439 Forum Posts by "NATA"
30 Entries Total.
One judge received.
The Novice Round is CLOSED!
Any entries received from here out will suffer a late penalty.
10 Minutes.
25 Entries. Waiting on 7 more.
21 Entries!
Waiting on 11 more...
3.25 Hours Remain.
We have 18 entries, meaning we're still waiting on 14 others to submit. Will we have some free passes this round? We will see!
16 Entries Received, that puts us at half of our entrants.
9.5 Hours Remain!
7 Out of 32 Entries Received.
http://www.newgrounds.com/movies/browse/tag/nata2012novice/
Best of luck in the final 2.5 days!
At 6/2/12 11:52 PM, Emrox wrote: On that note, here's the last six hours of my life in a nutshell:
If you look to your left you will see the all famous Tween City, founded by Emrox in 2012.
Just under 5 days remain!
6 Days left, everyone.
6 Days.
At 5/30/12 12:48 AM, ThorClodofBlunders wrote: and here are 2 posts!
These are excellent, thanks Thor!
At 5/29/12 07:51 AM, Cenaf wrote: sadly i will hape drop out. Just today got news that i have to be away from town from 4 June to 4th July. Sucks.
It would be nice if you enter at least what you had completed so far.
At 5/29/12 02:45 PM, Emrox wrote: Prior to the tournament beginning, you mentioned a possibility of part of the bracket being switched to groups of four as opposed to the usual head-to-head. Is there any chance of this still happening? 'Cause I would definitely support it.
It's too late to implement this now, but it's entirely possible for next year's tournament.
Just under 10 days remaining...!!
Thor, Clod of Blunders occasionally drops by to offer helpful feedback and critiques for NATA contestants. In fact, we consider him the official NATA Critic.
He has written up this article, "Knowing Your ABCs" especially for NATA contestants who made it in!
Read it Here! --> http://munchymedia.com/nataguide/323/
At 5/15/12 09:57 PM, McBinkles wrote: thanks!
just curious, will we get to see our scores in the 5 categories at the end of this round? or just the overall score?
Oh yes, there will be full detailed scoring for every round here-on-out. For an example, look here at the bottom of the page here: http://www.munchymedia.com/Contests/TOFA11/round2.html
At 5/15/12 03:48 PM, DannX3anim8ion wrote: Oh yeah, does anyone know when/where we see our scores?
Based on the point system listed in the winner's listing here:
The judges selected their top 16 entries in order from best to worst, and entries were scored on an inverted point system based on placement in a judge's list. A few judges entered 18, and so the base number of 18 was used for scoring. For example, an entry in the #1 spot of a list received 18 points, while #2 is 17 points, #3 is 16, and so on until #18 is 1 point. Points were accumulated from all judges and sorted to create the list above, which is ordered from most points received to least.
68 Pahgawk
62 VieRickend
59 Coughing-dog
56 Fungasm
53 Test-object
52 EmRox
44 JarrodStorm
44 BPremo
35 LazyModeComics
31 JagonDudo
30 digsBot
26 terabiter
23 DuDuL
23 Cenaf
22 slackman
21 CatFat
18 Hikarian
17 Lankie
16 Neeko
16 McBinkles
15 LumpyPenguin
14 Bananas
11 JoHobo
10 MihaP
10 ExtremeFudgeMaster
09 Sandwich-eater
06 TeamTomago
06 Catoblepas
06 BobyB64
04 DannX3
03 koit
01 francisyf
At 5/14/12 03:21 PM, JerrodStorm wrote: Just out of curiosity, do you guys come up with the themes for each round before the start of the tournament, or do you just think it up the day before the start of each round?
I suppose this would be a good opportunity to point out that I had an interview about NATA recently: http://theinterviewer.newgrounds.com/news/post/714358 - for all your burning questions :)
In this case, I literally decided on the theme about a half hour before the Novice Round was posted. I'm usually a lot better about that.
At 5/14/12 01:49 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 5/14/12 01:03 PM, Goat-Man wrote: Isn't this still just Round 1, following the Open Round?Dammit probably.
Yeah I wasn't going to point it out, but yeah. Well technically it's the second round of the contest, but first round of the bracketed tournament segment, while technically named the Novice Round.
So any name works. Best of luck to all who made it in!
Congratulations to the 32 contestants who have made it into the first NewGrounds Annual Tournament of Animation!
* NATA Website
* Novice Round Page
From here on out, you will be facing an opponent who you must defeat by creating a superior animation in order to move on in the brackets. Welcome to...
*** The Novice Round ***
The Theme for the Novice Round is...
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The Elephant in the Room
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*** Rules ***
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* You have until 11:59:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time, on June 7th to complete your submissions. No submissions will be accepted after the deadline without penalty.
* Entries must fit the theme above to both level the playing field and ensure that entries were not previously created.
* The animation must be no shorter than 1 Minute and no longer than 10 Minutes.
* The animation must be submitted on NewGrounds, in flash format or other acceptable format viewable on NewGrounds.
* Excess nudity, profanity, and other things of profane nature are not allowed. (It cannot have a "Mature" rating.)
* Absolutely NO copyright material is allowed without permission. If you use copyrighted music or other material in your animation, you MUST get the permission of the original creator of that material.
* If you would like to parody, then use similar names instead of the real names - ie. "Smears" instead of "Sears". No copyrighted material whatsoever.
* The Audio portal is a great source for music, just be sure to get permission to use it for this contest!
* Any entry in violation of these rules will be disqualified.
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*** Matchups ***
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* Pahgawk vs Hikarian
* VieRickend vs. Lankie
* Coughing-dog vs. Neeko
* Fungasm vs. McBinkles
* Test-object vs. LumpyPenguin
* EmRox vs. BananasFoster
* JerrodStorm vs. JoHobo2
* BPremo vs. MihaP
* LazyModeComics vs. ExtremeFudgeMaster
* JagonDudo vs. sandwhich-eater
* digsBot vs. TeamTamago
* terabiter vs. Catoblepas
* DuDuL vs. BobyB64
* Cenaf vs. DannX3
* slackman vs. Koit
* CatFat vs. francisyfl
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*** Judging ***
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Entries will be judged by the following judges:
* Tom Fulp
* Elliot Cowan
* Dave Bruno
* NitWitt
* SymphyBunny
Judging will be done by each judge across five categories with 4 possible points in each: Artwork/Style, Animation, Originality, Structure, and Entertainment. If you're interested in seeing more advice and examples on these categories, visit http://nataguide.munchymedia.com/
Each judge will therefore have a total possible 20 points for a single entry, adding up to 100 possible points from all five judges on a single entry. The entry will a higher number of points among a matchup will win and move on to the following round.
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*** Submissions ***
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* Entries must be uploaded via the NewGrounds Flash Portal.
* Entries must be tagged with "nata2012novice" to distinguish them from other rounds and years.
* Entries must be submitted before the deadline. (See above)
* Be sure to post a link to your entry in this topic, to be sure your entry does not get lost.
* Entries will otherwise be found by searching "nata2012novice" on NewGrounds, showing all entries with that tag.
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*** Late Penalties ***
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Late penalties look like this for submissions after the deadline:
0 - 29 minutes: - 5 total points
30 - 59 minutes: - 10 total points
1 - 2 hours: - 15 total points
2 - 3 hours: - 20 total points
3 - 4 hours: - 30 total points
4 - 5 hours: - 40 total points
5+ hours: Disqualified
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*** Current Prize ***
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The entrants with superior scores in each matchup will move on to the Intermediate Round brackets and receive a $25 prize for making it in. All prizes will be awarded in October, AFTER the competition ends.
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*** Fine Print ***
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* By submitting an entry to NATA 2012, you agree to allow NATA and its organizers to use your material to promote the contest and use it for possible calendars and other merchandise.
* All entrants must have a paypal or the ability to receive a check in the mail in order to claim their prizes.
* The final Champion of Flash Artists at the completion of the contest must create an illustrated image of themselves interacting with planet Earth, as is NATA tradition to document their victory with such an image on the NATA website.
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Good Luck!!
Man, I'm sure having an elephant of a time getting this new thread written up.
At 5/13/12 08:25 PM, sandwich-eater wrote: The match-ups are like: #1 vs #17, 2 vs 18, 3 vs 19 etc so that the tops are likely to get through, but everyone still has a fighting chance.
Precisely. At first I was setting it up as #1 vs #32, #2 vs #31, but that would have been ridiculously unbalanced.
New thread up in 30 minutes or less.
I thought I would have time to post the round early, but it's not looking that way at this point. Expect it around midnight Eastern Time!
It's also worth mentioning that the Match-Ups have been posted!
http://nata.munchymedia.com/
At 5/13/12 06:55 PM, JoHobo2 wrote:The Novice Round is supposed to begin in 6 hours, but I'm thinking of starting it early, in about an hour or two. What do you all think?yes please.
Also would you be able to tell me how far my brother (monkeyman12344) was from qualifying?
As previously stated, each judge picked only their top 16 (or 18) favorites to decide qualifiers. The only two entrants that were listed but didn't make the top 32 were Krus Justice and TribeCollective. It's impossible to say "how close" any other entrants were to making it, since the cutoff was 16-18 entries for judges to select.
Judging for the following rounds will be strictly score based, and it will be much easier to deduce who stands where.
At 5/13/12 06:36 PM, francisyfl wrote: Sounds good. And XD could you fix my name on the list, sorry.
Your name will be correct in every iteration except that post announcing the winners. NG Forums don't allow editing.
At 5/13/12 05:38 PM, francisyfl wrote: i think i was the worst ._. depressing
There were still 12 people below you who didn't get into the brackets at all, so no yours was not the worst by any means :)
At 5/13/12 05:42 PM, Cenaf wrote: is there going to be some critique\feedback on the submisions from the judges? just wondering, would be usefull to know where to focus improving.
Because of the high volume of entries in the open round, no. Judges are encouraged to write comments for the next few rounds, and really pushed to do so for the final couple rounds.
At 5/13/12 05:28 PM, Lankie wrote: DANG IT! Well, I guess I'll just have to dress like the 11th Doctor and use my time portal to travel back and save myself the embarrassment of the whole ord-waaaait a minute!
this seems awfully familiar...
People assume that Animation is a strict progression of shape to tween, but actually from a nonlinear non-subjective
viewpoint it's more like a big ball of... arts-y wartsy, move-y wove-y... stuff.
The Novice Round is supposed to begin in 6 hours, but I'm thinking of starting it early, in about an hour or two. What do you all think?
At 5/13/12 05:07 PM, Lankie wrote: I...bu...wu...a...
I...actually got....through?
*explodes*
No, actually this in an alternate timeline. In the far off space year of 1999 from which you're actually from, you didn't get through. In fact, you got like... all 0s in every criteria.
In other news, I misspelled JerrodStorm as JarrodStorm. NG BBS doesn't allow post editing, so this is the correction. It's JerrodStorm.
Congratulations to the 32 who have successfully made it into the Novice Round, which will begin later tonight!!
Pahgawk
VieRickend
Coughing-dog
Fungasm
Test-object
EmRox
JarrodStorm
BPremo
LazyModeComics
JagonDudo
digsBot
terabiter
DuDuL
Cenaf
slackman
CatFat
Hikarian
Lankie
Neeko
McBinkles
LumpyPenguin
BananasFoster
JoHobo
MihaP
ExtremeFudgeMaster
Sandwich-eater
TeamTomago
Catoblepas
BobyB64
DannX3
koit
francisyf
The judges selected their top 16 entries in order from best to worst, and entries were scored on an inverted point system based on placement in a judge's list. A few judges entered 18, and so the base number of 18 was used for scoring. For example, an entry in the #1 spot of a list received 18 points, while #2 is 17 points, #3 is 16, and so on until #18 is 1 point. Points were accumulated from all judges and sorted to create the list above, which is ordered from most points received to least.
You will each be awarded $15 at the end of the contest for getting in! Best of luck in the Novice Round! Brackets and match ups will be announced at that time.
