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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I think the real question we need to ask ourselves is are we prepared for THAC mentally and physically? Will we survive it? Will we be able to animate on a schedule? Will stress overcome you and you will have a breakdown and be forced to eat potato chips? :lol: 

In all seriousness, though, we do need to prepare ourselves. We need get up earlier tomorrow so your body will be used to wake up early so on Saturday you will be prepared. You also need to go to bed early, so you can get plenty of sleep before THAC.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[rioforce]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Preparing for Thac Early? Yay or Nay?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I don't really care whether someone preps beforehand or not honestly. My brother and I have taken part in two THACs now, and we didn't do anything to prep for them though. 

If someone want to build sets beforehand, more power to them. 

If someone wants to ride the fence on whether they actually even [i]want[/i] to participate, and then likely wake up late and decide they do and have nothing ready... well, to bad for [s]me[/s] them. B/]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[AnW]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-01-01T18:56:58Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=sillypenta][quote=SlothPaladin]Ever since True Love Waits (the original THAC cut of that film is long lost)[/quote]
That wouldn't happen to be [url=https://www.mediafire.com/?4kou6n49e62j29w]this[/url] cut, would it?[/quote]

:o I am so happy you have this! I thought it was lost forever, it's even worse then I remember! I guess we added more then I thought we did.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[SlothPaladin]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-31T04:41:49Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I've cleaned my desk and maybe i will make a set or a bunch of them. Remember that horror film idea i had about minifig heads? Yeah, i'm going to do something with it and hopefully make it fit with the chosen theme.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[WoutStopmotion]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-31T00:53:25Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=SlothPaladin]Ever since True Love Waits (the original THAC cut of that film is long lost)[/quote]
That wouldn't happen to be [url=https://www.mediafire.com/?4kou6n49e62j29w]this[/url] cut, would it?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Penta]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[sillypenta@gmail.com]]></email>
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			<updated>2014-12-31T00:07:50Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I'm currently unable to edit films, so I'm preparing by looking for an editing software.  If I find one I might enter.

If I do I want it to be about robots, since robots have synthesized voices which are less troublesome than recording lines, and those robot voices also sound really funny. I've wasted too much time on voice in the past,  So maybe, maybe.

Also, if I get some editing to work, I'll have to move Darkmoor from my animation spot.  I really don't want to do it DURING THAC because it's such a big set that it will probably take me ten minutes to move the entire thing, and that's not something I'd like to rush because I'll likely break part of it.

Of course, right now I can't even locate that editing software I was going to use. :P

Last year I built like four or five sets in advance.  Just to be prepared for anything.  Since they didn't all fallow the same theme, it was obvious I wasn't going to use all of them, or perhaps anyone.  But building that many sets that fast was good practice.

In BRAWL this year I built most of the sets in the time, but I used several elements from the Darkmoor set which happened to be around, like the road and the Town Hall.

I was actually really leaning toward having a film about Ouskavar and the Crimson Gumdrop last year, but I the first story to pop into my head was the space idea once the time started, and I usually stick with the first idea.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Squid]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T13:26:04Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[The closest thing I do to preparation is clear my desk. Since I'm a writer anyway, I always have about five ideas swimming around in my head at one time. Sometimes when THAC comes around, one of these ideas is perfect - but most of the time I think up my THAC idea on the spot. 

It shows, doesn't it?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Max Butcher]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T08:21:46Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[If I entered THAC I would have to make at least [i]some[/i] of my sets beforehand. While it may not be much in the spirit of THAC, I'd find it difficult to cope otherwise. While I've been tempted THAC for years, I'm a very slow animator, and don't deal with stress well, so I'd have to do even a small amount of prep work to keep that at bay.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T08:13:30Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[My take on this is that if you want to make your film from scratch in 24 hours, have at, but there's no such thing as starting from scratch when you're making a film with LEGO characters. I'd rather not put myself at a disadvantage by making restrictions for myself beyond those that everybody can be held to.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T04:33:53Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[You guys have winter break, I have a physically demanding full time job, I do enter contests to win, and I can't be competitive if I spend the whole day figuring out lighting. I still want to make a movie I can be proud of and I enjoy all me old THAC films, my goal is to push myself every time I make a film, even if it is a THAC film, and I NEVER what to release something that looks like a sitcom.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[SlothPaladin]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T03:50:21Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Oh, come on, Sloth, that's not fair! Nobody can even hold a candle to the sets and lighting you have! :P

I've build a few props, I might work on a set or two tomorrow, I don't know. It's according to if I am going to pick a general idea now, or wait. It sort of seems I already picked a theme, because I just built a bunch of police-themed stuff (I also build a few couches and a reclining chair). :P

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6Er-u0CcAAyD5Y.jpg:large[/img]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[rioforce]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T03:33:16Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I used pre-made sets and props in all of my three THAC entries, and truth be told the pre-made pier is probably one of the biggest reasons I was able to win with A Night at the Pier. Ever since True Love Waits (the original THAC cut of that film is long lost) I have had a loose idea of what I plan to film in my head before the theme is announced and I have never had a hard time working in the theme to the script I write.

I take an INSANE amount of time to build sets and light them so having the majority of the sets constructed before had allows me to focus on animation. Plus if live action film makers aren't required to build sets from scratch on a sound stage for there 48 hour film festivals why should we have to build sets for our 24 hour stop motion contest when stop motion is already SO MUCH SLOWER.

This year is no different, I am working on two sets, nether of witch are finished but both are close:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/qzQkqE][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7552/16135437522_36b78ee752_n.jpg[/img][/url]

[url=https://flic.kr/p/quGqoG][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7547/16077310852_e97162ed7a_n.jpg[/img][/url]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[SlothPaladin]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T03:04:41Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Didn't know you could do that. Like, make sets and premises and characters and stuff?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Gentry Studios]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T03:04:29Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Walter Benson]And here I thought THAC was just about crapping out another sequel to Cashman, when in reality most of it was pre-planned.

You disappoint me, Philip. :( [/quote]
And here I thought that the THAC results were rigged every time a Cashman brickfilm was entered into the contest because of the fact that Smeags would unleash his administrative rage on the judges if otherwise.

[i]Curse[/i] you, Philip. :twitch:]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Mickey]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T02:52:11Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I'd only add that I did the preparation quickly. It was usually all thrown together the night before, not over days or weeks. Part of the fun of THAC to me is the short-term nature of it.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-12-30T02:25:42Z</updated>
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