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First Contest!!! LOL-3-ER

Okay, here's our first contest! I know you have all been waiting for it!

So, what I'm looking for is a good video and/or still that makes me go LOL!!!
(notice the the 3 !'s)...

I'll put up the winning video on LOL!!!, where it will bring laughter to many!
While I have no real prizes currently, I'm sure I can find something great pretty soon...

Rules.
1. The image must be no smaller than 200 by 400 pixels, and no larger than 1024 by 1280 pixels. The videos can be any size smaller than 600x800 and larger than 100x300...

2. There maybe up to 3 entries per person, once you add an entry, you can remove it (one removal only, any more and you will be dissed ;-) Not really. But you will not be eligible).

3. You can change your vote at anytime within the voting period.

4. Please use only work which you have created for the contest (although, props and characters can be borrowed from previous work). Please use only your own work, unless you have you permission from the original designer/artist. I will try provide props for those who ask. If you use someone else's work without permission (and I find out, you will be disqualified. This is due to Blendimation's official rules)...

Dates.
The contest opens Monday the 6th of August and submission ends on Friday the 25th of August...

Voting.
Voting begins on the 26th and ends on the 31st of August.
Since you can vote for more than one item, I will base the winner off of the highest overall vote.

Ties.
If there is a tie, I will use the poll method. The tied members of the competion will be rated by votes on this poll, and this will give us our winner!

Post-amble :)
Well, get started! I might try my hand at this one as well, but I'm not sure if the contest creators should be allowed to join. Oh well, time for a new poll!

PLEASE! See the contests tab! I have more info there!!!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Collins on August 2, 2007 at 10:34pm: Great first theme Roland.
I like that it's pretty wide-open as opposed to being too specific.

Is there a rule regarding the use of Blender to produce the imagery?

Oh, I think everyone, including you and I, should be allowed to participate since the whole forum votes on the winner.

Do you think the criteria for winning should include anything other than simply "funniest"?

Execution, originality, complexity and other aspects might be cover 50% of a score while "flat-out funniest" might be the other 50% of the score? I've been known to over-think things so no worries here if the preference is to keep it simple.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Roland Taylor on August 3, 2007 at 9:34am: Hi! On the use of blender, you got there first but it crossed my mind. For this one, I think that's a good one... :-)
In future, I will get an idea of the programs everyone uses is their pipeline, and make a list of allowed programs.

As for the author's participation, good view; I'll wait on the results of the poll...

And finally, I will be looking for more than just funniest, but since not all of our users are "experts" like you and I, I will be nice, and give everyone a chance ;-)

On a whole, great ideas!
And thanks for the contest idea in general.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by StevenBuri on August 3, 2007 at 1:51pm: I don't understand, why woudn't the user just post it on LOL instead of having you post it???

Oh and Roland, somethings wrong with my msn account so if you want to talk you've got to log onto Skype.
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Permalink Reply by Roland Taylor on August 3, 2007 at 2:02pm: HAHA...
OK.

The only people on LOL are you and me. And I do happen to own LOL, so it will save others the trouble...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by StevenBuri on August 3, 2007 at 10:59pm: LOL, nobody owns lol, save the person thats causing it! haha, anyways maybe we are the only ones that post or respond, by the way Roland don't take any of the stuff I said on their personally, we don't have to argue aggresivly, we can just argue our points, doesn't have to be you vs me! Leared some of this stuff in Logics bible class for the first 2 months of the school year before I switched classes.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Roland Taylor on August 4, 2007 at 11:25am: It sounds all funny to me. And some other people do contribute, though rarely... If you leave them a few comments, you'll get some replies :)

...Rolandixor...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Microwave on August 5, 2007 at 1:11pm: WOOO CONTEST, YEAH! :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wert613 on August 20, 2007 at 12:26pm: ok so im wondering where I'm supposed to submit my image?

should i upload it to this thread?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Roland Taylor on August 20, 2007 at 1:06pm: Anywhere you like. You can add it to the thread or add an photo as normal and just either add the lol-3-er tag or mention that it's for the contest. I'll take care of the rest...

Oh, I'm going to extend the contest for another two weeks after the current end-date...; ▶ Reply to This