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.