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AICN's Weta Collectibles KING KONG Contest!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with one hell of an awesome contest for you guys.
As a lot of you collectibles enthusiasts might now, Weta has branched off from Sideshow and have started their own collectibles company: Weta Collectibles. They're kicking off with two lines, KING KONG and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. They have graciously given us one piece from each line to give away to our readers.
This is the contest for KING KONG. Look for the Narnia Contest to go up this weekend!
Wanna see what you could win?
This is the crown jewel of the KONG line, Kong Vs. The V-Rex. It carries a hefty price tag, coming in at just under $500 retail. It stands 23.5 inches high and is a monster of a piece. I'm also told it will be signed (I would guess on the base) by Richard Taylor and the sculptor(s).
This special prize deserves a very special contest and I think I've got just the thing (after a little deliberation with my pet monster, Kraken).
What I want from you folks is a little creativity, a little sweat and a lot of imagination and time. I want you to come up with a new creature that Kong has to fight on Skull Island (either serious or funny, ie Giant Creepy Monster or Giant Harry Knowles) and I want you to bring it to life through the magic of Stop Motion Animation.
I require a video between 10 seconds and 1 minute in length and under 10 megs in size that captures your magnificent creature in all its glory on Skull Island. I'd prefer to see it tussle with Kong, but I won't make that anything more than a suggestion. It's not a hardlined rule. The only hardline rule for this contest is it must be animated using the Stop Motion technique.
Read these specifics closely:
How do you send your entry?
I don't want to endanger my mail server with these entries, so I suggest the use of a wonderful and free website: YouSendIt.com, which allows you to upload large files directly from your computer and send it as an email inbox saving link.
If you have your own website, you can just FTP it there and send me a link that way as well.
The final entries have to be under 10 megs in size and can be in Windows Media or a Quicktime friendly video format (preferred). Again, the video must be between 10 seconds and 1 minute in length. No more than 60 seconds, no less than 10.
Where do you send your entry?
You need to email the link to your entry to quint@aintitcool.com. Subject line should read: Stop Motion Contest.
Who can enter?
Anybody, any age. The contest is open to anybody in the world. If you want to make it a father/son experiment, a solo project, a group adventure... However you want. If it's a large group, just remember... you're only getting one prize, so work out the visitation rights in case you win.
When do you need to send it?
You have 2 weeks from today, Friday November 18th. That means this is due 11:59pm CST Friday, December 2nd.
What do you need to include?
A link to your Stop Motion Masterpiece and your mailing address. That's it. Although, you might want to have proof of your Stop Motion adventure handy if I request it.
I'm serious about it being Stop Motion only. I don't want flash animation or full motion home videos. This is for KING KONG, so stop motion is the one and only way to win him. If you have no idea how to pull off stop motion animation, click this link right here to learn about free software and see a video tutorial on how to use it thanks to the good folks at G4. Here is a link where you can find that free software! There's also a website called Stop Motion Animation.com that seems to have a wealth of information on the art form. I'm sure there are loads more sites out there to help you bring your imagination to life, one frame at a time.
I was just sent an email with a link to another free Stop-Motion program called Xipster. Thanks for the heads up, David!
Perhaps the best part of this whole thing is that the lucky winner not only gets that awesome Kong Vs. V-Rex statue, but they will also get their winning Stop Motion work featured on Weta's very own website!!! Cool, eh?
I will pick the winner based on creativity and execution of their creature as well as their eye for shots, character of their creations and overall execution of the stop motion.
Now a bit of legalese due to the fact that one sad sack loser tried to piss in everybody's punch over a previous contest. The winner I pick is final and I can change the rules at any time. By entering this contest you agree to those terms.
So, get crackin'! The clock's ticking! But before you head off... let's see the beauty of a prize once more...
Ahhh, isn't she beautiful? If you have any questions, either drop me an email or ask me in the talkbacks below. Have fun, guys!!
-Quint
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At any rate, I'm entering. done a bit of stop-motion in the past and I sure as hell ain't stopping now. Motion. Meh.
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When you pick the winners, host them on this site so everyone can watch them. Don't just link to poor schlub's personal website, so it is brought to its knees, before it expires his hosting companies bandwidth and presents him with an overage bill greater than the cost of the prize. And yeah, that is what would have happened, I have been coming here since the 90s. I know that is what would have happened... That said, I look forward to the work of people more talented and less apathetic than I...
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Tell us, Tell us!!!!
We will punish him, MWAHAHAHAHAHA! -
because that prize is pretty damn badass
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I did a 3 minute stop motion movie in college and it took me the whole quarter to complete.
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...This would be so much easier to type. Goddamn Japan Standar Tie Coupled with Japanese Gaijin Drunken time. Sobriety in japan is HARAD!!!!
Fuck, I'd Id dahrunk~~~~ -
Nov 18, 2005 7:50:54 AM CST
Unbelieveable !!! someone encouraged a little creativity (throug
by no.6
No more of the "Who directed Jaws?" (type bit)-
i.e.(!)-Is it a.) Steven Spielberg
b.) Steven Spielberg
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Nov 18, 2005 7:55:30 AM CST
Who the hell can produce a ten minute stop motion movie in 14 da
by mortsleam
Unpossible.
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Still, one minute is a helluva lotta work. 24 frames per second x 60 seconds = 1,440 frames. Good luck.
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Logic dictates that if modern birds evolved from dinosaurs, and if modern birds come in a staggering variety of colors, some of the predatory and scavenging birds especially, then perhaps dinosaurs also had an array of bright patterns. Hell, there's even evidence now that suggest that raptors had rudimentary feathers. Yet, the V-Rex is the color of a baby's diaper. Stephen Jay Gould is fuming in his grave. That said, this sculpture looks awesome.
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THAT industrious lil bastard would've tackled this in a heartbeat! Of course, he also would have skipped about four days of school to get it done, shoplifted most of the necessary supplies and continued his track record of disappointing the shit outa his old man by preferring gay-ass movie crap to football and hunting things with guns. Jesus, Harry, what's wrong with you, trying to corrupt my 14-year-old past self like this???? =) Man, I wish I had the time... what a wonderful idea, Harry. Keep this sort of thing going. You're nurturing an element of creative outlet all too under-supported in today's schools. One suggestion -- how about creating categorical contests: one for semi-adult geeks, and another for the kids? Even if you MUST make the cutoff age something like 16, it would give younger fans a better shot, given the better resources to which their elders may have access...
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Nov 18, 2005 9:35:53 AM CST
So, how much you wanna bet that at least half of the entries wil
by shermdawg
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So technically I could be competing with Ray harryhausen or Phil Tippett? Oooooooookay.
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to try my hand at stop motion, Harry great idea...not trying to kiss ass but come on a 10 second stop motion short? hardcore
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Nov 18, 2005 11:00:49 AM CST
re:Alonzo Mosely - The winning video will be hosted on the WETA
by kraken
I also think 2 weeks is plently of time to make a quick stop-motion bit. 10 seconds of stop motion is about 2-3 hours of animating (depending on the level of detail your are putting into the animation of course). I'd say that was worth $500 of your time. Plus you'll have your work seen by everyone going to the WETA web-site and AICN web-site for a time. That's built in distribution man!
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Nov 18, 2005 11:16:27 AM CST
mortsleam, I believe the logic in coloring large dinosaurs dun..
by 3 bag enema
...is that we are not used to seeing large animals with bright colors. All large land animals have dull colors, and, since we have no idea how a t-rex might have been colored, the creators follow this logic. That said - who the hell is going to bother with this contest? A)It's easier to just buy the stupid statue and B)Who would want it? When JoBlow.com has a contest like this, all they as is that you submit your freakin' e-mail address!
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It looks like the link for this program on that G4 page is outdated. But here is a good link to download the program free - http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html
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Most of those Kong statues/busts still have the snaggletooth version. Maybe they should have waited until the final design was nailed down?
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Nov 18, 2005 1:17:04 PM CST
They could change the design right up until they ship.
by citizen arcane
Maybe the snaggletooth toys will be collector's items.
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Clay? Rubber with wires in them? I'm interested. Watch someone animate it on their PC and win. No winner has ever followed the rules in these contests.
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Nov 18, 2005 4:59:42 PM CST
re Kraken - Isn't updating the article after I post but befo
by alonzo mosely
Damn johnny-come-latelies...
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Actually, the "weta hosting" bit was in the original article. Quint only updated a link to an animation program. So come lately on that... err.. um.. nevermind.
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Nov 18, 2005 6:23:47 PM CST
"No winner has ever followed the rules in these contests."
by 3 bag enema
This is true. And don't bother challenging the webmasters on it. They'll just blow you off. With great power, comes great go fuck yourself.
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I have the cels and the Nosferatu to prove it. For that matter, it's not been apparent to me that other winners broke rules. Like the tattoo, or the macaroni Hellboy... So I have no idea what every one's moaning about. Stop moaning and stop motion instead!
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But what's the point of trying to fallow rules that don't mean squat?
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The basic rules are not going to change. I think what Quint is trying to avoid is someone being able to nit pick and argue creative merit and try to say someone didn't follow the rules because Kong was represented by a bunch of paper clips instead of a clay statue. The rules as far as how long it's suppose to be (10 sec 60 sec) and how to send it in, and that it should be Kong vs something are pretty hard rules. Quint is just trying to reserve creative judgement on the final entries. But I guess if you're at all concerned about it, then don't enter. Honestly, if you don't win, you still got to do something creative. If you're just wanting to do some stop motion "only" to win a prize, then you're probably not the type that should be entering anyway. I think you'd be missing the spirit of this contest. In the spirit of Kong, it's to get people out there unleashing their creativitiy. But if you'd rather spend time complaining in a talkback instead of getting out your clay and figuring out what to make, go ahead. That statue is going to look awesome sitting on the desk of the guy that didn't bother to bitch, but just started being creative.
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Nov 18, 2005 11:49:46 PM CST
Kraken - There are two possibilities. You are wrong, or I am wro
by alonzo mosely
Also something about never seeing a real woman naked and some tortured sex analogy suggesting you are pathetic and inadequate and proving once and for all that my internet penis is far bigger than yours. Seriously, I am positive there wasn't such a thing in the initial post, and I saw it within seconds, because I work third shift, and never, well, actually work. I never sleep either, so I claim insanity if I am wrong, which I ain't...
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It's gonna hurt like a bitch.
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...that you'd accuse me of having a Uwe Boll poster in my house!
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Nov 19, 2005 2:57:52 AM CST
My apologies Kraken, I should, of course, have said 'autogra
by alonzo mosely
I really should do some work at some point...
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how come you're not writing for AICN, I wonder? For me, Quint is king, but with Harry having, eh, left?, we need new blood, dude! Don't let your buddy do all the good work on his own.
Great, GREAT contest you guys came up with, btw. It's the Kong, baby! -
even if it kills my wallet to buy a digital camera.
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What's the situation with music? Can entrants use copyrighted material, or does the score also have to be original?
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Nov 22, 2005 7:53:06 AM CST
What the hell does "pash" mean, and does it mean what I was gonn
by scrumdiddly
It's positively pornographic!
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everyone knows that
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It's just the other monster that needs to be stop-motion, right? Backgrounds, foregrounds, can be anything, just Kong and 'THE NEW BEAST' must be stop-motion?
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Nov 29, 2005 9:47:45 AM CST
I would assume the backgrounds don't have to be "stop motion
by freak2thec0re
since they weren't in the original king kong. And I'd hope we don't have to use original music either. If someone could answer those 2 questions so I don't end up wasting my time on this, that would be great though
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Agreed.
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Harry, be aware Friday isn't finished until 11:59 pm. I'll be taking full advantage of that
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and after 18 hours straight of shooting, calling out of work just to do so, my work is near completion
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Why spend hundreds of dollars producing an entry when one could just buy the thing?
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you been watchin too many movies, man
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can we post our entries here before the winner is announced? or do we get disqualified if we do? I'd love to see some of you guys' works. by the way, when will the winner be announced?
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...but I don't know if that's allowed, and since YSI only allows 25 downloads I want to make sure that Quint has seen it before everyone else does. But I am really curious about the number of entries! Oh, and Harry just posted in the KONG piece that Quint is in New York, so it'll be a while before the winners will be announced.
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I suggested to Quint that he post other entries, though I acknowledged the bandwith problem as a potential show-stopper.
There are a some entries at www.stopmotionanimation.com:
http://tinyurl.com/9kxss
I've only seen three entries, mine included, and I think this one should win:
http://tinyurl.com/79ead
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It is going to ne hard to top Kong vs. the Aquadrillicus, I love Kong smiling and wiggeling his toes.
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Dec 04, 2005 8:24:31 AM CST
I'll definitely put up a link to mine after the winner's
by freak2thec0re
and would definitely like to see everyone else's
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"Will announce a winner soon (hopefully Monday)! Thanks for entering!"
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