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    Call For Entries Issued For Revamped AICP Post Awards

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    Danny Rosenbloom, AICP’s VP, Post and Digital Production
    NEW YORK --

    AICP has announced the call for entries for the AICP Post Awards, its revamped and rebranded competition for excellence in the postproduction arts. Formerly the AICE Awards, its categories have been re-imagined with a focus on recognizing standout examples of various crafts and technique in editing, audio, design, visual effects artistry and finishing.  The AICP Post Awards are a part of the AICP Awards suite of competitions, which also include The AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial and the AICP Next Awards, both of which are also currently accepting entries.

    Among the changes for the AICP Post Awards this year are the opening of the competition to any entity having involvement in the creation of a piece of content beyond the AICP membership—previously the AICE Awards was a “members only” competition. 

    For the full rundown on rules, categories, eligibility and fees, visit the AICP Post Awards entry portal here. Deadline for entries is Thursday, February 8 at 11:59pm PST. Entrants can use the portal to cross-enter work between all three of the 2019 AICP competitions, including the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial and the AICP Next Awards.

    Regarding categories, the competition has regrouped its existing categories, introduced a range of new sections, expanded others and added an entirely new category for vertical video.

    “While we’ll continue to recognize editorial across a wide range of product, genre and technique categories, we now have a wider range of subcategories in areas like audio, visual effects and design and color grading,” said Danny Rosenbloom, AICP’s VP, Post and Digital Production.

    “We saw this as an opportunity to make the Post Awards more reflective of the varied artists working across the spectrum of post production disciplines,” noted Matt Miller, president and CEO of AICP. “Now that we’ve brought all this postproduction expertise into AICP, we want the Post Awards to be a real celebration of creative talent and achievement.”

    A full list of AICP Post Awards categories now includes the following:

    Editorial Categories

    • Automotive
    • Cause Marketing
    • Comedy
    • Dialogue
    • Monologue/Spoken Word
    • Docu-Style
    • Fashion/Beauty
    • Montage
    • Music Video
    • Storytelling
    • National Campaign
    • Regional Campaign

    Audio Categories

    • Audio Mix
    • Sound Design With Composed Music
    • Sound Design Without Composed Music

    Color Categories

    • Color :60
    • Color :30
    • Color Other Lengths
    • Color Music Video

    Design, Visual Effects & Finishing Categories

    • Character Design & Animation
    • Typography Design & Animation
    • Graphic Design & Animation
    • End Tag
    • CGI
    • Compositing & Visual Effects
    • Vertical

    In addition to its category winners and Best of Show honoree, the AICP Post Awards will continue to recognize Best of Region winners that represent the best work emanating from companies submitting within each AICP Chapter. These now encompass East, Florida, Midwest, Minnesota, Southeast, Southwest and West.

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    Growth Brings Growing Pains–and Bots–To Bluesky

    Sunday, December 22, 2024

    Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk's X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner's support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta's Threads and its algorithms.

    The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter's core mechanic. That's unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky's growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms.

    But with growth comes growing pains. It's not just human users who've been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

    The skyrocketing user base — now surpassing 25 million — is the biggest test yet for a relatively young platform that has branded itself as a social media alternative free of the problems plaguing its competitors. According to research firm Similarweb, Bluesky added 7.6 million monthly active app users on iOS and Android in November, an increase of 295.4% since October. It also saw 56.2 million desktop and mobile web visits, in the same period, up 189% from October.

    Besides the U.S. elections, Bluesky also got a boost when X was briefly banned in Brazil.

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