Radiohead Selects Four Winners of the aniBoom Animated Video Competition
Contest to Create Video for a Song from Radiohead's IN RAINBOWS
Receives Submissions of Overwhelming Quality, Inspires Band to Select
Four Winners to Each Collect $10,000 Prize
Radiohead Lead Vocalist Thom Yorke "Totally Blown Away" by Quality
of Entries
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Radiohead, aniBoom (aniboom.com), the premier independent
animation network, and TBD Records have named the winners of the In
Rainbows Animated Music Video Contest, as selected by the members of
Radiohead themselves. Due to the extraordinary quality of the
submissions, Radiohead decided to choose four winning videos, rather
than a single winner, and is going to provide the additional prize
money so that each of the four creators receives $10,000 to produce
their full-length video. Radiohead will possibly use the videos in
support of future singles from In Rainbows.
The winning video clip submissions and their creative teams are:
-- "15 Step V2.0" by Kota Totori, Japan, for the song "15 Step"
(http://www.aniboom.com/video/236519/15-step-v2.0/)
-- "16 Tracks Vs. Videotape 2.0" by Wolfgang Jaiser and Claus
Winter, Germany, for the song "Videotape" (
http://www.aniboom.com/video/236713/16tracks-vs-videotape-2.0/
)
-- "Reckoner V2" by Clement Picon, France, for the song
"Reckoner" (http://www.aniboom.com/video/235299/Reckoner-v2/)
-- "Transmutation" by Tobias Stretch, U.S.A., for the song "Weird
Fishes / Arpeggi"
(http://www.aniboom.com/video/233397/Transmutation/)
"The aniBoom video competition, totally blown me away it has,"
said Thom Yorke, lead vocalist of Radiohead. "We are proud that In
Rainbows songs were the source of inspiration for so many amazing
creations."
The contest invited all creators and Radiohead fans from across
the globe to produce a one-minute animated music video clip for any
song from the band's latest album, In Rainbows, for a chance to win
the $10,000 grand prize to produce a full-length animated music video.
aniBoom received more than 1,000 entries, representing more than 150
cities, 40 countries and 5 continents. The contest was promoted on
Adult Swim, MySpace and aniBoom.com, where fans were able to vote for
their favorite video and help determine the finalists from which
Radiohead chose the winners. More information on the contest can be
found at aniBoom.com (http://aniboom.com/radiohead).
"aniBoom once again gave the independent creator community across
the globe the chance to have their work seen by millions and the
access to an opportunity that typically goes to animators from the
major studios, while generating the highest of quality content at
unprecedented cost efficiencies for both ourselves and our partners,"
Uri Shinar, founder and president of aniBoom, said. "We are so proud
to have provided Radiohead with such a tremendous selection of talent
that they were moved to choose a total of four winners."
For complete details on the contest, please visit www.aniboom.com.
About Radiohead
Radiohead is Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip
Selway and Thom Yorke.
Radiohead's recordings have included 1993's Pablo Honey, 1995's
The Bends, 1997's OK Computer (the tour for which was documented by
the 1998 film Meeting People Is Easy), 2000's Kid A, 2001's Amnesiac,
2003's Hail To The Thief and In Rainbows, which was self-released via
Radiohead.com in October 2007. In Rainbows was released to traditional
retail by TBD Records/ATO in January 2008 and entered the U.S. chart
at #1.
About aniBoom
aniBoom (www.aniboom.com) is a premier multi-platform animation
network that teams up with untapped talent around the world, to
create, produce and distribute compelling high quality animation
brands at unusual speed and cost efficiencies to web, mobile, gaming
and TV media industries worldwide.
At aniBoom.com, the company has brought together a vibrant
community of world class animators and animation enthusiasts to
create, watch and share a growing library of original independent
cartoons and animations that crosses multiple genres and interests.
Users can easily create and showcase their work using the site's
dynamic features including a robust DIY tool set called Animachines.
Throughout the year aniBoom also engages its community with a variety
of creative contests offering prizes of up to $50,000 each. The
company is based in Israel with its U.S. headquarters in San
Francisco.
About TBD Records
Part of ATO Records Group, TBD Records is a newly-formed and fully
independent record label with distribution through RED.
for aniBoom:
fortyseven communications
Sibel Sunar/Brian Rubin, 323-658-1200
sibel@fortyseven.com / brian@fortyseven.com
or
for additional information about Radiohead:
Nasty Little Man
Steve Martin, 212-343-0740
steve@nastylittleman.com
or
TBD Records/ATO Records Group/Red Light Management
Ambrosia Healy, 310-273-2266
ambrosia.healy@redlightmanagement.com
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