Edit 12/26: Collab went live yesterday! Thanks to all who entered, JackFly for the stickfigures, and Stix for managing the entire thing. A more proper post will be written in the upcoming week with the five best entries and their prizes.
Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLUICdFgt1w
Edit 12/21: Entries are closed. The collab will be launched soon, and winners announced soon after!
So it only took seven years, but we’re going to have our first ever official Stick Nodes community collab, and it’s Christmas-themed.
It’s being managed by StixFigurez, who has hosted a good number of successful SN collabs this past year, but the finished product will be hosted on my channel.
See the below video for the instructions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__gj38IlJ-U)
The Plot
Christmas Eve night, an otherwise normal night at RalphCo™ finds Ralph and Sean doing what they do every night – scheming ways in which to take over the world with Stick Nodes. Well, Ralph does the scheming…Sean more-so wonders why he’s not at home watching TV.
The night is interrupted by a security breach. The ever-patient and conniving Demonbot has finally launched his plan into action to utilize the RalphCo™ Missile Defense System® in order to take out the fast-approaching Santa Claus flying overhead.
Knowing this would be awful publicity for Stick Nodes, Ralph and Sean frantically attempt to break into the control room where Demonbot has barricaded himself. As he prepares the lock-on sequence for the approaching Fat Man, Demonbot deploys hundreds of his minions into RalphCo™ to cause chaos and buy time…
Prizes
The prizes this year will be actual physical items, and the first-ever SN merch. Want to be beat up and ridiculed in the streets? Boy do I have some accessories for you to wear! In traditional blue/black/white Stick Nodes colors comes an embroidered hat and scarf combo:
The scarves are still in production, but I hope for them to arrive by the end of the contest (the collab will premiere on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and the “winners” (best entries judged by me and a few others) will win the prizes).
I’m not sure how international shipping will be handled, and it may not be financially feasible, so I can’t yet say if I will be able to ship to anywhere outside North America right now. We’ll cross this bridge when/if we come to it.
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans here…now everyone get to animating for Christmas.
shouts out to X-Ray for making the clean-ass chibi art for the scarf
it came out great
and shouts out to Jack for making the background and Demonbot for the collab
and x2 shouts out to arcionek for the hot choccy idea for the scarf
also first
That demon bot is bad ass
Where’s my credit for the default choco on scarf idea 😔
ngl you did come up with that, else it would have just been a logo
added that
Very nice
thanks kanye
for international shipping, try to hire some deliveries
you’re hired
Less go
Time to get rid of the rust on my animating skill
i’ll only let you win if you post a pic wearing the merch
This looks fun, too bad I can’t animate rn..
Impersonator, eh?
Interesting.
Oh for a sec I thought you couldn’t animate and was the sad
Your animation is dope it’s be cool to see you in this collab
It’s just me, Teo, Flame
How do i get in a collab
a collab with tweening and 10 fps, its like it was literally made for me and Various Pond
thats the scientifically proven best fps/tweening combo
omg is that me
also heyo dudes yes im managing the collab lol, dm me for any questions related to the collab :D! (plz dont bug ralph lmaOO)
Since ur here
Jack suggested a idea, the animations in the back look fine with no tween and FPS so letting people use other ones could add more style but it is up to you ofc
Also, weird problem with the link…it looks all pixally when I open it
Sorry for posting so many replies but, I figured out the pixal problem
lol ur fine, ty for letting me know ^^
it supposed to look like that, its the aesthetic me thinks. and if not then its oh well what everyone is gonna work with, it at least looks unique 😀
Tad confused, can you rephrase that?
Are you saying that the pixally is meant to be there?
when you check “Cache Movieclip” on (graphic/single-frame) movieclips, it turns it into a picture, basically
this reduces lag massively
when you export, it will be normal/crispy
I think it is something about the movieclips weight, or maybe it was intentional from Ralph so it doesn’t lag when using it, either way when you export it you’ll get the right resolution so its not a problem
Ah I see, that makes sense
It’s cached movieclip
ofc ofc ill be sure to let people know this then ^^
Neat
Know what exactly;?
Sorry, the way ralph has this activity thing formatted is confusing me in tryna find out what you replied to
1. ill let people know they can use higher fps and no tween
2. the exported project comes out not pixelated lol, didnt realize this until i saw my own entry in the video
3. yes the format is weird lol
Ah, alright
Thanks for answering questions and stuff!
And letting us do the FPS thing
ofc, this collab is gonna be epik :D! happy animating ^-^!
sry
Eyyy
How many winners are going to be selected?
5 because that’s how many hats/scarves i have lol
Yes
@ralph this is very Very important
do we still get money
the whole club looking at her
Badge too
instead of getting a badge on the site it just gets instantly sent to your address irl
i should do that
was thinking of adding some stickers for shits and giggles
no money tho
cost of shipping alone is going to butt[redacted] me
do u still need a judge
i’m probably not entering because god forbid i hate tweening its literally rocket science and quantum physics
if im not entering might as well ruin other people’s lives in another way
You can use no tween and any FPS
The rules changed