With about 30 entries and many soon-to-be-crushed dreams, the first annual Stick Nodes #Christmas2020 animation contest has concluded! Thank you to all who entered, it was actually a very pleasant little contests and I everyone did very well following instructions, mostly! But alright, let’s see who won – in no particular order.
The Winners ($100 each, and the #Christmas2020 Winner badge)
VariousPond – Visually stunning, and not actually sure if Stick Nodes. We may have to expose him.
Saibroz Animation – Great character designs, and a lot of action packed into a quick, fun video.
Squi – Captured the warmness of Christmas with a unique style and solid voice acting, with humor!
Runners-Up ($50 each)
Just choosing three winners was tough, even choosing seven wasn’t too much easier, but I felt a few more entries deserved some reward.
Aaron Austin – Quick little “music video” but legitimately funny.
Sm1le_Guy – My guy actually broke out his pipes and sang for us. Very funny.
Neon Anims – Excellent evil-snowman vs Santa (kinda) animation, great character structures as well.
JackFly Studios – Quality enough for television, with top notch voice acting. But went way over the 2-minute max time.
Honorable Mentions
I was almost going to award everyone else who entered $10 but then I regained my senses after a moment of weakness from to too much vodka. So here are some worthy shout outs!
- Ray_Bamz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9oaGyaxjzA)
Lol @ Santa wife theft. - thatguy-2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLm8xTdy7k)
Enjoyable quick skit with great visuals, needed more Christmassness tho. - dezway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kre2fT9Up9A)
Vigilante Santa is a great concept, and custom music! Wish it had more content however. - Narrowdale Media (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xATBX9nIoc)
Interesting “horror” Christmas take, wish it had more of a payoff before the relatively charming ending. - Maawoz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k6hIJoPY0g)
Obligatory Sprite Cranberry entry. - TastyLemon 16 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBk5ROQPx7E)
Happy lil SN-users holiday get together. Paced a bit slow and wish it had more content but charming nonetheless. - VeryStrawberry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LqPyH63s4)
Another enjoyable SN-users Christmas part, too long to be considered but has good vibes. - Axton Pollard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-TUSg3c4JM)
Probably the weirdest “preparing for Christmas” animation you’ll see.
Conclusion
And that’s that. Thanks again to everyone who participated, it was fun! I will iron out details in any future competitions like this. Aka strict deadline and make time limits absolutely clear. Also I may do more of a tier-system of some sort to allow those who aren’t necessarily animation savants to get some spotlight.
A quick note, I do not have the badge ready yet due to the upcoming site redesign. So @ the winners, you will have your shiny new badge very soon. And maybe a little something for Jack as well…as his entry truly was amazing. To be fair to all entries however, while a “little” play is allowed, the runtime was far over the 2-minute maximum.
(Shouts out to Tastylemon for designing the #Christmas2020 Winner badge!)
I will be contacting the winners probs tomorrow to iron out details on how to receive my money
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hey @samted you can finally shut up now,no protest at all
Sometimes irony hits hard haha
Better get my own you tried badge
If you get a “you tried” badge i will eat my cat
read the last paragraph and fire up the grill
I was gonna do it anyways
livestream it
Too late
seriously tho, that animation was one of the best SN vids I’ve seen, the voice acting (and even lip syncing) put it over the edge
the length tho
Jackfly – Suffering from Success
Ayyyyyy,at least I got honorable mention. 😀
I see Jack got runner up though despite even longer than mine,but I’m assuming that’s because of the quality of it,still if you were that strict on meh about it, should’ve applied to everyone,but ehhhhhhhh
lol i know, but that’s why its just runner-up and not considered an actual winner
i know, same thing really
but have you seen his entry…
im not saying you didn’t put work into yours, not at all, but his is on a level really, i haven’t seen in SN before let alone Flash-level stuff
it’d be a crime to not give him some recognition for it
I understand,but it is still *technical* bias. XD
I’ll try even harder hopefully for next year’s. :3
I deserve financial compensation for this outrage
lol
im actually sorry :/
everyone else bribed me so my hands were tied
Thank you everybody for the support, all the participants for joining, and of course how can we forget Ralph for hosting this fantastic competition. You will see all the stickfigures used in the video on this website soon. This means you will get your hands on THIS Santa and animate him however you want.
You earned it my dude. Good work
Thanks lad
can confirm, i see all the thumbnails and they’re awesome
too bad its not christmas-time anymore but next year your figures + gigan’s probs gonna get abused hard
Sad. Can we fast forward to Christmas again.
Congrats to the winners and everyone who put in an effort… it was fun doing this!
Bazinga
what even is with your name
you’re disqualified now for bothering me
I honestly had that for so Long that I forgot that it still said that considering your the first person to actually notice it