First of all, good night. I’m a “new” brazilian user named Nox. Before anything, i would like to be clear about things thing. I only know the basic of the english so my words might be misspelled or with gramatical errors and my laptop have some keys with problems. Also, this isn’t an attack to the participants of the collab, but, a critic to the collab that didn’t followed it’s own rules. (“new” because i entered the comunity recently but i used the stick nodes for years)

I tried to join the collab already not beliving my bad animation would enter. That’s why i already assure you that what i am about to comlain have nothing to do with my denial but with a thing that was unfair on that collab. The time of each entry.

The rule says “Entries are encouraged to only be between 15 to 60 seconds long. You can go past this if you want, but you need a good reason to do so.” I beg your pardon but what were the good reasons most animators had? Because what i could see was “because i want to make it big.” I literally saw an animation of 6 MINUTES! And i also don’t want to be that guy and i don’t know the comunity too well… But i only saw famous people there! Ralph, if this hyphotesis is right, “since it’s the 10th aniversary of stick nodes it would be better have only the pros.” If you wanted to have only the pros, could you at least state it clearly on the rules? (I don’t know if what i said was just my thought or the reality… but you posted it on youtube so it may be wrong… and i would yet have a right to question it!)

I don’t want to be a mind reader but you probably are thinking i’m just upset because my entry was refused… And yes, i am. bBut i brushed it off because the reason i almost wrote a book was that something IS off. Again, i’m not attacking no one. the stick nodes community is a good one and i never saw a fight ocuring between users and i don’t want to be the one who will sart it. I’m also not saying that the animations didn’t deserved the price, quite the opposite, they deserve more! What a show, pals. But the problem is when they don’t follow a crucial rule and yet got accepted! I think all of them should follow the example of the first one… BECAUSE IT FOLLOWED THE RULES! (Also, congrats Darkboy Animation, it’s the one of the few i foun ice and wer in rules. [if your username is not Darkboy, please don’t blame… i writed what were on the document]

This is my essay about how much confused, sad, upset and mad i got at the collab don’t following the own rules. I’m not here to be annoying or anything but… I can’t stand it. Until we met.

(I literally just copied and pasted my “Essay” from the collab’s page-)