Fotolia Announces Video Competition Winners
Hello Fotolians!
We are happy to announce the results of the first video contest launched by Fotolia to greet our new contributors, video makers and digital designers, who are populating the Fotolia video collection with great video clips and footage.
The video contest was launched last May 19th. The challenge consisted to reach the maximum number of video files approved before June 20th.
This time we have 1 Algerian (first) and 2 Italian contributors (2nd and 3rd) on the Fotolia podium!
Here the winners are :
1 prize 3000 credits with 1848 accepted video clips :Yahia LOUKKAL
Yahia is a Algerian designer, that's how he comments his victory:
"I’ve been contaminated by the Fotolite (sounds like a disease in French) in October 2008 thanks to a friend. Since then, I enjoy the power of the Fotolia website and services and I am now very happy and proud to be part of this family. That’s why I don’t miss any occasion to speak about Fotolia everywhere I go. My biggest wish would be to see one day A Fotolia Algeria website.
I want to also invite all photographers, designers, video designer to join Fotolia which allows us to expose and sell our works but also to learn from other contributors who belong to this great family. I like challenges, so I have not hesitated for one second to participate with this contest . I did my best and I would like to thank my computer which worked days and nights during one month.
2nd prize of 1000 credits with 1839 accepted video clips goes to
Designer Andrea aka Andrea Di Flaviano:
Andrea,Italian from Abruzzo, the region recently hit by a heartquake catastrophe, is a 27 year old digital designer with a passion for videos. Andrea is a freelancer and has been actively producing work for Fotolia since October 2007. He is an exclusive Fotolia contributor for microstock content. Andrea, who is still under shock for the great news, tells us how she managed to have 1839 videos accepted on Fotolia in one month:
"Over the past month i have been an octopus latched on my pc, actually on 3 PC, of which one borrowed from my girlfriend who has also helped me a lot in the indexing process. I hardly went out, but for 2 family events i just could not miss. Every day from 7 AM until 2 AM i have created and uploaded videos non stop up to about 30 GigaByte in total. At night i was uploading the heaviest renders." Thank you Fotolia for this great opportunity and much love to this fantastic community that makes me grow everyday, professionally and personally!"
3rd prize of 500 credits with 1205 accepted video clips goes to BMG aka Francesco Lombardo:
Francesco is Fotolia addicted too, since October 2008. He lives in Genoa and has his own company BananaMonsterGraphic, specialized in digital arts, from creative design to video-clips productions.
Passionate about drawing, video and movies since he was a child, started his creative path when he was a teen, with urban graffiti as writer and with comics illustrations. For his works Francesco prefers open source applications: Blender for the advanced mesh modelling and professional renders, Wings, The Gimp, Photoshop, Illustrator and Inkskape.
His comments: "This video contest is the proof that nothing is impossible if you work hard at it ! I had a computer crash in the first days, and went through 10 days of desperation before the new one was delivered. I feel at home in Fotolia, this community is made of very special people and this prize is an immense achievement for me, it shows one can make his own passion into a real job. Thank you Fotolia"
Congratulations to our 3 winners and a big thank you to All who participated to this contest!
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