Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
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I was wondering, has anyone thought about making another Amateurs In Motion? Of course it wouldn't be held now because of all the contests going on now. I would just love to see this contest held again. 
Thanks, MatthewBowler
*raises hand*
I'd considered it, though not very seriously (yet). And not for a while, though. After the TOY deadline at the earliest.
I would like it to happen again because I sadly "just" missed it. I say we all should but the world is so cramped with contest now we all agree later it should be.
I'd be happy to enter AiM2 if there was one.
Read the original thread from here onwards and think if you really want this to happen.
...do we really want to encourage mediocrity by punishing excellence?
As bluntly and beautifully as Jargon put it, I don't think this contest "encouraged mediocrity by punishing excellence." I think it encouraged normally mediocre directors to strive for excellence because it wasn't a foregone conclusion that they wouldn't finish higher than 10th or so. I somewhat like this contest, though I realize there's no way for it to be exactly what the target demographic thinks it is.
It's worth noting that I can't remember a single film from the contest, or even remember who entered. So if the point of the contest was to inspire a previously middle-of-the-road director to produce a great film, it failed. That said, it was popular with the entrants, so I think it's at least worth considering a revival... just not until August at the earliest.
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