Competition

 

The tenth annual West Virginia Flash! Festival will place on the campus of West Liberty University on Friday, April 23, 2010. Students from colleges and universities throughout West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky will compete for $2,000  in cash prizes in three different categories: Animation, Electronic Music, and Video. Sponsors included Apple Computer and the Pittsburgh Chapter of the AIGA. Call for entries details are available by clicking here.

Special Guest Workshops

 

This year we are excited to announce a full day of free activities, with animation, electronic music, and video workshops being conducted during the day, and the the ever popular Flash! collegiate competition in the evening.

 

Animation presenter:

Robert St. Pierre, from Los Angeles, CA. Robert is currently employed as a Background Layout Artist at Walt Disney Television Animation. Recent projects include workbook/layout artist for "Princess and the Frog" and Production Designer for the feature film "9".

Electronic music presenter:

 Jeff Essex, from San Francisco, CA. Jeff is Creative Director of audiosyncrasy, where he creates music, sound effects and voiceover for multimedia. His clients include Disney Online, Nick Online, shockwave.com, Beatnik, Sun Microsystems, digeo, Apple Computer, Red Sky Interactive, and @Home. He authored the book, "Multimedia Sound and Music Studio", for Random House/Apple New Media, which won the prestigious Computer Press Award for Best Advanced How-To Book.

 

 

Video presenter: To be announced.

 

Live Televised Event

 

The collegiate competition will be  broadcast live via WLTV to 55,000 cable customers. A live webcast will also be made available to viewers from around the world. 

  CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WINNING ENTRIES OF THE 2009 FESTIVAL

A new feature for the 2009 event was our live Skype Connection, set up and managed by Lucas Smithbauer, a 2010 Digital Media Design student at West Liberty. The connection allowed the winners of the festival to link a live video feed from their computers to the studio audience, so we were able to see their immediate reactions to winning an award, and also to hear from them about their winning animations. View highlights from the festival below. 

2008 WINNERS

PAST FESTIVALS

  

For information please contact:

James Haizlett
Associate Professor of Art
Festival Founder and Director
jhaizlett@westliberty.edu