Bale Contest Winners!
After looking at over 25 entries from all over the world, the Winner is…..
Chris O’Hara!!! with his hand drawn entry “Baleistic” Congratulations Chris. Great idea, animation and storytelling.
Second Place: Dan Huertas
Third Place: Brandon Beckstead
Honorable Mention: Mathew Rees, Alex Jansen
Thanks to all who participated. Judging was based on idea, acting and execution. Some were well executed but lacked a good idea. Others were funny but lacked good acting. This piece of dialogue is not easy to do. Animating someone angry is so difficult. It requires a tension in the acting and showing what the character is feeling through the body and expression. Overall I was impressed with the quality of the entries. Here are most of the other entries. Some were not suitable for the site due to some character copyrights and others I could not get to play. I appreciate all the hard work that people put into this. Some submissions were over a minute long. We also had a variety of experience. From High School to Industry professionals, the contest was really well done.
This contest was in no way related to Pixar and was done as an exercise in acting. Thanks to Christian Bale for the dialogue.
Don Dixon
Congrats to the winner! And to all who entered, this was a blast to work on, just having some pixar studs peeping my work, is a reward in itself. Especially if it played inside the walls of pixar.
D
John
Great work everyone! Congrats to all the winners!
-Joghn
Ting
Hahaha! You guys are so hilarious! I wonder what would Christian Bale thinks of this if he ever finds out. Awesome Animations and congratulation to the winners!!
Antonio
Guys, they’re all awesome!
Congratulations for everyone who sent one, I want to see more.
Let’s spread it all over the internet – the Batman has got to see this!
And Brandon, yours was my favorite!
The “let’s not have YOU f* walking in” gag was really really inspired, such brilliant staging and timing, the blue guy with his arms spread feels just too natural and funny.
Daniel Huertas
Great entries guys!!
It was challenging and fun to animate this.. so thanx again for doing this Doctors!
Scott Alvarado
Congrats to Chris, Dan, and Brandon!
These were all brilliant. I love Brandon’s entry. Obviously this wasn’t an easy choice! They’re all great.
Yanir Kleiman
Congratulations to the winners!
Brandon’s entry is also my favorite, I just love the blue guy’s attitude.
Thanks guys, this was great fun and as Don mentioned an honor to participate in
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Jonah
I know he’s third, but Brandon Beckstead’s is my favorite.
All of them are great, though.
Congrats, Chris!
Bala
loved all the three..especially the bug in the first one..and the guy walking in the third one..awesome guys! congrats!
Brad Lincoln
Great comp! I had a fun time animating those F bombs. Some really inspiring entries. Brandon’s animation had the whole studio here laughing hysterically, so very well done.
Matt Tovar
nice stuff!! These look great and I have to agree…I’m a fan of Brandon’s, nice acting choices.
Victor Navone
I like them all, but Brandon’s was definitely my favorite. Recount!
Dr. Gordon
It not about who wins, they are all great. There has to be a first second and third…. If it makes you feel better, the winners are basically getting the same swag.
Yanir Kleiman
Well, we can call Brandon our Miss Congeniality
adam
do the memorable mentions get a swag bag too ? i thought matt rees was a cracking piece.
Andy
Brandon and Alex – I cannot stop watching your entries. Bravo!
Greg
Brilliant!
Yavuz
really amazing stuff. Congrats to the winners.
Mathew Rees
Awesome! I got a mention!! Chuffed with that! Congrats to the winners and that blue guy walking in on Brandon’s cracked me up. Classic.
Mat.
Emilie Goulet
Congrats to the winners, the honorable mentions and to the participants!
wow…listening to the montage of “most of the entries” is pretty intense… I really wonder how C.Bale would react to see all these animations…!
Henk
Haha Pure inspiration, Really cool!
Olivier L.
yes the blue guy walking in on Brandon’s is too funny. Brilliant timing
Let me watch him again
bjarki rafn
Huge congratulations to the winners! Really great work! I specially like the timing on the incoming guy in Brandon Beckstead piece… too funny!
=b
Chris
There seems to be some one about to or trying to hack the splinedoctors.com site, i think?
Thought i would just bring it to your attention.
I just stumbled on this page by mistake:
http://www.splinedoctors.com/movies/
Just wanted to help.
great animations guys.
anthea kerou
These are fantastic, what a funny idea!! Thanks for posting them up so we all can ejoy!
-thea
Hannahmation
Congrats to the winners! Great animations! Brandon’s is my favorite too.
I enjoyed animating to the sound clip and I hope to see more competitions in the future! It was fun!
Bruno Carias
This are all good !
Highlights to the blue guy of Brandon (of course), the lip’s sync of Daniel Guertas (just fabulous Sync man !!) and the very funy end on the winer’s animation (congrats !)
Tanks again Spline Doctors !!! It was awsome to done !!!
David Bernal
oh, so awesome!!!! love them, thanks for doing this!
Karim
Wow!!!
They definitely deserved that (Brandon’s also my fav), and some others from the recollections are great too, it has been a pleasure and honor to participate with all of you guys.
And a huge thanks to the Spline Doctors for using their time to review all of them and putting them online. (especially another one of mine I didn’t expect with the blocking phase!)
There’s something that I realized regarding the subtext and the context. These things really push the scene forward.
Karim.
vince gorman
Great work everyone. Brandon’s background guy is great perfect.
Brian
Very cool work guys. Great job. Brandon’s cracks me up every time I watch it. That background guys expression is priceless. LOL
Bruno Andrade
wow, amazing stuff guys. Congratz to everyone. I really enjoyed all the peices, they all had something diferent. I gotta say that my favorite is def Brandon´s the character is very appealing and acting, the blue guy, it was awesome.
Please Doctors, dont take too long to put up another contest, I so hate myself for not trying on this one.
Chris
Fantastic work Chris, Dan and Brandon. Brandons for me has to be my favourite, the blue guy cracks me up every time i see him come in. Well executed everyone
Jon Baker
Hi All,
Well done to everyone that took part in the challenge.
I really enjoyed seeing all the entries and taking part in the competition.
Look forward to the next one, but not just yet as I’m in the midst of major crunch time!
Once again well done peeps!
Cheers
Jon
Herman
Funny
Dave
the winners are AWESOME! !Good stuff everybody.
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pe-pe-le-piu
Me too: the Brandon´s blue character…SUPERB!!
pe-pe-le-piu
wow!! and Alex work is Brilliant! The animation holds perfectly all that intensity and timing is superb. ¡When an animation is so well done you can replay it forever! And love too the gesture before “in the midle of the scene?” in the Mathew entry.
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Dave Vasquez
These are all great! I think Brandon’s is my favorite as well. Nice job man!
Thank you Spline Doctors for putting this whole contest together…I hope you do more stuff like this. Also, thanks for even including mine in there considering it was only a pencil test…hehe. =)
Phil
Absolutely brilliant. Number 2 my fave though all of them laugh-out-loud funny.
Les Toil
Third Place was my favorite. I just love the green bug that throws his hands up in exasperation when the Bale bug points him out.
mukpuddy
Wow, great stuff from everybody!! Some really funny ideas here!!
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Luke
ahahaha
great animations. Congratz ! 
toyBunny
Where would one get the rigs (if they’re creative commons, that is) that were used in the “third place” entry, would anyone know? That by the way, is my favorite. The timing on the guy walking in the background and his reaction was genius. Thanks!!
Nelxon
I enjoyed these. Awesome work guys.
saurabh
Hello
everyone,
Congratulations to all the winners.
pls do check my entry on my blog.
had great fun working for it.
thanks
saurabh.
Ted
Holy Crap. Funny stuff guys. Really. I, however, can not stop watching Brandon’s either. ROFL. Great timing and attitude.
dapoon
inspirational work there! daniel’s my favourite though! enjoyed all of them however! i hope to participate too next time!!
Nick Gooch
Great work guys! All Three were fantastic!! I really wished I’d of had more time to finish mine, but I have been inspired to keep going with the little free time I have…This sound bite is too much FUN!! You can check out where i got to by the turn in date here: http://www.nickgooch.com/WIP/bale1.mov
Pretty much just the first pass… I’ll need another couple months
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Matt Morris
toybunny – that rig is Brandon’s own afaik – he used it for his short film class at animationmentor. I don’t think it’s publicly available.
Awesome entries in there – I think Brandon’s is also my fave but great work all round!
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Robert
Brandon hands down! The background guy is pure comedy gold!
conykey
hey,everybody
thegreatcornholio01
late entry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=channel_page&v=erD7U5hs7Bw