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“Second time bomb on the right, please”. The above photo is supposed to illustrate the below article about mediocre Hollywood products- but it’s not a comment on the quality of Airplane II. Airplane II was awesome. Read Julie Gray’s piece below to see if you can figure why I used this image. Today’s post comes [...]

Sean K Berry is a casting director and videographer in Toronto. He is the host of Casting Couch Radio, a radio blog for entertainment industry pros, independents, amateurs and everyone in between. Sean wanted to address an aspect of professionalism in the film and design industry for the Zooppa community. There’s an old Hollywood story [...]

CHERRish Winners Announcement Thanks for your patience peoples. Another great Zooppa contest. The CHERRish competition brought in about a ton of animation – almost half the submissions were animated! – And the client was obviously very impressed with the skill of our animators, because the top three prizes went to animated submissions! So without any [...]

We have the winners. First, I’d like to congratulate everyone who participated in this contest. This has been a phenomenal, historic contest. We received a total of 84 videos, and I’d say that there are easily 15 that are ready for television right now. So thanks to everyone who had a hand in these 84 [...]

THIS IS NOT A FOOT-IN-THE-DOOR BUSINESS Getting a job* in advertising and design is not a who-you-know business. A great book makes the introductions, not your resume. So internships are not very valuable unless you also get great samples for your portfolio. It’s not that I’m anti-internship, it’s just I don’t think it’s your best [...]

Hi Everyone- I just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I’ll be doing my best to get the winners settled for Pillsbury and Cherrish. We aim to get winners announced one week after contests close, so I’ll try to get them announced via the blog on Monday, May 17. We’ve delivered all [...]

Hi Zooppers! OK Folks- So we’ve got all the SKY awards accounted for. Below you’ll find all the Client, Zooppa & Community awards for the SKY competitions’ fabulous videos and prints. Thanks to everyone who participated, and Lena will be in touch with the winners! Here we go: SKY Client Video Award, Waiting When You [...]

Zooppers are responsible for making sure that they have the right to use the images, video & music in their uploads. But how do you unsure everything in your Zooppa upload is clear of copyright? Well, one tool in your arsenal can be an understanding of the Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons is a label [...]

Zooppers- The Pillsbury competition ends THIS Monday, May 10! If you’re working on a submission, it could behoove you to get it in as early as possible. I will be here on Monday to help people through problems with uploads, but just in case- it might be a good idea to get your submission in [...]