At 5/2/14 11:47 PM, MocaNico wrote: Awesome! lets get this party started yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy.

Ur 2 good 2 compete

Yes I will definitely be participating this year, I cant wait to get started

WOO! It's that time of year again. Goodluck to everyone participating!

Not competing myself but, good luck everyone!

I'll do something. Hopefully...

At 5/3/14 12:49 PM, urbfilms wrote: Writing a couple of scripts right now!

I'm coming up with a few myself. Who knows? I might compete...

Best of luck to all!

Am I allowed to PM someone and request some custom music for my entry?

At 5/3/14 04:30 PM, nat29 wrote: Am I allowed to PM someone and request some custom music for my entry?

Yes, as long as they agree to it. Make sure you set an agreement on splitting any possible prizes!
Reminder: You CANNOT team up with another animator. This is a one-animator-per-entry contest

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I am very good with the theme. i think i have a very good idea for it. Also, will you know which judge gives you what score?

Good luck guys... wish i could compete this year

This is going to be awesome!

If anyone needs music, I'll be happy to help out. Here, here and here are some examples of what I have to offer. Good luck to all of you.

Aw man, forgot another thing. Do I have to write this by myself, or someone else can write the script for me? I'm not good at writing scripts...

I'm so excited that I've already brainstormed ideas, and am in the middle of writing a script. Good luck to everyone! I can't wait to see what competition I've got.

I'm pretty sure that's allowed considering that I've seen it be done in the past.

At 5/3/14 10:04 PM, nat29 wrote: Aw man, forgot another thing. Do I have to write this by myself, or someone else can write the script for me? I'm not good at writing scripts...

you are allowed to team up however you'd like so long as you are the only animator.

Friendly reminder that the NATA Skype Chat is a thing! Wanna join? Just add me on Skype (ryry67dude) and tell me that you're interested in being a part of our wacky chat where we do collabs and discuss animation tips and make friends and talk about poop every so often.

At 5/3/14 11:44 PM, Chongo wrote: Friendly reminder that the NATA Skype Chat is a thing! Wanna join? Just add me on Skype (ryry67dude) and tell me that you're interested in being a part of our wacky chat where we do collabs and discuss animation tips and make friends and talk about poop every so often.

From now on, if you wish to join the chat, you must send a contact request to lazymodejake. DO NOT SEND TO RYRY67DUDE!

At 5/4/14 12:38 AM, KaDoYuu wrote: Ooh.. I like collabs. Where do I sign up?

I'll be organizing in-between-round collabs again, I think. I'm currently trying to think of ideas for themes for that. Maybe "secret handshake"? Anyone have any input?

Yes! This is exactly why I signed up to this site. Count me among those working on somthing for this competition.

From now on, if you wish to join the chat, you must send a contact request to lazymodejake. DO NOT SEND TO RYRY67DUDE!

Oh yes, I really enjoyed the collabs last year, I'm definitely gonna add you on skype.

At 5/3/14 10:49 AM, Pahgawk wrote: Hey guys, I'm not going to be entering this year, but if anyone needs music I might be able to help with that!

I feel like you said that last year, but you kept submiting stuff.

At 5/4/14 01:26 PM, francisyfl wrote: I feel like you said that last year, but you kept submiting stuff.

That's true, but when the open round started I had already changed my mind. This time I think I've decided I'm actually going to change things up and just spend a lot of time making something a little longer and with less compromises

I will be partaking in the making

At 5/4/14 02:00 PM, Pahgawk wrote: That's true, but when the open round started I had already changed my mind. This time I think I've decided I'm actually going to change things up and just spend a lot of time making something a little longer and with less compromises

What if you do exactly that, but do it over the period of several months and do it in four distinct parts with a predetermined theme for each segment and then upload each piece as it's own individual short with a beginning, middle, and end to Newgrounds.com as part of their tournament of animation, also known as nata? I mean, that's pretty much the same thing.

Man, I rewrote my whole script and story board. I think I'm going to actually start to look for voices tomorrow, but, I can't afford to pay money for any.

Something just crossed my mind: Are we allowed to use original characters that we've used in an animation before? I seem to remember TOFA having a rule against that and I don't think I've seen anything about it in the rules for NATA, so I was just wondering :3

I personally won't be competing this year, but I will keep a keen eye on how everybody does :D Best of luck to all who plan on competing!

At 5/4/14 11:17 PM, artistunknown wrote: Something just crossed my mind: Are we allowed to use original characters that we've used in an animation before? I seem to remember TOFA having a rule against that and I don't think I've seen anything about it in the rules for NATA, so I was just wondering :3

You can use your own characters, so long as all the animation and content is fresh! Oye-LKY did this last year.