You are required to identify a minium of 6 competitions that you are eligible to enter and producing a list for future reference that should be placed on your blog. 

These competitions could be character design, concept art, background design, model making or short animation challenges across a range of media. The choice is yours, think about your selection as a way of beginning to identify a focus (however blurry it may be at the moment).

We are asking you to undertake this small task as you need to begin to think about taking on additional extra-curricular activities to add breadth and further dimension to you portfolio of work. Small competitions are also really useful for building up wor work rate and production speed as you often do not have time to be super precious about the final output. 

However the extra work can often provide you with valuable extra seconds of work for your showreel, it demonstrates to potential employers, internship providers and other within the animation industry that you are prepared to work outside of the curriculum and challenge yourself. 

1. Encounters Film Festival- http://encounters-festival.org.uk/awards/
2. Loopdeloop- http://www.loopdeloop.org/
3. Student Design Awards- https://www.thersa.org/action-and-research/rsa-projects/design/student-design-awards
4. 11 Second Club- http://www.11secondclub.com/
5. D&AD- https://www.dandad.org/en/d-ad-new-blood-awards/
6. DeviantArt- https://www.deviantart.com/digitalart/animation/popular-24-hours/