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- N A T A - Masters Round! Posted July 8th, 2012 in Animation

Congratulations to the 8 animators who have made it this far!

You will now face another winner of the intermediate round head to head, who you must defeat by creating a superior animation in order to move on to the Semi-Finals!

*** The Masters Round ***

The Theme for the Masters Round is...

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The Butterfly Effect
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*** Rules ***
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* You have until 11:59:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time, on August 2nd 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. test-object
* BPremo vs. DuDul
* coughing-dog vs. JagonDudo
* EmRox vs. SlackMan

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*** Judging ***
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Entries will be judged by the following judges:
* Tom Fulp
* Dave Bruno
* NitWitt
* SymphyBunny

Judging will be done by each judge across five categories with 5 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 25 points for a single entry, adding up to 100 possible points from all four 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 "nata2012masters" 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 "nata2012masters" 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 Master Round and receive a $50 prize in addition to their previous prizes. 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!!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 8th, 2012 in Animation

The Winners are in!!

Congratulations to the following entrants for their victory in the Intermediate Round:

* Pahgawk
* test-object
* BPremo
* DuDul
* coughing-dog
* JagonDudo
* EmRox
* SlackMan

Great job to everyone who participated! There were some really close matchups this time around.

You can see all full scores and comments on the Intermediate page: http://nata.munchymedia.com/intermediate/
The brackets are also updated here: http://nata.munchymedia.com/

The Masters Round will be posted tonight!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 6th, 2012 in Animation

Entries are uploading and judging notifications have been sent out. We received entries from all 16 entrants, so kudos to all of you!!
(For JerrodStorm I used one of the "scenes" from his posted zip file)

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 6th, 2012 in Animation

Tom Fulp has brought it to my attention that the power outage is likely affecting quite a few people, a few animators included.
Stand by for adjustments.

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 6th, 2012 in Animation

Intermediate Round is closed!!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 4th, 2012 in Animation

Oh, and two days remaining!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 4th, 2012 in Animation

At 7/3/12 04:47 PM, McBinkles wrote: did you just photoshop that as soon as you read his comment?

Yes.

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 3rd, 2012 in Animation

At 7/3/12 10:37 AM, Jomillex wrote:

FAST DUMP THE COKE IN THE RIVER AND START THE CAR!

- N A T A - Intermediate Round!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted July 2nd, 2012 in Animation

3 Days, 8 Hours.

Best of luck in the final stretch!!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted June 29th, 2012 in Animation

2 Down, 14 to go!

Less than a week remains.

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted June 28th, 2012 in Animation

1 Week!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted June 25th, 2012 in Animation

At 6/25/12 07:14 PM, Luis wrote: my skype is ih8skype

I've been using it more often and like talking to animators. Good idea. whoever came up with it.

I've created a NATA Chat 2012 chat group with those who have accepted my friend request. Others will be invited as accepted.

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted June 25th, 2012 in Animation

At 6/25/12 08:32 AM, DuDuL wrote: I will be able to make allnighters/dayers this friday+weekend :D so maybe then?

Skype: nitwitt10
Also, 10 days, 10 hours remain...!

Response to: - N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted June 11th, 2012 in Animation

At 6/11/12 03:03 PM, Luwano wrote: How did you decide who is paired against each other? Random? Based on the points of the previous round? Or a combination of both?

It was based on open round scoring. The top 32 were ordered from best to worst and split into two groups, the top 16 scores and the low 16 scores. The first of each group was paired, then the second of each group was paired, and so on. ie. #1 vs. #17, #2 vs. #18, #3 vs. #19, etc. etc. It worked out pretty well, I'd say.
Also, I made sure to rotate these placements around the actual brackets. 1 vs. 17 was placed on the upper left, while 2 vs. 18 was placed in the lower right to be as far as possible from the other high scorers. The next two matches are placed in the lower left and upper right, and then it returns to the upper left with matchup of 5 vs. 21, but still remaining as far as possible from 1 vs. 17 in that corner.

Response to: - N A T A - Novice Round! Posted June 11th, 2012 in Animation

At 6/11/12 01:25 AM, ExtremeFudgeMaster wrote: It seems that structure is consistently the lowest score. I understand the ABC thing, but how can everybody be doing so badly on structure? What are the judges looking for in structure?

Every entry is different and many scored lower in Structure than other categories for various reasons. If you have a specific entry in mind, we can help point it out to you. However, the primary reasons for structure being marked down are
A) Incompletion. This is the category where an incomplete entry will hurt you most. or,
B) Abrupt / unresolved ending. Keep in mind that a chaotic ending is fine, but there were some entries that never got to the main point at all.

Emrox had a fantastic entry, but all we get is a description of a really badass elephant assassin. Who was the rabbit at the beginning? Why does he want the dog dead? Who is the dog? What happens to him? Does he get killed? Does he run away? This story literally never goes anywhere, and so he was marked down for structure for this reason.

Other entries (such as Fungasm's entry) have a good establishment but then because it is incomplete (and without a storyboard, to boot), we have no idea where the story goes. What happens after the elephant comes out of the head and pulls the boy's spirit out? It never resolves in any way.

TL;DR: Structure is all about the story. Establish a premise, create a conflict or situation, and resolve it. Many entries failed to resolve due to incompletion or an abrupt ending. Other entries (such as LazyModeComics) never had a premise to begin with.

I will see if Thor can write up a helpful article on structure for everyone. It's a category that is not exclusive to animation, but to any form of motion media (film, video games, television, some comics, etc.)

Also below are the total statistics of everyone's combined scores in each category.

- N A T A - Novice Round!

Response to: - N A T A - Novice Round! Posted June 11th, 2012 in Animation

At 6/11/12 12:02 AM, Travis wrote: I feel like SymphyBunny's scores for BPremo's flash were very unreasonable. I'd like to know a detailed explanation on that because I thought Bill had one of the best entries BY FAR.

We have multiple judges in order to get a diverse range of opinions and scores. If they were all the same, I would be concerned. I am sorry that BPremo did not score as high as you would have liked him to. (However, he won the round regardless, so I don't see a contestable issue to be resolved in this situation)

If BPremo would like an extended explanation, I will see what I can do to acquire one. Are you a friend of theirs?
Also I disagree. I thought BPremo had a great entry in terms of art and animation, but had flaws in the other categories, so I think the scores are justified, personally. (The Entertainment category in particular is an entirely subjective field that will vary in every person who sees it)

@ Rocinante - There are a lot of inconsistencies in that (eg. NitWitt's super low score in structure, Tom & Nitwitt high scores with Dave and Symphy low scores in Entertainment, and Symphy's low score in animation)?

Every judge has justification for their scores. Thinking back, I would now change my score in Animation for Catoblepas to be lower because it is a lot of tweening with the only actual animation being on the boobs/ass and the chewing guy's mouth. It probably doesn't deserve a 5.

Response to: - N A T A - Novice Round! Posted June 11th, 2012 in Animation

At 6/10/12 11:58 PM, jagondudo wrote: I feel not so proud of having gotten thru over sandwich eater. When will the scores and detailed critique stuff gonna be up?

As mentioned in my previous post, all scores and reviews are now up here: http://nata.munchymedia.com/novice/
If it doesn't show up, try clicking refresh.

Also:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1307852

- N A T A - Intermediate Round! Posted June 10th, 2012 in Animation

Congratulations to the 16 entrants who have passed the Novice Round!

* NATA Website
* Intermediate Round Page

You will now face another winner of the novice round head to head, who you must defeat by creating a superior animation in order to move on to the Masters!

*** The Intermediate Round ***

The Theme for the Intermediate Round is...

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* A True Companion *
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*** Rules ***
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* You have until 11:59:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time, on July 5th 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. CatFat
* Catoblepas vs. test-object
* BPremo vs. ExtremeFudgeMaster
* DuDul vs. McBinkles
* coughing-dog vs. Dannx3anim8ion
* JagonDudo vs. JerrodStorm
* EmRox vs. TeamTamago
* SlackMan vs. VieRickend

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*** Judging ***
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Entries will be judged by the following judges:
* Tom Fulp
* Dave Bruno
* NitWitt
* SymphyBunny

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*** Submissions ***
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* Entries must be uploaded via the NewGrounds Flash Portal.
* Entries must be tagged with "nata2012intermediate" 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 "nata2012intermediate" on NewGrounds, showing all entries with that tag.
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*** Late Penalties ***
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