VES Voting

Yes, I finally finished voting in the 2006 VES Awards. There were some really sweet breakdowns, and some great nominees! It sucks that there has to be one winner per category, because all the nominees in each category were excellent. I finally got to see the breakdown of the Guiness noitulovE commercial, which was posted over at MeyeMind earlier in the month. It was definitely well done, and the work that went into that spot, wow. Kudos to those guys. The other nominees in that category were Esuvee Keep it on all Fours, and Motorola-PEBL. Another category which I had a great time viewing was the music video category, with Rob Thomas, Nine Inch Nails, and Chemical Brothers as nominees. While all were excellent, I really enjoyed the NIN video, entitled Only.

One of the problems I had while voting was the lack of resolution in the quicktimes! We're judging TV, HD, and film work, via streaming Quicktime, at significantly reduced res. I think it would be beneficial for future voting sessions to have a DVD of all the nominees. They surely fit on a DVD, right? That way we'd be able to see all the detail that goes into some of the compositing and effects work. Another suggestion I'll have for next year is to put the times of each of the nominees breakdowns on the webpage. Currently we just get two viewing options, with no clue as to how long each nominee has. Sometimes it's a couple minutes, others seem close to ten.

I just checked out the new VES website, and it's so nice now. It's definitely much more professional! Very sweet.