Basement Gary, an original animated film by Sean Donnelly and Alessandro Minoli, has won the 2009 Playboy Animation Contest.
The 11-minute short is about an inventor who creates a machine that lets his landlord’s teenage son experience drugs without taking them. The machine, however, doesn’t work out quite the way its inventor intended.
Donnelly, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, and Minoli, an actor and writer who did several voices and the music, will receive $10,000. The winning entry, plus other contenders, can be seen online at www.playboy.com/animation.
In announcing the winner of the contest, Playboy also solicited entries for the 2009 Playboy Animation Contest: Round 2, offering up another $10,000 prize.
The deadline for entry is Nov. 1. For details on entering, visit playboy.com/animation.
