Vote:
Trazza
jpencilworks
subdivmaniac
Topic Suggestion:
Temptation of an addiction (a smoker trying to quit sees a cigarette, etc.)
Live grenade toss around (like the ‘pass a ball’ suggestion but with a grenade)
‘Back to basics’ (Animation Mentor like bouncing ball assignments, but must show at least 3 animations for the duration of the challenge)
SirRon
Subdivmaniac
Trazza
Good work everyone Im looking forward to the next challenge.
Hello All,
First of all, this is great to be involved in. Thanks to the organizers, and everybody that participated.
Thoughts on the competition: I think that when the competition is launched the next time, there should definitely be no more than three choices of what to animate.
I think choice is nice, but I also don’t see snything wrong with offering just one topic, and thats it.
If you offer more than one, I think the choices should include one dialog piece ( of no less than ten seconds, and no more than twenty.) I would like to see one extreem action chioce, or somthing that requires the character to display thinking, and/ or personality.
And the last piece I would recomend a change of emotion, in 100 frames or less, simply give the subject like ‘lost somthing important’ or ‘pie in face’, and require a frame counter, 100 frames or less.
I think 30 days is ample time to animate and enter the contest.
Vote:
Trazza
SirRon
subdivmaniac
Nice job people.
Cheers,
Jon
OK my vote is
SirRon
Jpencilworks
Subdivmaniac
Nice work guys. Looking forward to next comp.
Trav
Hi,…
This is my vote :
SirRon
Trazza
Jpencilworks
Great job people!
It’s nice to know you all
Regards,
Henry
Hi everyone, great work to everyone that participated.
Vote:
Trazza
SirRon
jpencilworks
Announcement:
The next challenge will also have two animations to choose from. I will choose a topic and an audio clip, and there will be a vote for the animation without the audio. You only have to animate one or the other but you can do both if you feel up to it.
SirRon and I are the unofficial moderators for the animation acting challenges. We are trying to get official competition status so until then we will have to do without the luxury of stickies. As SirRon said we greatly appreciate your comments on how to improve the competition.
If anyone would like to help with the challenges send Me or SirRon an email.
jpencilworks- I like your idea of only having three choices to choose from. I will use this for the next challenge. The next audio clip will be anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds. Remember your animation can be as long as you want, it does not have to be the length of the audio. I will keep your idea in mind about animating to a length of time like 100 frames. Is this something found in the games industry?
here’s my vote
Trazza
Subdivmaniac
SirRon
great work guys!
cant wait for the next challenge
My vote would be
Trazza
SirRon
Mandeep
That was a fun contest! Good job to everyone who made it through.
LGM
Vote:
1st place: Mandeep
2nd place: Tie b/w Trazza and Jpencilworks.
About list of new topics:
I feel that there really should be only 1 topic- only 1 body motion clip or only 1 sound clip.
From the view point of a prospective competitor animating on only 1 topic will allow me to compare my work with others and see whether I’ve gone wrong/ what I could’ve done better. In that way everyone gets better.
From the viewpoint of a non-competetive voter -again its easier to compare everyones work and try and find out whats making the good animation look good. That way we kind of have an objective measurement system.
I’ll vote for any one of these topics to be picked up for the next challenge:
*Martial arts
*gymnastics
*classic lift
*a moving walk, with a twist (i.e. not a cycle)
*Perform an athletic event
*‘Back to basics’ (Animation Mentor like bouncing ball assignments, but must show at least 3 animations for the duration of the challenge)
my votes are drum roll
Trazza
SirRon
jpencilworks
and for the topic drum roll
*live grenade toss (ball bieng passed) sounds like a laugh
*addiction temptation sounds fun too
*Change of emotion
Amit_S: I agree with what you are saying. Although the main reason we have two animation choices for the challenge is to allow more users to join in. Whats nice about animating to a non-audio topic is the freedom to not follow a path, and to animate in any direction you choose. And an audio topic is good because it gives you the chance to animate a main character that you would get working for a studio. Ideally there will be more than one entry in both topics, so you will be able to learn from someone who animated the same topic as you. If no one else animated the same topic as you be sure to ask many questions about your work (everyone likes to give c&c ).
Matt
And the WINNER is…
Trazza
Congrats Trazza, you won our first challenge with an audio clip.
:applause:
Aaah sweet. Thanks guys. That was good fun. There seems to be a bit more interest building in this one as well which is awesome. Looking forward to seeing what the next clip is and getting into it when i have a chance.
Thanks again.
Trav
yeah well done Trazza!
It would be great to see this ‘session’ grow, as what with the 10 sec club now somewhat defunct…I need to get my fix of animation challenges from somewhere!
Hurry up with the next challenge and let keep this ball rolling
Nice job Trazza!
Your work is inspiring bro, Looking forward to seeing more of it.
Congrats man.
Jon