Radiohead, aniBoom (aniboom.com) and TBD Records have named the winners of the In Rainbows Animated Music Video Contest. Members of Radiohead hand selected four top videos and will personally put up additional prize money so that each of the four creators receives $10,000 to produce a full-length music video. Radiohead may use the videos in support of future singles from the album In Rainbows.
The contest invited all content creators and Radiohead fans around the world to produce a one-minute animated music video clip for any song from the band’s latest album, In Rainbows, for a $10,000 grand prize and the chance to produce a full-length animated music video. Promoted on Adult Swim and MySpace, inaddition to aniBoom.com, the contest generated more than 1,000 entries from more than 40 countries. More information on the contest can be found at aniBoom.com.
‘The aniBoom video competition totally blown me away, it has,’ said Thom Yorke, lead vocalist of Radiohead. ‘We are proud that In Rainbows songs were the source of inspiration for so many amazing creations.’
‘aniBoom once again gave the independent creator community across the globe the chance to have their work seen by millions and access to an opportunity that typically goes to animators from the major studios, while generating the highest quality content at unprecedented cost efficiencies for both ourselves and our partners,’ adds Uri Shinar, founder and president of aniBoom. ‘We are so proud to have provided Radiohead with such a tremendous selection of talent that they were moved to choose a total of four winners.’
The winning submissions are: ’15 Step V2.0′ by Kota Totori of Japan, (http://www.aniboom.com/video/236519/15-step-v2.0/), ’16 Tracks Vs. Videotape 2.0′ by Wolfgang Jaiser and Claus Winter of Germany (http://www.aniboom.com/video/236713/16tracks-vs-videotape-2.0/), ‘Reckoner V2’ by Clement Picon of France (http://www.aniboom.com/video/235299/Reckoner-v2/) and ‘Transmutation’ by Tobias Stretch of the U.S. (http://www.aniboom.com/video/233397/Transmutation/).