey would be so proud: <a href=\"http:\/\/swp.cutandpaste.com\/video\/201\">Turning Crap to Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThanks to everyone for the great entries!  If you see any that strike you as particularly cool, funny, bizarre, etc., please pass &#8217;em along via the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to TJ Sochor of 3 Wagons Deep on winning the grand prize in Adobe&#8217;s &quot;See What&#8217;s Possible&quot; motion graphics contest: &lt;script src=&quot;http:\/\/flash.revver.com\/player\/1.0\/player.js?mediaId:758469;affiliate:0;width:480;height:392&quot; type=&quot;text\/javascript&quot; TJ writes, The entire animation was done completely with Photoshop and After Effects (with a touch of Illustrator for logo preparation). No 3rd party plug-ins, programs, animation, videos were used; just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}