439 Forum Posts by "NATA"
At 7/5/11 07:34 PM, Goat-Man wrote:At 7/5/11 01:35 AM, Jomillex wrote: There's a TOFA on albinoblacksheep if anyone wants to join if they dont make it.I thought this was the same competition, just with a new home.
Same name? Still called TOFA? A little bit odd...
Ps. I love the animation introducing the ABS contest. Kepple did a fantastic job on it!
It's really a long story. Short Version: I created the contest and moved it from ABS to NG, but ABS felt it deserved to keep running it. Not sure if there are any intellectual copyright claims that could be made in that kind of situation, but after some negotiations we've decided that the two contests will have different names next year to avoid confusion.
Last year TMST mentioned he would have liked to do animations like that for TOFA 09, but didn't have the time last year.
On that note, 2 Days, 40 Minutes remaining!
-- 15 Days, 21 Hours --
The sketches are looking good so far, everyone! To anyone who missed it, we now have a COLLECTION PAGE for TOFA 2011! Woo!
At 6/16/11 03:27 PM, PinkSkull wrote: So we are not getting any T-Shirts? ):
Oh, I plan on getting T-Shirts for everyone who entered at the end of the contest :)
All Round 1 Reviews are up! Be prepared for heavy reading!
Onward to Round 2!
Over the next 25 days, the 8 winners of the Round 1 Brackets will face off to decide who will move on to Round 3.
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*** Round 2 ***
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The Theme for the Round 2 is...
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*Wrongfully Accused*
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*** Matchups ***
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Matchups and current brackets can be viewed at http://tofa.munchymedia.com/
* Dave Bruno vs. Fungasm
* Sandwich Eater vs. PinkSkull
* someplace else vs. Elfman Rox
* Lazy Mode Comics vs. Mark-er
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*** Rules ***
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* You have until 11:59:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time, on July 7th to complete your submissions. Submissions taken after the deadline are subject to the late penalties listed below.
* 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 30 seconds and no longer than 10 minutes.
* The animation must be in flash format. Other mediums are allowed (but not beneficial to the animator's time constraints), but the final product must be produced in flash and published on NewGrounds.
* Excess nudity, profanity, and other things of profane nature are not allowed. (It should not 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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*** Judging ***
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Entries will be judged by the following judges:
* Tom Fulp
* NitWitt
* Symphybunny
* Zeurel
* Salty Peach
Entries will be scored out of 4 points in 5 categories from each judge, totalling 20 possible points from each
judge. The scorecard being used looks like this: http://tofa.munchymedia.com/scorecard.pn g
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*** Submissions ***
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* Entries must be uploaded via the NewGrounds Flash Portal.
* Entries must be linked in this topic to be submitted.
* Entries must be submitted before the deadline. (See above)
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*** Late Penalties ***
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Late penalties look like this for submissions after the deadline:
0 - 59 minutes: - No Penalty (Due to Round 2 beginning late)
1 - 2 hours: - 5 total points
2 - 3 hours: - 10 total points
3 - 4 hours: - 20 total points
4 - 5 hours: - 30 total points
5+ hours: Disqualified
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*** Current Prize ***
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The current prize pool is set at $1,710 Cash, as well as a Windows copy of Adobe Premiere CS5 and After Effects CS5 (Est. $1800 value). Additional donations can be made using the Donate button on the TOFA Website, and will be accepted up until the final round.
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*** Fine Print ***
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* By submitting an entry to TOFA 2011, you are agreeing to let us show it off in the future as a testament of awesomeness.
* Final sorting of prize money among winner and runner-ups will be determined once donations are no longer being accepted.
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Good Luck!!
I wish there was an edit button on the BBS
CORRECTION:
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Due to the late penalty on TurtleCo's entry, their entry has been subtracted 15 points according to the late policy. All pages and scores have been updated. This therefore makes PinkSkull the winner of their matchup. Sorry for any confusion.
The Winners are in!
And the winners of Round 1 are...
** Dave Bruno
** Fungasm
** Sandwich Eater
** TurtleCo
** SomeplaceElse
** Elfman Rox
** Lazy Mode Comics*
** Mark-er
* The match between Lazy Mode Comics and coughing dog was a tie, and the winner is then determined by the highest score in the "Artwork" category. If that is also a tie, the entrant with the highest score in the "Animation" category wins, and so on.
Thanks to all who entered! Congratulations to our winners and best of luck next year to all others.
All information, scores, and updated brackets are now on the TOFA Website and the Round 1 Page.
Reviews will be added to the Round 1 page within the hour. The Round 2 topic will be posted shortly. Extra time will be given due to the round starting late.
Results will be posted very soon. I had to rework all the numbers to compensate for the lack of one judge, and so things are running just a tad bit behind. I will have everything up ASAP.
At 6/12/11 10:05 PM, LazyModeComics wrote: Is there a forum I'm missing with all these reviews? I keep seeing people who are supposedly writing them but I don't see them anywhere. Apparently some were made for the open round but I've yet to see those. Maybe I'm just out of the loop, i honestly don't know.
-Jake
There are lots of reviews to go around. I will post these with the scores on the TOFA website.
The deadline for judging is 1.5 hours from now. If they haven't replied by then, I will post the results using the 4 judges we have.
Round 1 is now Closed!
Entries will be accepted in the following 5 hours with penalties to their final scores according to the rules listed on the first post.
At 6/9/11 07:04 PM, PinkSkull wrote:At 6/9/11 06:52 PM, jagondudo wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/57 1982that...that was beautiful D':
Anyway, when will round 2 be announced?
Round 2 will begin on Monday at 12:00 A.M. Eastern Time
Round 1 Page on the TOFA website is now up! Results will be posted here.
I think the guy getting his brain shot out might of broke the "no mature content" rule.
If there were any disqualifications I would have let the entrant know. There were none this round. Late submissions were accepted as much as 30 minutes late in the open round since this is the first year and people are still getting used to the contest, I cut some slack. (Though 30 minutes can't make too much of a difference in your animation, it allowed for people to finish publishing and uploading.)
The judges were asked to rank their top 10 entries in order of best to worst. #1 on each list received 10 points, #2 received 9 points, and so on. I turns out only 15 animators were listed from all the combined lists. Eddsworld is not judging any longer and Salty Peach came down will an illness and was unable to judge except to nominate the final entrant. Below are the scores from the 3 remaining judges (including one point for the 16th addition).
Dave Bruno: 30
Mark-er: 18
Fungasm: 17
coughing-dog: 17
jagondudo: 14
MC-Booga: 12
Zeedox: 11
LazyModeComics: 10
sandwich-eater: 9
Elman-Rox: 9
TheNooch: 8
Glarryg: 6
TurtleCo: 3
PinkSkull: 1
zRtC: 1
someplaceelese: 1
The Open Round is meant to filter out who will participate in the actual Tournament. In the following rounds, much more critique and in-depth scores will be given to the entrants.
The winners have been decided!!
The top 16 who will be moving into the Tournament brackets will be...
DaveBruno
Mark-er
Fungasm
coughing-dog
JagonDudo
MC-Booga
Zeedox
LazyModeComics
Sandwicheater
Elfman Rox
TheNooch
Glarryg
TurtleCo
PinkSkull
zRtC
someplaceelse
Winners listed in order of ranking in judging.
The Brackets have been posted and the matchups decided. The matchups will be outlined in the Round 1 topic to be posted shortly.
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all who entered! See you all in Round 1...
This would be an excellent time to put any simple flash movie together and enter, and basically be guaranteed to be in the tournament brackets
Please read the post next time :P
The Calendar has been updated. Every remaining round has been extended by a week!
At 5/13/11 12:11 AM, zeedox wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/56 9750
11:59 lol
Your post is 12:11, but it's cool.
If we do not get up to 32 people, then only the top 16 will be selected.
13 Entries, 3 more and we can at least make it a 16-bracket match up.
At 5/12/11 12:04 AM, Fungasm wrote: hey, I need to make sure about something. In my submission, the word "dick" shows up in text. Is that against the mature rating rule?... If it is, could I just write it as D**k ?
I don't wanna get disqualified for something dumb and small like that.
One swear in text is okay and will not disqualify you
The deadline is in US Eastern Time. 23 hours, 20 minutes remaining!
If we get less than 32 entries I will have to seriously modify the brackets and dates.
At 5/11/11 04:12 PM, Drifts wrote: O and really? So my digital times must be wrong for displaying 00.00 lol
Isn't 00:00 just the military time version of 12:00 AM? (midnight)
34 Hours Remaining!
2 Entries received :O
@ Dave - Please wait until the judging for the round is over before posting the entry in other place- In other words, Monday :)
2 Days, 11 Hours!
Hope to see some awesomeness!
At 5/7/11 11:41 AM, ribIREred wrote: I was wondering the same Rox. Thanks for the mention and reminder:)
At 5/7/11 12:02 AM, Elfman-Rox wrote: What about using the dumping grounds to submit our entry? In the occasion that I don't finish my part, I don't want to have an unfinished animation of my account. If use of the dumping grounds is allowed, animators would have a chance to finish at a later date, (perhaps while the judges are judging.)
Yes, the dumping grounds are allowed as long as you post the link in this topic saying it's your entry.
An animatic is ALWAYS better than an empty space or a plot jump. You will likely get a few more points for that.
