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Just added another great commercial video assignment on Poptent. This one is for Capella University, a national leader in online education. Come join up and get all the details for this excellent assignment.

Back in 2007 we did an assignment for Zorbeez, the super absorbant cloth. Their pitchman, Billy Mays, was one of the most famous infomercial talent in the business and we enjoyed seeing all the great videos our community produced, using Billy’s style as expert inspiration.

We’re sad to see his tragic passing and wish his family and friends well.

We’ve signed a great new client with a really fun assignment. Check out the Los Angeles Jr. Dodgers Kids Club.

This is a quick one, folks! Only three weeks to get ‘er done. And obviously, it’s geared towards you LA people, but certainly anyone can enter. Lots of great awards for everyone, so get those creative wheels a-turnin’.

Let’s help spread the word that using a .info domain is a great way to get people the information they need, quick. Head over to the .info Assignment on Poptent and think of some cool and interesting ways to help tell their story. I think this one is particularly ripe for some viral computer nerd action, baby! Get on it!

We’ve got this and several other excellent commercial assignments for indie filmmakers up at Poptent right now. Come check them all out here and show off your creative mastery to the world!

We’re happy to announce that our friends at Old Spice have launched not one, but two new assignments with us in the past week. This one for their body wash scrubber for men, the Deck Scrubber. We’re excited to have this one live with it’s partner in clean - the Ever Clear assignment.

As always, don’t forget to upload your demo reel while you’re at Poptent. It’s a great way to show off your best work and get a chance at the monthly $500 prize for the best work.

Videos don’t get much cooler than this. Director Bang-yao Liu’s school project is really tearing up the viral video charts, for good reason. Just take 6000 Post-it Notes, and spend some time with your buddies locked in a room for four days and this is what you get…

This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.

Directed by Bang-yao Liu
Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com)
Sound design by Shaun Burdick

And how lucky are we that he made a ‘making of’ video, too!

(via Sun Sentinal)

We’re always happy when it comes time to reward the Demo Reel of the Month. As always, we continue to see an influx of incredible talent and energy from our creative community. It’s always difficult to choose just one of the reels to win the award, but we get such a charge out of seeing some of the draw-dropping work you guys produce.

Didn’t get yours in this month? Be sure to submit your demo reel officially for consideration! We’re doing this all again in June.

For May 2009, the winner of the $500 for best reel goes to:

Honorable Mentions

Another huge success! We just sold three awesome commercials to our client Our Pets and their Smart Scoop brand of kitty products. Each of these three videos earned their creators $2000 as well as $250 worth of Our Pets products. Congratulations, folks!

Didn’t get a chance to make your funny cat video? Don’t forget to take a look at the current Our Pets campaign for Play n’ Squeak cat toys!

Also, these videos were awarded Honerable Mentions by the Our Pets team. Congratulations on a job well done to these talented folks as well.

• Volition Studios “Unfresh Smell”
• Andy Signore “They’re Family”
• Rick Griffin “SmartScoop Song”
• Andrew Laurich “Life Like a Cat”
• Susan Emshwiller “What is It”
• kahit1227 “Old Tymer”