"What if you want the money and challenge but don't want or is able too take a job? The challenge sounds great btw."
The contest is only be a contest. Do the anims, win the prize. I just mentioned the job prospects to explain the reason behind the contest. But yes, of course you can enter, win and if we happened to contact you, you can still turn down any work offers.
Ultimately the problem with the previous contest (the FSc art) is that I was butting heads on specifics when it wasn't my forum. And ultimately the mods have the right to make these kind of decisions. In fact, so long as the objectives of this contest (Take the sprite, do a run cycle and a dance animation, without adding additional colors) remain the same, I'd be happy to just hand it over and let the mods run it if they saw fit. All I want out of this is to hopefully see the best of what the forum has to offer in terms of animation, and see how everyone works on assignment. It gives people an opportunity to make something fun, win a little cash and maybe even work on a GBA game, if they're interested. Contests always bring out the best in people (our IGN contest was a prime example of this, with 144 entries), and since my bosses agree I was able to scrape together a little prize for it.
- Adam