Prufrock81 , your animation have quality to be in first place, i have the same feelings about "Watching The Stars !" from vied, i will not talk about the .wmv format problem , advantage or suposed problem, it is in the rules, it doesnt matter, the results will not be changed, as candid told, your animation is one of my favorite too, nothing against any competitor, but i dont agree the first place at all and the second place at all ( first place in animation) i agree with candid, the second place has no level to be there, is just an academic art director (that i am) opinion, i dont know the reason that in an animation contest they didnt watch to the point "the animation" they obviously doesnt see the cinematic edges too, the crazy rotating cameras, the strange plans, the script etc, in your animation i see a good camera plan, artistic concept, and the most important for an animation contest "the animation" i felt strange when i saw photos in 2d contest, well if there is a photographs category why to place photos at 2d contest?? if there is a 3d contest why to place 3d images at 2d contest? i repeat , is not against any competitor, liked your work, desagree your format but i dont think that it is the main point, other point is the justify " they judge at a subjective viewpoint" well, i studied Art and media and visual programming at the university 6 years and in 6 years all the artistic stuff where judged by technical and teoric ways, such as concept, style, photography etc such as in Hollywood or Golden Globe or any other serious award, u think that they used subjective viewpoints to choose?? i dont think that it can be diferent here, we are the people that do movies, visual concepts, composing, etc , why to think different, we can see people working in major projects in cinema or tv at cgtalk, why here we have to be too amateur?? Subjective way, give me a break! once somebody told that the judges are people that knows much, so , why this "subjective way" i will tell u again, is not against u or the other competitors, we did our job,