May Competition

Congratulations to Matt Shepherd, winner of the 11 Second Club May Competition! This was a record-setting month with some really beautiful entries, but Matt's entry won over the voters with its wonderful design and exaggerated character!

In recognition of his efforts, Matt has won a professional AnimationMentor eCritique of his entry, recorded this month by Sean Sexton! Sean got his start working on Matt Groening's "Futurama" series, and has since worked his way from 2D to 3D films at Dreamworks Animation. Click here to watch his excellent critique of the winning entry!

August Competition Winner eCritique!


Big thanks go to the 899 people who voted, and for the 2311 comments they left on the entries. We encourage everyone to check out all the great work that was done this month!

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#1 - Matt Shepherd Pillow Talk 8.09 Stars

#2 - Brecht Debaene Pigeonholed 7.93 Stars

#3 - Noor Mohammed Nostalgia 7.53 Stars

#4 - Bianca Siercke Space Monkey 7.5 Stars

#5 - Kerrie Moss They Really Do Come Back 6.98 Stars

#6 - Eric Johnson See the pidgeons 6.85 Stars

#7 - Eddie Chew reminisce 6.84 Stars

#8 - Andy Wakeley Stargazing 6.83 Stars

#9 - Mohan udgiri Devil Bird 6.79 Stars

#10 - Aymeric PALERMO Big Rabbit 6.65 Stars

#11 - Marcus Tee Slacker! 6.59 Stars

#12 - Troy Chemical-X 6.58 Stars

#13 - David Humphreys Fly a KITE! its fun! 6.48 Stars

#14 - Ari Teger Let 'em Go 6.47 Stars

#15 - Tom Stockinger "Let 'em go" 6.42 Stars

#16 - Pat Carver See 'em Firefly 6.35 Stars

#16 - Clayton Miller Call Me Ishmoom 6.35 Stars

#18 - Jamie Bury See 'em fly! 6.34 Stars

#19 - jonathan macintosh Bovril 6.33 Stars

#20 - Michael Greenwood Boomerang Enthusiast 6.25 Stars

#21 - Michael Mahy Let'm Go 6.15 Stars

#22 - Firat Can Kiral Fish Orghie 6.12 Stars

#22 - Thomas Oakes Lost Me Nut 6.12 Stars

#24 - Alphonzo McFarland See 'em Fly 6.05 Stars

#25 - Claude Hurd When you.. 6.04 Stars

#26 - Friedl Jooste Dreaming 6.01 Stars

#27 - Freddy Burgos Writing Home 5.9 Stars

#28 - Neoh Sing Yee Boring Title 5.85 Stars

#29 - Duncan MacLaren Upset Penguin 5.84 Stars

#30 - Jason Spilchak The Date 5.73 Stars

#31 - Travis Ramsdale See em fly... 5.71 Stars

#32 - steph See 'em fly 5.68 Stars

#32 - Juan Calderon Pigeon Farmer 5.68 Stars

#34 - Michael Klim LV 5.62 Stars

#35 - Joo Young Lee Convincing 5.61 Stars

#36 - Teemu Fly with me LV 5.59 Stars

#37 - Koen Vanschoelant Dead Exciting 5.56 Stars

#38 - Arie Hendrawan Play r/c 5.51 Stars

#38 - Alejandro castro see them fly 5.51 Stars

#40 - Nate Lane Come up there with me LV 5.49 Stars

#41 - Christopher Hodgey The Viking 5.48 Stars

#42 - P May2009_ScreenStealer 5.46 Stars

#43 - Bee Bee let it go 5.44 Stars

#44 - Simon Hung Let'em go 5.41 Stars

#45 - Jean Pierre Morales Boomrang Fan 5.39 Stars

#46 - David Hoang Accidental flight 5.32 Stars

#47 - Lisa Taylor Flying the nest 5.31 Stars

#48 - Zeng See Them Fly! 5.3 Stars

#49 - jeffry Broken-heart illusion 5.27 Stars

#49 - Adela Covarrubias Crazy man on the roof 5.27 Stars

#51 - Mac McCann Un-interested 5.25 Stars

#52 - vineeth Spider Man Arrested...! 5.22 Stars

#53 - Matt Overly Exicited Archer 5.19 Stars

#54 - Matt d'Rozario SAY CHEESE! 5.15 Stars

#55 - JT Lim May competition 5.13 Stars

#56 - Robert Bruce Mr. Smith and his Pigeon 5.1 Stars

#57 - Igor Medovshikov Let em Gly 5.07 Stars

#58 - Romain Digonnet Too young ? 5.03 Stars

#58 - agus wibowo fall to smoke 5.03 Stars

#58 - sam ferguson See 'em fly 5.03 Stars

#61 - Bhavin Joshi Our son is Great 5.02 Stars

#61 - Francis Hua See 'em fly 5.02 Stars

#63 - Zach Catchin' Fireflies 4.96 Stars

#64 - Devia Come With Me 4.95 Stars

#65 - Christoffer Andersen Birds nest 4.9 Stars

#65 - Aaron Beitzel Day in the Park 4.9 Stars

#67 - Laura Vicent Arnau Fly 4.87 Stars

#68 - Adam Dowley Too much Coffee. 4.85 Stars

#69 - Scott Vanderheyden We'll see... 4.84 Stars

#70 - Bogey May Entry 4.83 Stars

#70 - Jason Bettinger Let em' Go 4.83 Stars

#72 - Derek Henriques Childhood changing 4.82 Stars

#73 - Morgan Read A Good Listener 4.79 Stars

#74 - Michel Dial 'E' for excited 4.78 Stars

#75 - Dennis Nikolaidis A flying what? 4.73 Stars

#76 - Hjalti Hjálmarsson Joy ride 4.68 Stars

#77 - Andy Simpson Dead Exciting 4.6 Stars

#78 - waldson Let 'em go... 4.59 Stars

#79 - Yoni Banai Talking to.. 4.58 Stars

#80 - John Fielding Grenades! 4.55 Stars

#81 - neeraj joshi I didn't mean like that.... 4.54 Stars

#82 - Chris Harris Dinner Discussion 4.53 Stars

#83 - Jarred de Beer Letting Go 4.52 Stars

#84 - Bryant tan Butterfly 4.5 Stars

#84 - Cristian Andrade Prison break 4.5 Stars

#86 - Friska Bako Pub Chat 4.49 Stars

#86 - Val Roca Sketchy Sale 4.49 Stars

#86 - Chris Higginbotham Flyboy 4.49 Stars

#89 - Rahul Gupta So Excited 4.48 Stars

#90 - Fernando Alves See em fly 4.47 Stars

#91 - Jack Bromhead Pigeon Handler 4.44 Stars

#91 - Amanda Gil Phil & Sally 4.44 Stars

#93 - Zi Chao Fly fly fly! 4.42 Stars

#93 - M. Strohbehn Bungee Jump Operator 4.42 Stars

#95 - David Renaud Flying Squirrels 4.39 Stars

#96 - Ean Dead Exciting 4.38 Stars

#96 - flying.circus Oh Boy! 4.38 Stars

#98 - Amy Sendon Santa's Workshop 4.37 Stars

#99 - Emrah Gonulkirmaz See 4.34 Stars

#100 - Craig Kelly Fire Flies Fly 4.33 Stars

#101 - Leon Beutl see 'em fly 4.32 Stars

#101 - Kiran Cool Dad! 4.32 Stars

#103 - Jim Donovan Crazy old man in a sandbox. 4.3 Stars

#104 - Brendan Fagan Snail of a time 4.27 Stars

#105 - Young-Min Yoon Dead Exciting 4.25 Stars

#106 - brajagopal Arubam Poor friend 4.22 Stars

#107 - Adam Hensel LV cant see 4.18 Stars

#108 - Michael Nair super dead exciting 4.17 Stars

#109 - Erim Bener In Hell 4.15 Stars

#110 - Ryan Uttech Solitary 4.14 Stars

#110 - cengizer gokce father's tale 4.14 Stars

#112 - Tim Shim The Curious Case Of Log and Lin 4.08 Stars

#112 - Nir Hermoni Let 'em go 4.08 Stars

#112 - Joshua Haines Fly Fly 4.08 Stars

#115 - Craig Olsson Go Fly a Kite 4.07 Stars

#116 - Paint squirrel 4.06 Stars

#117 - Serg B. Boomerang 3.99 Stars

#118 - Laura Friesen Dead Exciting 3.98 Stars

#119 - ChrisDaugaard Dude, Let Em Go! 3.92 Stars

#120 - kirti N Rathod when u let em go 3.91 Stars

#121 - Brad Groatman Dead Exciting 3.88 Stars

#121 - Tadashi Chiba GARAGOSSA!! 3.88 Stars

#123 - Lewis Rogers Paper airoplane racing 3.85 Stars

#124 - John E. Gibson IV Barfly 3.82 Stars

#125 - Vitor See for yourself! 3.72 Stars

#126 - Simon Amos Mr. Zanthos May Entry 3.69 Stars

#126 - Adam Floeck Fly Away 3.69 Stars

#128 - Angel Elvie_moom 3.68 Stars

#129 - yizhack jacobs may 3.65 Stars

#130 - Debangshu chatterjee high fly 3.64 Stars

#130 - Anna Berentsen See Them Fly 3.64 Stars

#132 - Carlos A. Gonzalez V. See em fly 3.6 Stars

#133 - Eric Huelin See em fly 3.58 Stars

#134 - REHAN Alfred talk 3.56 Stars

#135 - nishath fly high 3.55 Stars

#135 - Jeffrey Makuch See em Fly 3.55 Stars

#137 - danny Old Cosmonaut 3.54 Stars

#138 - ZhenJia fly away together 3.53 Stars

#138 - Colby Let em' Fly! 3.53 Stars

#140 - Chris Ushko Penguin Dreams 3.51 Stars

#141 - MinSeok Jeon At the bar.. 3.47 Stars

#141 - Chhavi Sharma chhavi sharma 3.47 Stars

#143 - Everett Gunther Sack o' Pigeons! 3.46 Stars

#144 - connie yu In The Zoo 3.43 Stars

#144 - Pacifica J. Sauer See em Fly 3.43 Stars

#146 - Shankar Dead Exciting 3.4 Stars

#147 - Karen Just a Guy and His Beloved Pet 3.39 Stars

#148 - Marcin Klejnowski lunch break 3.31 Stars

#149 - Eddie Claudio see for your self 3.29 Stars

#150 - Michael See for yourself 3.27 Stars

#151 - Cassandra Ward Fly a kite with me 3.25 Stars

#152 - Stephanie Traska The Hang Glide Instructor 3.18 Stars

#153 - Andrew Guiliano What a jerk 3.08 Stars

#154 - Brian Murray Let 'Em Go 3.07 Stars

#155 - Justin Land When they fly 2.99 Stars

#156 - DMP "Fly" 2.94 Stars

#157 - J Z Jackson Night Moves 2.93 Stars

#158 - Octavio Arango In the field 2.92 Stars

#159 - yusra See Them Fly 2.82 Stars

#160 - Glenn Kimpel Pidgeon Pie 2.74 Stars

#161 - Shazyla Bloke Movement 2.71 Stars

#162 - Jay When you let 'em go... 2.67 Stars

#163 - praveenhappy 11 second may competition (WIP) 2.6 Stars

#163 - Ronald Coeyman Help from Dee 2.6 Stars

#165 - Phillip Giambuzi BlueVsRed 2.56 Stars

#166 - Sean Malvey Dude Chillin 2.46 Stars

#167 - Andre Murphy May Competition 2.45 Stars

#168 - Ryan Early Ryan_Early_11sec_May_2009 2.44 Stars

#168 - ChipCoffee Desk Job 2.44 Stars

#170 - David Searson Up There 2.36 Stars

#171 - Salvador G-Rodiles When you let them go 2.33 Stars

#172 - Kristal Ashely Zee the Alien 2.29 Stars

#172 - Leo May entry 2.29 Stars

#174 - Davd Bastide Dee Rig_Fly 2.27 Stars

#175 - sean goodspeed sean goodspeeds 11sec 2.25 Stars

#176 - Karlo 11-sec-may-2009 2.23 Stars

#177 - Joe F The Face 2.2 Stars

#178 - larry ANIMATION WITH DEE RIG 2.17 Stars

#179 - Eddie S First Entry 2.16 Stars

#180 - jacob Flying 2.13 Stars

#181 - Emily Rizer firsttimehere 2.06 Stars

#182 - piyush dugad 11SecClub_May_Competition 1.96 Stars

#183 - Boston Da Crazy Mohawk 1.92 Stars

#184 - Charles Pineapples 1.82 Stars

#185 - LouisArmstrong! Let 'Em Fly! 1.8 Stars

#186 - Debra Videogram 1.78 Stars

#187 - Rodney Roy The Mountain 1.76 Stars

#188 - Mats Vederhus To Be Or Not To Be 1.64 Stars

#189 - Priscilla Woo Catching ! 1.57 Stars

#190 - Tyler Wend Bee-xtravaganza 1.51 Stars

#191 - Ms Lalalicious A drunkard Man 1.26 Stars