i have about 149 left...guess i have 4 days left. My brain is burned with "a half measure"

Hydramine wrote:

I did all 390, but I think for those who get judged at the end, they will be unfairly judged because I have a feeling that most would have their fill around the 200 mark. I guess the best way to do it is groups per day.

Everyone sees the entries in a different order, and every entry gets an even rotation between first, last, etc in the order.  So the "voter fatigue" balances out across the entries. 

My head is spinning too with a half measure. 103 to go more.
I should follow the dialogue and go all the way.
Agree with 'dgovil'.

I did few today till 150 rest 2morrow.
Very few are beautifully done.
And 390 !!! That's is a really big number, don't understand why this month is so high.
Was it before or just this time ?

Is 390 the highest ever? 

I haven't' watched any yet.  Are there a lot where a guy was trying to tunnel out of prison but came up just inside of the wall?  That was the first idea I had and my first ideas tend to be not terribly unique.

aja, i really appreciate your effort.  you guys work so hard for the club.....you guys are helping many people in many ways and making many good animators around the world. Thanks

Yes, thank you aja for the work you all put into this site. It really is amazing. This site has helped me so much an inspired a new career path for me (one that I'm still a long way from lol). I do hope that something can be figured out for voting because, as you say, 390 is pretty insane. It's a tough call because you want to encourage everybody to participate, but you don't want to discourage people from voting. My personal opinion is that people should have to submit a simple exercise for evaluation. Something as simple as a well animated ball bouncing on the spot for example. If they can do that, they can participate. If they can't, they can't enter. The rest of the site would still be available for them to use, such as the personal works forums, but they just can't enter until they know the basics. There are probably 50-75 entries this month that wouldn't pass the ball bounce test and shouldn't be tackling acting pieces anyway. It would be a better use of their time to learn the basics.
Anyway, just my two cents

SO it's YOUR fault, fakepivot! I'll never talk to you again
I find this months voting even more gruesome, since there is no weekend for me to leisurely watch them all during the two days. Hmpf. Oh, well, here we go, then.

The ones that don't even bother to show any lip syncing make it easy to vote.

I am in support of anything that could help the process. You don't want to steer people away from the site, but like you said, there is the Personal Works forum that is always available. Somehow I think we need to filter out the people who are entering animations that are either a) clearly not finished or b) obviously the work of a beginner animator that isn't ready for this level of animation. Like I said, I don't want to discourage beginners, we are all beginners at one time, but it really does not help you to improve your work by tackling something you aren't ready for.

coolbird22 wrote:

I don't really know if this could work but its a try.
Before an entrant uploads his entry, there could be a check list that they would have to tick possibly, that they have attempted the shot to various levels of completion, and that it is not incomplete, or unfit for the competition. Doing so, will probably force the person to complete the shot and get it to a better standard than earlier.
As for those who would lie on this form and claim to have completed it even though it wasn't could be barred from entering future competitions. I know that this is a public forum and everyone should get a chance to learn, but one should start to accept the fact that, they really will not magically win the competition just by taking part in it.
This idea might not be perfect but it can be modified to suit the site better. Something really needs to be done to keep this a competition, or it really isn't any fun forcing low ranks on ill-made entries and end up dissuading the entrants, who take part. If they wish to learn and improve, they do have the Personal Animation Works section to post to.
Anyone who supports this ?

I agree

Mythsnlore wrote:

There are a lot of incomplete entries which is annoying. I think a lot of people run out of time and then submit it anyway as a "we'll just see how well it does" sort of thing.

Are there?  We usually reject incomplete entries (there were over a dozen this month), but I wouldn't be surprised if a few fell through the cracks this month.  Oh, but you're probably talking about entries that are still in blocking/etc.  I'm talking about entries where the video cuts off before the audio clip is done.  It's harder to decide what "unfinished" means for the rest of them...  but maybe that's something we could look into, determining what the bar is for "finished" work and disqualifying entries that don't meet it.  It'd mean a lot more entries wouldn't make it in, but maybe that's not a bad thing at this point?