OH MY GOD, there is another contest that just finished by Century21, very similar issues…do rules mean anything anymore?

This contest was a joke. These semifinalists clips are very un-radiohead. There were some amazing videos that were everyones favorited and then this crap popped up out of the blue. What a farce!

Aniboom also has not responded directly to the valid accusations that some of the semi-finalists used pre-existing fully animated footage from previous projects. It seems they are hoping that the anger subsides and that the issue will be forgotten. The entire contest was extremely prejudiced against contestants that were not industry professionals.

Aniboom has clearly misled participants, delayed announcements in order to generate thousands of hits, and selected previously rendered, non storyboard, unorigial pieces for their contest’s semifinalst stage. Someone needs to bring this injustice to light!

This contest was a scam. Read the discussion boards on Aniboom! Hopefully, Radiohead will find out about the fact they have been USED by Aniboom for advertising. FACT: Contestants were told that “views and ratings” were a factor in becoming a semifinalists, then contradicted themselves to say “it’s a contest about quality”.
Contestents were in the dark about how they actually won, and contacted everyone they know to vote, driving traffic to Aniboom.
The semifinalists prove that views and ratings never mattered.
Only one Aniboom representative speaks on the message boards, and he is unprofessional and barely speaks English.
Aniboom broke thier own rules during this entire contest:
1. they moved contest dates to fit their advertising needs
2. they were purposely cryptic and unclear about how winners were chosen, insinuating views contributed to winning, in order to drive traffic to their website
3. they chose semifinalists that broke their own contest rules by choosing winners who had created the animations before the contest began and had nothing to do with Radiohead songs when created
IS anyone going to care? We’ll see…
Of all bands to be associated with a marketing scam…Radiohead? The one band you’d think would not tolerate it.

One of the semi finalists has also previously worked with Radiohead before (archer$beck) and are quite a major production company. In addition to the previous two mentioned, another semifinalist’s work has been found to be previously released animation with Radiohead music dubbed over the top. That’s three so far in breech of the competition’s own rules. No statement has been made by aniboom. This competition is corrupt.

the most astonishing thing about this contest is the enormous distance between the semi-finalists (so superficial and poor) and something you would actually expect from radiohead.
maybe next time they will spare some of their time to actually listen to the album.
and so should aniboom.

Two of the Semifinalists (the Faust Arp one and 16Tracks) may be disqualified, however - they were simply existing projects (one commercially distributed and that had been shown in several festivals!) with radiohead songs dubbed over top. Dudes just won $1,000 each for ripomatics!

You can see for yourself on the Radiohead contest part of Aniboom’s forums.

Aniboom’s jury look a bit like eejits right now.