I WON!!!!

Casey Pixmintro · March 18, 2009 09:45 PM

Hey guys! Have you ever gotten news that just makes you want to scream yourself hoarce from your sheer excitement?! Well, this just happened a little while ago for me.

Backstory:
I entered the third episode of my series "Tywo At Large" into the Scholastics Art Competition in the animation category. It's one of those High School contests... Well, the movie took first in the region along with winning an "American Visions" Award, so I was pretty pleased...

Well, today, I get a ring from my art teacher who is just babbling incoherently... He finally forms the words to tell me I won GOLD... At NATIONALS! ... I know... I began spouting ecstatic obscenities, enough to fill a barrel, hooting and cheering while my Mom stands confused... Seriously, I never thought THIS would be TIED FOR #1 at this year's Scholastics Art Awards... I REALLY didn't see it coming!

So now I get to go to the Award Ceremonies at Carnegie Hall in New York City! WHOO!

... One more thing, some guy from Scholastics called me a few weeks ago, asking me about my movie. He was like "what programs did you use, what's your process..." bs like that... So I tell him everything for about 3 minutes and he just murmurs "Well, I guess you didn't steal it..." Apparently the people judging the movie though I had stolen it!... And were amazed to find out I made it! That is the happiest accusation of plagerism I've ever received.

So what can be drawn from all this... Either my stuff is pretty damn good or the usual stuff that gets in SUCKS BALLS...

Well, I watched last year's winner, and some of them were pretty good. I don't know how many I tied with this year though... But "Gold Medal" on a College application sounds great no matter what!

Sorry for the long read everybody.

rtil · March 18, 2009 11:00 PM

well it looks like you put a lot of work into that so congratulations. i had no idea they had animation competitions for high schoolers.

billy · March 18, 2009 11:02 PM

Quote from: Ixintro"Gold Medal" on a College application sounds great no matter what!

Getting into college is easy, doing well in college is the hard part. But congrats

unclephil · March 18, 2009 11:39 PM

i wish they had somethin like dis in middle school. but then again im the only one who animates in the whole school so .

shura · March 18, 2009 11:46 PM

congrats!! the audio didn't match the video at some parts, but i think that might've just been my computer

Alta Don · March 18, 2009 11:47 PM

congrats man

Casey Pixmintro · March 18, 2009 11:54 PM

Quote from: rtilwell it looks like you put a lot of work into that so congratulations. i had no idea they had animation competitions for high schoolers.

I love this multi-quoter. Thanks, it took a disgustingly long chunk of my life to get this thing done. Yeah, I think this is the only national one for high schoolers. Some states have their own too.

Quote from: King Dededei wish they had somethin like dis in middle school. but then again im the only one who animates in the whole school so .

You can enter in Scholastics. It's open from 7th to 12th grade and you can personally submit stuff, you just need authorization from your art teacher... If I remember correctly.

Quote from: Sashuracongrats!! the audio didn't match the video at some parts, but i think that might've just been my computer

I dunno, the lipsyncing was a little screwy in the beginning and the movie lags in a .swf format. :S Though, the new updated version has at least SOME of it repaired. I'll upload it eventually.

[size=]Thanks everyone![/size] XP

DrRumack · March 19, 2009 12:04 AM

Quote from: rtilwell it looks like you put a lot of work into that so congratulations. i had no idea they had animation competitions for high schoolers.

me neither i should get in on that shit

also congrats man

Flash · March 19, 2009 12:11 AM

congratz!

funzop · March 19, 2009 12:12 AM

Quote from: IxintroXP

emanhattan · March 19, 2009 12:17 AM

good job : )

tmk · March 19, 2009 12:19 AM

congrats man

I made it to the national level last year when I entered the painting category, but I didn't do that well
didn't enter this year.

is this your senior year?

Casey Pixmintro · March 19, 2009 12:28 AM

Quote from: tmkcongrats man

I made it to the national level last year when I entered the painting category, but I didn't do that well
didn't enter this year.

is this your senior year?

I entered a painting that made it to nationals too, but I haven't heard anything about it... Don't think I won anything. Yeah, this is my senior year. Last year, I only entered a watercolor of the [Scrubs] hospital which didn't make it past regional... But it got Honorable Mention.

ansel · March 19, 2009 02:12 AM

one time I got to regionals

in the spelling bee

ZekeySpaceyLizard · March 19, 2009 06:41 AM

alright.

Crabarms · March 19, 2009 08:12 AM

sweet glad you won, that animation was entertaining.

Casey Pixmintro · March 19, 2009 03:24 PM

Hey guys, I just found up that I'll win a $10,000 scholarship with this get the movie aired on Ovation TV, some digital cable channel that plays concerts, unpopular animated movies (like the Three Sisters of Belleville or whatever) and documentaries. Eeee! :3

Philip K Dick · March 19, 2009 05:02 PM

congrats dude

Fuzz · March 19, 2009 05:21 PM

Very nice! I'm happy for ya!

lenko · March 19, 2009 08:27 PM

Quote from: IxintroHey guys, I just found up that I'll win a $10,000 scholarship with this get the movie aired on Ovation TV, some digital cable channel that plays concerts, unpopular animated movies (like the Three Sisters of Belleville or whatever) and documentaries. Eeee! :3

wasnt triplets of belleville hugely successful?