The deadline for Loop Jam has arrived and all entries should now be accounted for. If you submit a late entry in the next ten hours, you can still rank in the top 10 but one point will be deducted for each hour you are late.

Loop Jam was ROUND 1 of our summer series of Animation Jams. ROUND 2 begins right now and you are welcome to enter even if you didn't participate in Round 1! Points are cumulative, so try to participate in as many rounds as possible.

The ROUND 2 animation theme is ROBOTS TOOK OUR JOBS.

In this age of automation, advances in technology are expected to replace upwards to half our jobs in the coming years. Create an animation about the robots who will be doing our jobs! It could be funny, insightful, scary, whatever route you want to go with it.

July 10th is Robot Day so please submit your finished animation on July 10th. It will also be eligible for a Robot Day prize.

Rules:

Minimum 30 seconds long.

Tag your entry with "RobotJam" and "RobotDay2016"

Content must be original; no parodies or characters you didn't create. Exception: The NG Bots!

Music must be from the Audio Portal or an original piece by a teammate.

As lead animator, you may partner with background artists, in-betweeners, colorers, writers, voice actors, musicians and sound effects artists.

The lead animator is the one who earns points in each round of this event. Support members may work with multiple animators and change things up each round.

Due Date:

Sunday, July 10th, 11:59PM EST.

Discuss your progress in this Animation Forum thread!

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Please watch and vote on as many loops as possible! We're launching a voting log this week that will allow you to privately view your voting history and its release will come with a special surprise.

@TomFulp Am I allowed to have the robots look like the Squishables characters that I created and can be seen in the link below (only with different ones of the same species), or should they look more like humans?

http://www.squishables5to8.net/

At 6/27/16 03:06 PM, Natty23 wrote: @TomFulp Am I allowed to have the robots look like the Squishables characters that I created and can be seen in the link below (only with different ones of the same species), or should they look more like humans?

http://www.squishables5to8.net/

Robots can look however you'd like robots to look!

Dibs on Mindchamber murdering Tom Fulp and becoming CEO of NG

You mean July 10th? =P

Tom wants to see who's devoted enough to defy the laws of time and space.

or he made a typo

At 6/27/16 03:15 PM, PhantomArcade3000 wrote: Tom wants to see who's devoted enough to defy the laws of time and space.

or he made a typo

That would have been great if the theme was TIME TRAVEL.

Wait actually would I be DQed for using Mindchamber's character and Tom Fulp?

Oh no, our jobs!

Two contests in the same jam! :D Nice.

Enjoying the Round 1 flood in the portal today. Looking forward to the next.

Oh...Wow...My loopjam animation was literally about a Robot making sushi in a sushi factory

• Unpublished Submission

I guess all of my entries for the summer jams will be robot based, if this is the way its going :P

At 6/27/16 03:24 PM, SuperBastard wrote: Wait actually would I be DQed for using Mindchamber's character and Tom Fulp?

HMMMMMM... @MindChamber, thoughts?

I did say the other week that NG bots could be allowed... If MindChamber is cool with it I suppose his bot is fair game too!

Any type of robot? PS: I'm new animation

Bleep-bleep (I'm 10101010ing (and cyber-printing a scary-comedy idea up... hmmm (robots slur too!).

Need a voice actor? Contact me for the best thing you've ever heard.

Is there anyway I could get a colorist? If you can, I would like your help, I may be able to pay unless I win.

Totally down to voice act anything anyone needs!

Sir, yes, sir. I'll give this one more time and it'll be spick and span. Yes'm. Indeed.

got it all planned out in my head, just gotta storyboard and record tomorrow

I am so in for this one, had to miss the last one due to other work commitments - might still try and finish it, but this one for sure, dedicated the whole weekend to it!

Let's see what i can do, now that i'm not joining 2 days before the deadline. XD

At 6/28/16 08:23 AM, CodeCrunch wrote: @TomFulp

How strict is the theme? does it have to be jobs as in plural/multiple jobs or can it be one robot taking a position held by a human? Does it have to be stuff like bus driver, waiter, cashier etc or can it be something more obscure? what do cyborgs fall under? I have one idea right now and I want to know if it's within the boundaries before embarking on something that doesn't even qualify

It can be a single robot taking a single job. Job can be anything that seems job-like enough. Something focused on cyborgs vs pure robots is a little shaky, I would say the theme may work best if it's a cyborg but still has an element of computer AI involved, for example a computer intelligence-aided physical enhancement...

robot enters an arena dominated by humans with various augments (so partial cyborgs I guess)
robot beats them then beats king of the arena who's just a plain human
robot overthrows human king and replaces human/cyborg crew with other pure robots

I suppose this is on-theme because the human guards lose their jobs to robots, essentially. Some people may view it as more "robots overthrowing humans via war" vs "robots taking human jobs" but if the replacement of the guards is emphasized well I think people would get it. So the better you can emphasize the changing of the guard, the more on-theme it should feel. Maybe a few human guards could survive and attempt to pledge allegiance to their new king, only to be replaced? Not necessary but tossing it out there.

Im having fun watching all the loops from the last challenge. Kudos to all those who made stuff. I hate robots but i might make something quick if i find some time.

Also first post.

At 6/27/16 03:20 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 6/27/16 03:15 PM, PhantomArcade3000 wrote: Tom wants to see who's devoted enough to defy the laws of time and space.

or he made a typo

That would have been great if the theme was TIME TRAVEL.

That would make a great FUTURE theme

Forgot to ask (as the idea is 100100000 formulating), but is a 3d animated character allowed too (awesome, wicked light effects, and imposing bot soo needed; while the main characters are 2d (and all the background hah)?

If anyone is interested in helping my team with background art message me.

At 6/28/16 10:41 AM, Luis wrote: I hate robots

Luis has spoken!

At 6/28/16 12:52 PM, micSMArts wrote: Forgot to ask (as the idea is 100100000 formulating), but is a 3d animated character allowed too (awesome, wicked light effects, and imposing bot soo needed; while the main characters are 2d (and all the background hah)?

Yup, 3D is totally fine!

Ok, I didn't make the last round, but I'm gonna go for it again! I rarely draw robots so this should be interesting.

Easy way to find and vote on the loops: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/search/movies/loopjam

should've been in the opening thread, Tomster

Wow, there's 4 of them Under Judgement right now and they look sweeeeeet