Israeli startup AniBOOM has raised $4.5 million for its emerging online animation community, which it hopes to turn into a distributed animation studio.

The company has a number of interesting projects in the works, including a just-concluded contest that attracted 2,000 animators from 72 countries and awarded $50,000 in prizes. The submissions have so far attracted 2.5 million views. The winner, below, video after the jump.

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