I discovered this yesterday from my source for almost everything animation-wise these days (vimeo, again)… This was done as part of GreyScale Gorilla’s Five Second Projects which is a regular competition aimed to bolster your portfolio. That link back there goes to a gallery of similar pieces like the one above. And here’s a page with the submission guidelines for the most recent project. But here’s the most important part… 1. Submissions must be Five Seconds Long! 2. Only animation is accepted. Video only submissions will not. 3. The animations has to do with the theme in some

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