Gen Art is holding a contest for designers and filmmakers in celebration of Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Gen Art has partnered with Fox Searchlight for a new competition in which filmmakers and designers come together to create five online shorts, each demonstrating how to make your own Halloween costume based on the upcoming Fantastic Mr. Fox, directed by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Darjeeling Limited).  The film is based on the popular children’s book by Roald Dahl.

Selected filmmakers and designers will win cash stipends for each costume and video showcased, followed by a final round in which one team will win a bonus cash prize of $1000.

Details are available at Gen Art’s site, where you can enter as a designer and a filmmaker. Please send us anything you enter and we’ll share it right here.

Le winner!

Best in Show (42% of the vote)

Honourable mention (23% of the vote)

Bravo, Max! We will be in touch!

Remember to buy Derek Hill’s Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood’s Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers: An Excursion Into the American New Wave (available for purchase on Amazon.com).

We received many worthy entries, nearly fifty in all, and adored all of them (see them all here).

View the nine finalists and vote for your favorite after the break! Voting closes on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at midnight ET.

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The webicon contest ends tonight at midnight! We will post the finalists and open the voting on Thursday!

E-mail edwardappleby @ yankeeracers.org or tweet @rushmoreacademy!

Oh, and new entries have been posted. You can win a copy of Derek Hill’s fantastic Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood’s Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers: An Excursion Into the American New Wave (available for purchase on Amazon.com).

Make Wes Anderson-inspired art at Paste Magazine’s Webicon.me! Then, Tweet (@rushmoreacademy) or e-mail (edwardappleby @ yankeeracers.org) us your image. We will post your entries here at the Rushmore Academy, and the best one will win of copy of Derek Hill’s fantastic Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood’s Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists and Dreamers: An Excursion Into the American New Wave (available for purchase on Amazon.com).

Contest is on-going. We will add new prizes if we extend it beyond April 1, 2009.

Check out the entries so far after the break! Please digg our contest!

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