Maybe 2 threads? A weekly challenge and a multi-monthly challenge.

Sounds good JohnDthunDer.

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This thread started out as a series of competitions focused on the technical aspect of brickfilm; the challenges were to animate specific actions that are not the easiest given the LEGO media. There have now been over one hundred challenges, not even counting the ones which haven't been added to the main post (an admin should really get on that, it's been a while since it's been updated). I think as a community we're running out of ideas for simple animation challenges (I think jumping on a bed would be a good one), there are only so many possibilities before they start overlapping. I'm in support of a change in format to more story or genre based challenges, I think it would help get peoples creative minds going and give some direction to their animation. I do however think that it should be re-branded as something other than the animation challenge, because it's really not the same thing. We definitely need a change though, or this thread is going to die, and I don't think anyone wants that.

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I'd really like to see this thread back up and going again, I haven't made an entry for a long time and I'd like to if it'd be organized.

And one side note: Personally I think it would be okay if some challenge themes were reused/similar to themes done a few years ago. A majority of people who still enter these challenges weren't around when this thread started. And it'd also give a chance for those who were around back then, but never had the chance to enter certain themes. Just my two cents.

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I like this idea.

It'd be great if the shorter challenges did pretty much what this thread has been doing since it started; it gives you a very specific and creative action or behavior to animate, perhaps more based for an animation test. Then however, the monthly challenge could maybe have more vague themes that you can base the animation of a whole film around. This could especially help because of how many people here on the forums rely and are encouraged to make films by contests.

Maybe it could be like an animation style that the entrants would have animate by? Perhaps something like that could work; not sure, just some ideas.

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Woahh woah woah. I missed brickfilming heaps so I came and visited BiM to get motivated but it seems somethings up with Animation Challenge, whats wrong and how can I help?

Here's an idea to toss around.  The problem with making it strictly an animation challenge is that after awhile, you kinda run out of ideas of silly things to animate haha.  What if we changed it to a directing challenge?  The person running the challenge would be responsible for writing a short script, and then it's up to the contestants to interpret it and make a short film.  We'd give a month or two to complete the whole film, but then also have shorter challenges with individual scenes.

So for example, say the challenge started today, the entire film would be due Dec 23.  Scene 1 would be due in one week, scene 2 the next, etc.  We could choose winners for individual scenes as well as the film as a whole.  And if you wanted to get elaborate you could judge on different categories (cinematography, animation, sound, etc) as well as best overall.  This way the shorter challenges would be a progression of the larger, rather than being separate.

So yeah, I hope that makes sense.  I'm not saying we have to do this, and you can tell me my idea sucks, I won't be offended haha.

I think that would be awesome!  I had actually thought about that before, some kind of contest where everyone has the same script and they each make their own interpretations of the film.  It seems interesting enough to keep people interested, hopefully, and I think it's something new and exciting!

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Elaborating on what Jordan (FP) said, we really could do that. BUT:
1.It should start with a scene, next contest the new writer continues to the next scene, and that goes over and over! It'd make it interesting.
2.The script is written without a lot of environmental detail, so directors can uniquely produce their film.
3.The challenge (if only a scene per challenge) should take between 2-4 weeks. Script shouldn't be so big that  videos are more than 2 minutes.
4.Be the awesome people we are- Brickfilmers!
5. 'Nuff said. You get the idea