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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!
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ok, if I can't get a proper entry in (The score is GIMP=100000 Pazx=0) this will be my entry (I hope I can get one in though)
I really hope that works... anyways, to the eternal battle against GIMP!
lol Paz, was that partly inspired by the infamous Xiao Xiao animations?
Anyway, I promised I'd do something so here's mine- it has...jumping in it xD
Done entirely in GIMP because I realised that free version of PAP has NOTHING over GIMP.
Guess how large the file is. That's right. 37.7Kb. How? I drew it with hard-pixel tool, converted to grayscale instead of indexing and optimised it under combine-layer conditions.
