This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Moviestorm. All opinions are 100% mine.

Now that’s one heck of a prize a $2,000 iMac, so what do you have to do to get your hands on this tasty morsel, well this is a competition from Moviestorm for those budding film makers out there to make a kids movie, get it on TV, win an amazing $2k iMac.

So I expect you are wondering what Moviestorm is, well it’s a virtual home movie studio that offers you everything to make your own animated move, now how cool is that

The software is great value and unlike other animation tools, you don’t have to pay lots of money to buy it. Instead, it’s subscription-based, and costs just $8/month – that’s $0.25/day!

If you aren’t too sure about then you can try the software out by checking it out for free on windows and Mac. There are also a stack of content packs, so you can make all sorts of movies: horror, cop shows, romance, music videos, sci-fi etc. The skies the limit, so you can just let your imagination go wild, you never know you could be the next big star in the animation world..

There is also something called “content rental”,  the unique content rental system works like real-world movie-making. Your subscription can be used to rent content packs by the day or by the month, so you only pay for what you actually use, and you don’t have a big up-front cost for expansion packs, which can save you a bit of cash at the end of the day.

Moviestorm does seem to be very easy to use and has a good collection of video tutorials to help up and coming animators with their new masterpiece.

So if you think you are up to the Moviestorm Challenge and you would like the chance to get your animation on tv and getting your hands on a iMac worth $2,000 then what are you waiting for stop by and check it out…

Ok everyone, it’s nearly time for the first Blazing Minds competition, which will official start on the 1st February and run for a few months,  sometime back I asked fellow bloggers if they would like to sponsors my competition with some prizes of their choice and I would like to thank those that have offered some great prizes, so how do you enter this competition?

Well read on

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Now I’ve meant to do this for a while now and thought the start of the new year would be the perfect opportunity to start a competition here on my blog, so now come the time to ask fellow bloggers and readers to help out by becoming a sponsor of the competition, which I will official start at the beginning of February, this will give everyone who wants to become a sponsor to let me know.

You can offer prizes such as cash, advertising spots, logo design, blog theme or anything else you feel my blogs readers would like, it’s entirely up to you.

If you would like to be a sponsor then simply leave me a comment with the prize you would like to offer and then I’ll update the list below with your prize offered. More news on what the competition will be closer to the time

Thanks everyone

List of Sponsors and prizes offered

1. A copy of 3×0’s debut CD “Silver” – IMISound
2. A month of Ad space on http://msileanesblog.blogger.com from Ileane
3. A $100 ten-year advertising spot on my blog’s pixel ad page from Custom Dream Homes
4. A Mobile Phone from Dalekcat
5. Comedy Coaching Session (1 hour) from Not A Pro Blog – $75 value from Not A Pro Blog
6. 5,000 entrecard credits and one month free widget posting on Random Thoughts
7. A 250×250 banner Ad on Work At Home Blogger from Chandan
8. One month of advertising via a 125×125 spot on KnewThis.com from Anand
9. A pen, a button and a month 125X125 Ad space on my blog to offer from Arie Rich (KMP Blog)
10. 1 week Adgitize ad (value 7$) from Cornymans Money-Blog
    1 week Adgitize ad (value 7$) from All about babies and kids
    2.000 EC + 10 CMF SPIKES (value 2$) from Cornymans Blogreviews
    2.000 EC + 10 CMF SPIKES (values 2$) from The One Minute Guide all from Cornyman’s Money-Blog
11. A 160×600 ad space on my website @ http://www.my-digital-photography.com.
12. Free FEATURED link on the directory located at http://113dir.com. From 113Directory.

Please note all prizes are supplied by the sponsors and it is their responsibility to supply prizes to winners.

So do you fancy your chances, with a great collection of prizes where the Grand Prize winner will win $5,000,  three First Prize winners will win an HDTV package worth an amazing $2,500) and Three Second Prize winners will win the Flip UltraHD™ camcorder which is worth $199.99.

All you have to do is enter the iLASIK Video Contest to have a chance of wining one of the above mentioned prizes, to enter the competition you will have to submit a video into one of the categories below:

Users make and submit a video in one of the following categories:

1. “My contacts are getting in the way of my good time”
2. “My favourite sport or activity would be so much cooler with better vision”
3. “You should see life after the iLASIK® Procedure”

Once you have submitted your amazing video, let all your friends know so that they can vote for your video, they can vote daily for your video, giving you a good chance of winning.

Please remember you can only enter one video, so make it a good one, the better it is the better the chances of you winning.

With a list of amazing prizes like these then what have you got to loose, get you video recorded and enter this superb competition.

So do your fancy winning an iPod touch or even a tasty looking Macbook, well all you have to do is enter this Netfirms contest to get a chance to win!

It’s really simple to enter all you have to do is tweet this from your Twitter account: “Win a #free iPod Touch or Macbook from the @Netfirms #contest. Domain registration services via Twitter http://bit.ly/yJfJK”

Hang on, there is another way to enter the competition, you can also get yourself entered into the competition by registering a domain name via the Netfirms Twitter Domain Registration service for $7.99. Check out the video below which shows you exactly how you do this. So it’s as easy as falling off a bike

Also you can re-tweet once per day to enable you to enter as much as you want, also each registered domain name is one entry in to the competition.

Here’s how it works:

You send a Direct Message to Netfirms via Twitter asking us to register a domain name for you. If the domain name is available we will register it for you and automatically add it to your existing Netfirms Control Panel and bill to your current billing profile. The only prerequisite is that you add your Twitter username to your Netfirms Control Panel. Please visit our tutorial with full details on setting yourself up for domain registration via Twitter. The instructions should be completed once only and you’re good to go after that.

1. Log in to your Twitter account (You can use any of the available Twitter apps)
2. Send a dm to @netfirms with the following: reg mynewdomain.com
3. We will confirm by replying to you via dm at which point the domain will be added to your Netfirms Control Panel. The domain is now ready to be used.

That’s right, it is voting time, I have chosen five names from those that were suggested on my blog for Bears’ new name, so now it’s time to vote, just select your favourite name from the list below and then click vote, you are only allowed to vote once and voting will run for a month, so that we can get a good bit of voting going on, hopefully, also please help bear by posting a link to this post on your blog/website etc letting your readers now that bear needs everyone’s help

Ok everyone it’s a bit of madness time now, my little bear has never been named

At the moment she is preparing to go to the cinema to see Final Destination 3D and is already wearing those amazing 3D shades ready to go.

But it’s no good going out without a name, so I’m asking everyone to give her a name, simples (damn that comparethemeerkat how did he get in here!) So leave a name for bear and then when there is a good choice I’ll post again with a poll of the top 10 names and then we can all have fun voting for her new name.

After which I will be taking bear on some adventures and posting what she’s up to, yes it is crazy, but what can I say, “I’m a crazy girl”

So what are you waiting for… They may even be a little prize in it for the chosen name

UPDATE: This post is now closed and the competition for a chosen name can be found at “It’s Voting Time for Bears Name“