Having seen the event many time during my university years, I’ve always wanted to get involved somehow… Just seems like the totally random event that I would be interested in.

Well, the chance is here, and we are entering this year’s 48Hours, which is the biggest film making contest in New Zealand. Teams from around the country will be dipping their brain cells in caffeine (well, in this case likely “V”, since they are sponsoring the event), trying to make a film incorporating the random genre and elements that we get given on the launch night (TONIGHT), within 48 hours. Going to be a rather crazy weekend. Apparently there are over 600 teams entering this year.

We are entering as an animation team, and will be filming with the software that we developed ourselves (well, if you’re here you probably know about our software already). We’ve been quite happily making animations in record breaking times so far, and this will be a good stress test to see how far we can push the whole animation process.

Knowing how strict the organisers are with the 48 hour time limit (1 second late, is too late), I’m still relatively confident about getting an animation out within the 48 hours. Hopefully we’ll still get the time to throw in some extra stuff at the end if time allows.

We’ll be spending pretty much the next 2 days in our office building, walled away in a networked room with a bunch of guys cranking on this thing, although not exactly a romantic thing, it should be very much fun at least.

We’ve got a bunch of sponsors that we want to thank, they are:

• Hell Pizza
• Funky Pumpkin
• Verkerks
• Underground Coffee
• Last but not least, the Canterbury Innovation Incubator (Cii), they are pretty much family to us.

If I get the chance I might write a few quick blogs about our progress over the weekend.