🎅 Merry Christmas! 🎅

As December is now upon us, so is the #Stickmas2023! Hope everyone’s in some festive mood this year, as it’s time to put on those silly little red hats and um…WATCH YOUTUBE SHORTS! (Great segue there, arc.)

Week 1 Roundup

Shorts Winners

The first week comes to an end, we’ve gotten a whooping 8 shorts contesting on the first week. That’s nine times more than we expected!

• Presence – A short (pun intended), but simple holiday spirited portal abduction.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNQ–WFe9Q4
• GODEATER – Did a favor for all the retail workers out there.
  https://youtu.be/3r-5-zA7D5c?si=GkQA77wAyig9vNrI
• Ky6x4 – Should be Flash considering how fast the entry got made. As a bonus, it also came with a stickfigure submission!
  https://youtu.be/JDpnKDmqUJ4?si=t6C62gHisosKhb0X
• MAD MDP – I’m not sure what cauliflower fever induced dream caused this, but I’m sure terrified. Congratulations?
  https://youtu.be/RpsYJCBz8zo?si=IGtGwWzFBG_6kv1z
• GX ANIMATIONS – Been lied to into thinking this was a short and wasn’t fully convinced on the “Christmas” part, until Santa’s aerial bombing happened.
  https://youtu.be/LyaG3kKIGh8?si=36InydLaK5fCicwb

Miscellaneous Highlights

Lucky (@luckyanims)	Infraedgrief (@infiniteguess)	kurshkovv (@stahlhelmanims)

Honestly, for a first week I’m pretty happy with the results, as my goal was to give spotlight to smaller creators. Maybe we will see more of them in the future – or dare I say, next week? One thing for sure though is, things are gonna get much wilder from here on out. Another week to work on a project can make a huge difference, so I’m excited to see what everyone’s cooking. Although please remember to export it as shorts! While some of the entries didn’t follow that, I allowed it as freebies. As it’s first time we’re doing something like this. From this point onward though – I’ll be much stricter!

Rock, Paper, Krampus!

Although the delay was unexpected (apologies!), start checking up on /activity/, as a new minigame is here! How many times can you win Rock, Paper, Scissors in a row?

Whooping 50$ to the winner. So get to it!

Week 2 Roundup

Shorts Winners

Second Week results have arrived, and with it more creative entries!

• GzFairyAnimations – Absolutely adorable character designs, can’t wait for part two!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZMjGT3_z28
• OzzYWoozY – The stupid stretched banana actually made me laugh.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LAu5fwhkW8
• Fede sticknodes – Merry Chrysler to you too.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inBRUEAR_QA

Miscellaneous Highlights

FFEJ JP (@ffej-jp)	Anim Patchen Ent. (@animpatchenpictures)

Although I appreciate everyone else being considerate and making the review process easy for me… Remember you can only win when you try. Go animate, punching a mall santa or something – That’d be a start. Please?

Week 3 Roundup

Shorts Animation Winners

It’s been a good week, although might ditch “shorts only” since y’all failing at that 💀

• Sherlock.Is.Very.Tired – That clap was self recorded, wasn’t it?
  https://twitter.com/bros_pencil/status/1736099688774791631
• GzFairyAnimations – Back to back two weeks in the event, with another lovely minute-long short.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBQhFpePJkY
• Deeote E – How could it not be Christmas, without one over the top snowball fight animation?…
  https://twitter.com/E_Deeote/status/1735844787482132848
• Dant – …Followed by a massacre by a baseball bat. We’re truly in Holiday spirit this week!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkuBYhdduPw
• SpideyANIMATIONS_YT – Sans died, there was a live bomb inside that present.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG3DdzE-Jbw

Miscellaneous Highlights

Mandona (@Man_dona)	TheCraftsManGuy (@thecraftsmanguy)	FFEJ JP (@ffej-jp)

Overall… I’m pleasantly suprised by people that are starting to come out with things they’ve been week working hard on for the past month. Impressive stuff really! But it’s soon time to wrap this whole party up,  with one last week. Buckle up fellas, since I can’t predict how this event is going to end.

Week 4 Roundup

Animation Winners

The last round of results are here! Ya’ll went hard with the entries for the finale.

• Permadeath Studios – Perma doing a solid job on every event as always!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyQTgoszjv4
• Hillbilly Snake – Didn’t expect a Buff Santa, but I’m for sure not going to try to catch him in my sleep from now on.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPNpQH0IP7E
• ALL MOTIONS – Dog. It made it here cause there’s a dog.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahWZBlTT5k
• ARSG – Decently wholesome animation, reminded me of my early works.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lW7B_pozSM
• Cheese Biscuit Animations – Ever wanted to see a dodo bird kill someone with a snowball?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnKFGXvz3eE

Miscellaneous Highlights

Robert-adam (@robkotykokso)	Fedora (@nscmemeber)	NARR (@27jfletchergmail-com)

Event Addendum

For an experimental event, I’m quite happy with how it ended up turning out. Sure, we didn’t go crazy with promoting it like the other collabs, but it’s partially due to see, how well the event would end up by just the word of mouth. What do you guys think of the more lenient, and week-based christmas format? Opinions would be greatly appreciated, as doing it again in the future is up in the air for debate.

Ralph is preparing to make an additional year summary post at the beginning of January, so keep an eye out for it, maybe with some hints at upcoming updates? *cough* 4.2.0 *cough*

Besides that, among crazy shopping-sprees and loud family gatherings – I hope you guys had time to relax this season and got to enjoy it. I’d like to sincerely wish everyone Merry Christmas, and a promising New Year. See you all later!