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Zophia

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Posted September 29, '08 4:21am UTC

Alrighty, this has been brewing in the artistic minds of a few AGers lately - an animation contest!

Similar to the Art Skills Competition we need a few rules in place (largely copy/pasted, so credits to Carlie for parts of this):
1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program (GIMP is a nice free one with a build in animation filter - google it). Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified.
2. Submissions must follow the current theme. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged.
3. If your animation is larger than 630 pixels wide, please provide a link to the animation instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the animation will be cut off.
4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week. Unless only one person submits......let's hope that doesn't happen!

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Alright, let's see if this kicks off.
First theme will be ~ Jumping.
It's a basic thing to learn in animation, and it can be anything from a pixelated blob performing up/down motions, to - anything jumping.
Like:
I don't know who will do the judging yet (will be me, if no one else (like Strop?) decides they'll do it).
Deadline for first round will be October 20th, since animation is a somewhat time consuming process. Go make those pixels jump!

Alrighty, this has been brewing in the artistic minds of a few AGers lately - [i]an animation contest![/i]\r\n\r\nSimilar to the [url=http://armorgames.com/community/thread/1868562/art-skills-competition/page/1]Art Skills Competition[/url] we need a few rules in place (largely copy/pasted, so credits to Carlie for parts of this):\r\n[b]1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program (GIMP is a nice free one with a build in animation filter - google it). Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified.\r\n2. Submissions must follow the current theme. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged.\r\n3. If your animation is larger than 630 pixels wide, please provide a link to the animation instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the animation will be cut off.\r\n4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week. Unless only one person submits......let's hope that doesn't happen![/b]\r\n\r\n_______________________________________________\r\n\r\n\r\nAlright, let's see if this kicks off.\r\nFirst theme will be ~ [b]Jumping.[/b]\r\nIt's a basic thing to learn in animation, and it can be anything from a pixelated blob performing up/down motions, to - anything jumping.\r\nLike: [img]http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z121/Mazzelh/Emote.gif[/img]\r\nI don't know who will do the judging yet (will be me, if no one else (like Strop?) decides they'll do it).\r\nDeadline for first round will be October 20th, since animation is a somewhat time consuming process. Go make those pixels jump!

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kevindude6

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Posted October 11, '09 11:55pm UTC

can you please judge it already...

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kingryan

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Posted October 12, '09 12:17am UTC

Lol I haven't forgotten about this thread. And was going to judge it as soon as I somehow got this animation from flash working as a gif.

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kevindude6

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Posted October 12, '09 1:40pm UTC

erm... ok... when will that be...

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kingryan

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Posted October 13, '09 12:27pm UTC

Tomorrow, I promise.

I have been really mean to the entrants of this contest. Sorry about all the delays everyone.

Any ideas for the next theme?

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kevindude6

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Posted October 13, '09 3:55pm UTC

no not really...

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kingryan

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Posted October 14, '09 9:59am UTC

Uberly Delayed Judging...

Champs Exhibit - Random

Random has dropped off the face of the planet...so no animation from him.

First Place - Kevindude

Linkies

Another nice claymation Kevindude. The addition of the body part looked good, as did the flowers emotion and movement. The writing at the end was done very well also.

I really liked how the song was almost synced to the animation, with it changing when they got squished.

Other entries...

Only two others this week.

The Infinite Loop Award - Zega

Linkorz

A nice animation Zega, even if it only consists of a few frames. The flower looks nice.

Maybe next time try and add more frames in between to stop the cloud looking like it is jumping from place to place.

The Random Award - BarnD

A nice entry, very random...especially the unicorn. A little bit more effort could have been put into it, but overall a very good effort.

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Annoyingly that is all the entries. Here is something that I made which is flowers...although I turned it into an ecard for my sister.

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(Music from NG)

Well...lets think of a new theme...

Theme: Halloween
Deadline: One month? Around the 15th November.

Uberly Delayed Judging...\r\n\r\n[b]Champs Exhibit - Random[/b]\r\n\r\nRandom has dropped off the face of the planet...so no animation from him.\r\n\r\n[b]First Place - Kevindude[/b]\r\n\r\n[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoiKoOKwVK0]Linkies[/url]\r\n\r\nAnother nice claymation Kevindude. The addition of the body part looked good, as did the flowers emotion and movement. The writing at the end was done very well also.\r\n\r\nI really liked how the song was almost synced to the animation, with it changing when they got squished.\r\n\r\n[b]Other entries...[/b]\r\n\r\nOnly two others this week.\r\n\r\n[b]The Infinite Loop Award - Zega[/b]\r\n\r\n[url=http://www.doink.com/clips/Zega/523269]Linkorz[/url]\r\n\r\nA nice animation Zega, even if it only consists of a few frames. The flower looks nice. \r\n\r\nMaybe next time try and add more frames in between to stop the cloud looking like it is jumping from place to place. \r\n\r\n[b]The Random Award - BarnD[/b]\r\n\r\n[img]http://barns2sidebars.webs.com/drawanevilflower.gif[/img]\r\n\r\nA nice entry, very random...especially the unicorn. A little bit more effort could have been put into it, but overall a very good effort.\r\n\r\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n\r\nAnnoyingly that is all the entries. Here is something that I made which is flowers...although I turned it into an ecard for my sister.\r\n\r\n[url=http://dragon-cave-eggs-kr.webs.com/ecard.htm]Link[/url]\r\n(Music from NG)\r\n\r\nWell...lets think of a new theme...\r\n\r\n[b]Theme:[/b] Halloween\r\n[b]Deadline:[/b] One month? Around the 15th November.

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Posted October 14, '09 6:47pm UTC

SWEET but uh... hmm... im pretty stumped on ideas for this one... oh well, ill probably think of something.... something iwth zombies... or shadows...