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Challenge Your World 20/20

What is Challenge Your World?

We help young people connect with academic institutions, NGOs, government agencies and corporations in a collaborative process of knowledge-sharing and problem-solving in order to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges.

Why should I get involved?

By demonstrating your creativity, passion and unique insight, you’ll be gaining real-life work experience, building your resume, and showing future employers your true potential—all while making the world a better place!

How do I get started?

Once you’ve signed up and completed your profile:

  1. Select a Challenge
  2. Review the Knowledge base
  3. Join a discussion

Bringing your ingenuity and perspective to the conversation will help us reach objectives faster and ensure lasting change.

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About Motionographer

With over 30,000 visits a day, Motionographer is an industry-leading source of inspiration for motion design, animation, and filmmaking, featuring outstanding artwork, a closer look at influentials, and commentary that sparks discussion and introspection.

More about Motionographer and Challenge Your World 20/20at www.motionographer.com.

20 Artists. 20 Videos.

Challenge Your World 20/20 is a partnership between Challenge Your World and Motionographer. 20 video artists create 20 wild, whimsical, and unconventional machines that solve environmental issues. If we’re going to transform the world we have to push ourselves to think differently.

To submit a video, contact us: video@challengeyourworld.com

A Better Tomorrow
Nicholas Bentley

About the Video

A Better Tomorrow Ltd offers your average Joe the opportunity to own, for a reasonable fee, the latest in portable, pocket size time travelling device. Enabling anyone, regardless of background, age and political views to pop over to another point in time and space to change things as they see fit.

A liberating tool for the masses designed and created by Dr.E.R.Bloomquist who after many years of working at flagship scientific institutions in progressive R&D has taken their knowledge and somehow applied it.

"It’s really all about changing yesterday for a better tomorrow"

Website: http://www.iambentley.co.uk
Email: nick@iambentley.co.uk

Natural Re-sasters
Aaron Becker

About the Video

Natural Re-sasters is a documentary short that takes a look back at the year 2067, when man learned how to re-channel energy from natural disasters plaguing the earth.

About the Artists

Aaron Becker studied design and illustration at Washington University in St. Louis. From 2005-2008 worked as an art director, title designer, and animator for Prologue Films in Venice, CA. He currently works for Digital Kitchen.

Jason Esser graduated from Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg, Illinois. Since 2007, he has worked at Digital Kitchen as a designer, animator, and concept artist.

Creative Director: Aaron Becker / Art Director: Jason Esser
Design & Animation: Ryan Sneddon, Mike Cone, Chris Green
Original Music: Mark Walk (ophonic.com)
Narration: Jeff Christian (jcwhittler@worldnet.att.net)
Sound Design & Editing: Andrew Maggio (framecycle.com)
Producers: Colin Davis, Kent Smith

Website: http://www.aaronbecker.tv / http://www.jasonesser.com / http://www.d-kitchen.com
Email: aaronmbecker@gmail.com / esser1185@gmail.com

La chaussettologie
Yann Benedi & Celine Desrumaux

About the Video

Through this video, we wanted to show that a simple daily object can have disastrous damage if we don't care about it. We are telling the story of a Blue Planet, the last meeting of the inhabitants to try to save the planet. Unfortunately they aren't focused on the real problem, which will doomed them. But it's not too late for us...

About the Artists

Yann and Celine met in the school Supinfocom, where each of them did a short movie (Gary and Yankee Gal). They recently directed their first commercial for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Website: http://groovythesushi.blogspot.com / www.yannbenedi.blogspot.com
Email: cel.desrumaux@gmail.com / yannbenedi@hotmail.fr

The Amazing Green Hat
Mojo

About the Video

"The Amazing Green Hat" is inspired by Chindôgu, the Japanese art of "unuseless inventions" (an invention that cannot be regarded as "useless" in an absolute sense, since they do actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot positively be called "useful."). The hat will allow the wearer to grow a tree on his head, thereby promoting the growth of trees in any part of the world. The animation is presented as a mockumentary, like a typical Japanese product demonstration video.

About the Artist

MOJO is an award-winning Singapore-based motion design studio, helmed by Creative Directors Josef Lee and Cindy Liu, that specializes in direction, design, animation and branding for Film & TV. Neither of them speak nor understand Japanese.

Website: mojo.sg
Email: info@mojo.sg

Potato
Moustache

About the Video

Chips, French fries, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes or poutine, the potato is cooked in an infinite number of ways. Thanks to the starch it contains, it is also used in industry for the manufacture of plastics and even fuel. If the potato replaces oil tomorrow, could man and his love of the potato be the machine that refines this new source of energy?

About the Artist

In 1999 two Parisian mustaches met while studying graphic art at the ESAG/Penninghen. Guided by an irresistible desire to explore the endless world of moving images, they crossed the Channel and took on the traditional English mustache settling there for a while. Later, back home among the thick hair of France, the two mustaches grew in isolation from each other, one in an agency and the other directing. But tired of going their separate ways, they decided to join their combs and work together again: Moustache was born.

Website: lesfreresmoustache.com
Email: lesfreresmoustache@gmail.com
Based on Artwork by Théo Gènnitsakis: theogennitsakis.com
Music: Chateau Marmont http://www.myspace.com/chateaumarmont

One day...
MainFrame

About the Video

Mainframe's film is a lighthearted take on the future of environmentalism, focusing on ideas about the recycling and reclamation of energy. As science strives to harness the power of nature in order to derive cleaner sources of power, the short animation highlights the idea that society already produces enormous quantities of energy merely as a by-product of everyday life.

About the Artist

Mainframe is a creative production studio, specialising in motion graphics and animation for ads, promos and branded creative content. Most of the work is for broadcast but output includes projects for cinema, online and mobile media. Mainframe comprises 20ish highly tuned creative minds in peak physical and mental condition and quite a lot of expensive kit.

Email:adam@mainframe.co.uk / seb@snkmedia.co.uk
Production studio: Mainframe
Lead Animator: Fraser Davidson
Animator: Mark Warrington
Illustratiors: Giedre Domzaite, Dina Makanji
Spot effects, VO record,and audio Mix: Seb Juviler @ SNK Media
Voiceover: John Guerrasio
Thanks to Helen @ Yaketyyak

Need | Want
Trango

About the Video

Trango's Need|Want machine is a magical global network used to barter all the excessive things in our possession. The crows are the machine’s agents used to scout each case and update the inventory of exchangeable items. Whenever anyone uses the machine to get rid of the excessive material objects that they own, they get something they need and at the same time, they automatically help someone who is much more needy than they are.

About the Artist

Trango Interactive started out as a game development company in 2004 and slowly grew into a full service CG studio, working on games, interactive and broadcast projects. Some of the award-winning campaigns we have worked on include work for Scion, Nike, Lexus, Blackberry, Audi, Discovery Channel and UPS. Trango would love to collaborate with other studios and artists on projects similar to Challenge your World and other causes trying to make this planet a better place to live in.

Produced by: Trango Interactive
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Website: www.trango.tv
Email: Shehryar.Hydri@itrango.com

Recycle invaders
Thiago Maia

About the Video

My imagination of a perfect world was the inspiration for my machine. It transforms paper back into trees (the reverse process performed by humans). Flying hands would come and collect the paper to feed the machine and plant the trees in the earth – doing the manual work for us. In reality, we need to do our part and help the environment by using less and recycling more.

About the Artist

Thiago Maia is a Brazilian director, designer and animator. For the past 6 years, he has been in London where he had the opportunity to work with some tremendous people producing work for the Cartoon Network, BBC, Microsoft, Pepsi, Nickelodeon, RedBee, Sky and Nokia (to name a few). His work is a mixture of styles and media, and he continuously experiments with original and creative solutions.

Websites: www.thiago.tv / www.crazylittlemonkey.tv
Email:hello@thiago.tv
Music:Marcelo Baldin (www.combustion.ws)

The crown jewel
Greg Herman & Babe Elliott Baker

About the Video

"This film represents some ideas Babe and I feel very strongly about. Food is key to our survival and good or healthy food is essential for our well being. Not only does our machine help the environment, but helps everyone grow their own nuitritionally rich foods. Becoming less dependent on what the government decides to feed us, becoming more self sufficient and supportive of our independent growers and local farms. To promote our solution, we felt a broken retro style commercial aesthetic was appropriate as advertising is still part of the problem. The Crown Jewel is solar powered, featuring a detector for separating Heirlooms from Genetically Modified seeds, with preset ultimate growing conditions for your fruits and veggies, and built-in compost bin. We hope you enjoy the film."

About the Artists

GREG: Greg is an independent director and freelance designer/animator who is currently working remotely in the mountains of North Carolina. He previously worked in NYC at Digital Kitchen, working on development and conceptual design as well as 2d and 3d animations. Greg shoots a lot of Photography and also spends time studying and making matte paintings, one of his main interests. Greg also enjoys writing as an author on Motionographer. You can also read Greg's personal Blog called swordsandhorses.com

BABE: "Babe is Commercial Director & Designer out of Asheville, NC. A conceptual freak of nature self-taught in fine art, design, motion, sound, and dance. His well-rounded experience working in film & entertainment, broadcast, and corporate industries, give him an approach and style like no other. He helped create Motionographer back in it's infancy and just recently launched WeAreGreen.tv to share his other passions."

Website: www.morechi.com / www.babebaker.com
Email:greg@morechi.com / babe@bigandfancy.com
Music: Robert Gaston

Retrocycling Robot
Sebastian Baptista

About the Video

The Retrocycling Robot is a new system for recycling garbage. Instead of reusing trash to create something new, the robot returns rubbish to its original state, thus curtailing pollution and unnecessary consumption. As a result, the Retrorecycling robot not only cleans your mess but also teaches you not to pollute or over-consume. Be advised: if you don’t understand this concept you too could be returned to your original state!

About the Artist

Sebastian Baptista is a freelance motion designer born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1983. He began working as an editor when he was 19, and after a year started using After Effects. Then he discovered motion graphics and began to study the work of the world’s best motion graphics studios. He decided to move to Europe and base himself in Barcelona where he’s been working for the past two years.

Website: www.sebastianbap.com
Email: hello@sebastianbap.com

Design: Robokid
Website: www.robokid.tv

Quantum Paper
Pierre Vanni

About the Video

What if the laws of quantum physics that govern our microcosm were applicable at our level? We know of many superfluids and even supersolids, so why not superpaper? Imagine a quantum state of paper capable of creating water without depleting its matter — the birth of an inexhaustible resource.

About the Artist

Pierre Vanni, 25, is a French graphic designer. Trained in Applied Arts at Toulouse-Le Mirail University, he is currently completing his doctorate. Skilled in new and innovative tools, Pierre's artistic experiments and professional projects attempt to find new uses for computer animation, primarily by combining digital media with delicate — at times ridiculous — creations in paper and cardboard. His artwork is thus no longer confined to a flat monitor. By creating with paper, he fills all spatial dimensions. Remaining close to contemporary art practices and media, his guiding principle can be summed up in the desire to maintain a more intimate dialogue with the public through tangible, sculptural, and fragile creations.

Music: Guillaume Kidula ( kidula@gmail.com )
Website: www.pierrevanni.com
Email: pvanni@hotmail.fr

Step-o-Tron
Yaya & Momo

About the Video

People hike, people dance, people run! The average person walks around 6000 steps per day. That adds up to about two million steps each year, which is a huge amount of force created by a basic body movement. With Step-O-Tron, a shoe-system with an integrated newton-generator, we can capture this energy and store it on a built-in power card. This energy can then easily operate any electrical appliance using the Step-O-Tron Add-On. Now you can power up your laundry machine after some shopping, heat up your dinner after walking your dog, and operate the television after your daily run! Step-O-Tron... Keeping human energy alive!

About the Artists

Yaya & Momo is the collaborative playground of Markus and Karin Hofko, a German couple who produce a wide range of artistic works mainly in the realm of video. Both have been working individually as artists, designers, and musicians under their pseudonyms The RainbowMonkey and Kir Royal for over 10 years. After their studies in Communication Design and Multimedia in Augsburg, Germany, they moved to Auckland, New Zealand, where they now live and work.

Websites: www.rainbowmonkey.de / www.kir-royal.net
Email: info@rainbowmonkey.de

Do your part
Bran Dougherty-Johnson

About the Video

There is no magic machine for us to solve the serious and massive environmental crisis we are now facing. We each need to do our part. Collectively, small changes on a large scale will make an enormous impact. There's no machine. The machine is us.

About the Artist

Bran Dougherty-Johnson is an independent designer and animator who does personal projects under the name Grow Design Work. Bran also organizes PSST! Pass it on... a collaborative short film series which is about to release its third edition PSST!3.

Websites: www.growdesignwork.com / www.psstpassiton.com
Email: bran@growdesignwork.com

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