me and a teammate just won an animation contest at my university

the challenge was simple: make a simple animation not using stuff like Maya and motion tweens - The idea being that in the semester we're to learn animation, so starting out by having to do a simple one made sense...

I made this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDX9c6QCN0g

(the other guy in my team only contributed with the spooky-music used in the beginig during the "anyone there" bit)

here's why we won:

- it was funny (not just random stuff - although we did use interweb humor)
- it has a proper story (most others were just random stuff)
- it had a "the end" (with ROCK MUSIC!)
- it used the music in the animation to enhance the feel of the visual animation
- i apparently have a reputation for making whacky stuff? (see my youtube videos...)
- it was the last animation shown in the contest (bored ppl going "yay" for it being over)
- the party hard music in the The End bit riled people up for bigger applause (we were judged on applause)

nobody had expected us to win

but hey - a WINRAR IS ME!