Originally posted by Wegg
[B]Sounds great.So far the ones people are liking are:
World Leader Caricatures.
Story Book Characters.
We have to have more to pick from than that. . .
IDEAS PEOPLE! [/B]
How about ‘Legendary Heroes and Villains’?
Pick a classic (anything over 100 years old) hero or villain and create them. We could see new takes on characters like Thor, Hercules, Loki, Merlin, Odin, Sherlock Holmes … but no new super-hero stuff.
Originally posted by Wegg
[B]Sounds great.So far the ones people are liking are:
World Leader Caricatures.
Story Book Characters.
We have to have more to pick from than that. . .
IDEAS PEOPLE! [/B]
Well, uh… we could do a caricature of the next celebrity who dies. Oh, I’m bad! 
Jim
Many of us are just too busy working on Personal (or Commercial) projects, so we don’t have time to work on projects specially for Contest.
So why do we need Subject at all?
Why don’t we just submit models and animations that we are working on (doesn’t matter on what Topic) into »Finished Work« folder and at the end of each month we will vote for the best Still Image and the best Animation of the month.
How about famous movie monsters?
Godzilla, King Kong, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein,
Or, How about Creatures/beings from the D&D Monster Manual?
–Like Loth! Queen of the Demon web pits… or a Pit Fiend
Frazetta’s Death Dealer… or Conan the barbarian…
Or A:M versions of well known CG characters like Mike and Sully from Monsters, Inc. or Shrek!
Or 3D versions of old cartoon characters
The Smurfs!
or newer ones like Pinky and the Brain! Narf!
:buttrock:
How about this (for an animation contest): Create a 10-20sec “music video” based on a short section from a given song. You get to choose the section, but not the song. We could vote on the song.
How about self portraits (caricatured or 3d cartoon), it would be a funny way to know us and to make a great family photo.
Here are a few ideas with no originality 
I like the Super Hero idea, but characters that we make up.
Orcs. There’s lots of room for variations of orcs, and lot’s of extra things can be added, ex. armor, weapons.
Animal characters. Cartoony type animals with the big eyes and human like features.
Vehicle characters. Ala “Cars” Pixar’s next film after Incredibles. I think it’s about cars that talk and have eyes and stuff. ( i don’t really like this idea)
Old West/Sci Fi combo. Alien Cowboys to Robot Indians. Make sense?
Dogs/ 50’s Mob combo Dog mobsters. Ala boids of a feather, but using dogs.
warriors/ swords. A cool character. Skilled in the art of swordsmenship
:shrug:
George
Hey, Grgeon
I have posted a cartoony type animal character with big eyes and human like features here:
I like all that kind of stuff. There is a lot of room for expression and variety.
Like the text of the poll says, I’d love to participate in an animation contest. Whether or not I actually do remains to be seen. 
I’ll support it as much as I am able.
That should be something that we should settle on too eh? A different set of skills. For instance I’ve yet to do any animating in A:M at all. But, perhaps a challenge may force me to do so. Or keep me out. hehe Just a thought.
Oh and I would vote to stay away from any challenge that’s already been done elsewhere in the forums. Ya know, like the LOTR stuff and so on.
How about we make up an 8th dwarf for Snow White to pal around with. We choose our own characters quirky personality, like Gassy, Burpy or Dorky.
I’m trying to think of simple characters that we can start the contest with so we’re not overwhelmed on the first go round.
Jim
Yea I like that one too.
The 8th Dwarf.
I also like old monsters. King Kong etc. Althought I’m not so sure there are enough to chose from.
I kinda figured we would need at least thirty people interested in participating to make it worth our while. . .
We got 26. . .
:hmm:
yeah the 8th dwarf sounds really cool! so would that mean the contest would have 30 different versions of the “8th dwarf”? i hope we find 4 more people!
-kungfud0rk
8th dwarf sounds great! Definitely agree on keeping it simple for the first one. Are we looking at a 30 day timeframe?
Originally posted by Wegg
[B]YI kinda figured we would need at least thirty people interested in participating to make it worth our while. . .We got 26. . .
:hmm: [/B]
Wegg,
Just curious, why 30? To account for those who dropout?
Jim
Yea.
Even at 30 we’d be pretty lucky to get more than 5 people to actually finish and submit something.
Be nice if we could find a marter to post to the AM list. 
Another question, what time frame are we thinking, a month? A week? Two weeks?
It might be cool to have the modeling contest first and then the winner’s model gets animated in the animation contest by all the animators. That way their animation stands on it’s own if they all use the same model. (I say “they” because I’m not an animator.)
Jim
How about
B-list superheroes and villans that never made it. (think cast rejects from ‘the tick’)
or,
a bit more general ‘80s cartoon character’ that gives access to tranformers, robotech, thundercats,gi-joe, he-man etc… (hmmm thundercats)
Are we talking about characters fully rigged and textured or just modeled, we should probably decided before starting.
Also any kind of timeframe is a big factor if I’ll be able to participate and finish…
sounds like fun tho. :buttrock:
-Drakk
How much time do you think you will need?
A whole month is a long time. In production you are usually only taking one or two days to model something and another for the textures.
If your taking over a month than. . . bloody hell.