The Short Project is an ambitious attempt to produce an animated short film by way of competition. The visual aspects of the production have been broken into eight competitions; Character Design, Set Design, Story Boards, Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and Animation. For more information on the Phases visit the Production page. The winning entry from each of these competitions, what we're calling Phases, will go directly into the finished short film.All aspects of the film not created in one of the Phases, things like scoring, rigging, rendering, sound effects, mastering and duplication will be provided by the production itself.

Winners of each phase will be awarded full credit in the production, cash prizes up to $500 depending on the phase, a page in the Crew section of this site to do just about what ever they want with and other prizes as provided by our sponsors. For more information on the prizes visit the Prizes page.

Getting involved in the Short Project is easy. If you'd like to participate as a sponsor, send an e-mail to sponsor@shortproject.com and we will get you set up. If you want to enter one of the Phases go to the Phases page (link above) and get all the information you need to dive in. If the Phase you want to participate it hasn't begun, sign up for the newsletter and we'll let you know when your Phases is gearing up.

Once production on the Short Project has wrapped we will enter the finished short into as many festivals as possible and hopefully win enough recognition and prestige for our participants and sponsors that we will be able to begin production on another cycle of the Short Project. It's our goal to be able to continue turning out animated short films with this frame work as long as people want to participate.