We have winners!

After spending some time going through all 100 submissions, we were able to decide on our first place winner, five runner's up (that's right: a tie), a new Netscape animation and several honorable mentions. We are very pleased to present them, here.

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First Prize: $1000

Meteor Shower
Christopher Skinner
from Websys, Inc. in Fairfax, Virginia

Runners Up: $100 each

#1: Dancing Documents
mario champion
team smartyPants!, Texas

#2: Sunrise, Sunset
Robert M. Dean
Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#3:Mozilla Climbs the N
Kent Lee Brisby
BIOSYM Technologies in San Diego, California

#4: N Walks Over the Earth
Stephen F. Levinson
from Rochester University, New York

#4 Introducing... Mozilla!
Gerry Paquette
Algonquin College in Ottowa, Ontario, Canada

New Netscape Animation!

We are also happy to announce that we have decided to have our icon artist create an animation based on the Meteor Shower, by Christopher Skinner.

Congratulations, Christopher! Excellent Work!

Meteor Shower II
Marsh Chamberlin
Dataglyph

Honorable Mentions

We also wanted to recognize some of the other outstanding submissions with an honorable mentions and Netscape t-shirts. Click on the creator's name to see a Quicktime version of the animation running. They are:

For Humor


Michael Rader
Matthew McRae
David M. Kershner
David Chen
David Nicholson

For Mind Bending Technical Merit


Imran Chaudhri
Scott Pease
Mats Öhrman;

For Amazing Creativity


John F Sherman
Mats Öhrman;
Dan Murrell Jr.

For Excellent Use of 16 Lame Colors


Jos Vos
John Loehrlein

For Extreme Weirdness


Iain Anderson
David M. Kershner
Dave Hartmann

For Extreme Coolness


John Warren
Brian Kaplan
Bevan Wang
We would like to thank everyone who participated in the contest. Your animations brought laughter, inspiration, and awe into our work. Everyone who submitted an animation that we were able to judge will be contacted and will receive a Netscape t-shirt. Great job, folks and thank you.
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