Congratulations to Blue Ghost! I was hoping to see his film up there. Congrats to everyone else as well.

I noticed that Easter Painter by France & Alex has no score for Story listed, and the total score is only a sum of two categories. It looks like it would have had a very good shot at the top 3 if it had Story points, so I hope this is remedied, to be fair.

Not going to lie but how judging was done is disappointing. Dividing parts of a film up into categories and judging based on giving meaningless scores is absurd. Especially how subjective the categories. I really hope this way of judging would die. Of course judging is going to be subjective but the system should encourage looking at the film as a whole and have the judges come to a consensus of the best films.

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Didn't come in the top ten; blast it. Eh, I knew what all went wrong with my entry anyway.
But a congratulations to Blue Ghost for winning!

Oh my, I am so sorry about the scoring mix up. A couple of the scores were mis-counted and the story score on Easter Painter was somehow cleared. The results have changed.

Instead of Daniel coming in third and France & Alex coming in fourth, France & Alex will now come in third place, and Daniel will come in fourth.

Also, some of the numbers of the scores have been fixed, it seems that a few of them were slightly off (though, it did not change the places any).

I am extremely sorry for this mix up.

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I don't understand why my entry was rated so low for originality. My only guess is that the judges thought it was inspired by The Fastest Story Ever Told. Which in fact, that film never came into my head while animating the short. While making it I thought it was completely original, and I saw that there was no EASTER entry in the past like it. But oh well.

This was the second contest I have ever entered, and 5th place is nice!

I also agree with Aqua about the scoring, points seem to not to be the best way for doing this. I would prefer something like THAC happening with contests like these; where the judges pick a top 10-15 and then decide from there.

Nonetheless congratulations to the top three and beyond, and thanks to Rioforce for hosting the contest!

Another special thanks goes to Monitogo Studios for sponsoring it.

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2nd place... That's awesome ! Never made top 3 in a contest before.

Thanks to rioforce for hosting the contest and providing the prizes, and Monitogo Studios for providing Bound!

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Congratulations top ten!
Is there any way to know my score?

Harborlight, I believe that your originality score was lowered because you simply made the story in the first books of the New Testament.
I'm not trying to be mean, I'm only sharing my opinion.
I really liked Rioforce's animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umY3Nhgp3RA
It shows the story of the resurrection using flowers.
But even with a low score on originality, you got fifth place. Congratulations!

Wow, what a nice surprise! I wasn't really expecting this given the turnout and the diversity of the entries - and the fact that I've been more or less on a brickfilming hiatus for the past five years. It seems that my efforts paid off!

It's great to have been a part of this! I'd like to give props to Rio for dealing with the scoring issue quickly and maturely.

And thanks to all for the warm congratulations. I'd like to take this time to also say that I was really a big fan of some of the other entries, especially those by Penta and Indy. Both of them, I thought, really shined in production, and were quite beautiful as well as entertaining to watch.

That was what the people in chat said to me. I think originality should be based on the approach to the subject matter rather than the use of subject matter. In the case of the Gospel's, I couldn't change anything and wouldn't. So basically if you were to create a movie from the Bible for EASTER any year, your score for originality would be low unless you don't follow the details of the book. If the same method of scoring will be used next year, then I would take this into account.

My score was lowered because I made something straight from the Bible, not on the uniqueness of how I did it. Which is what I was disappointed with.

But I'm not going complain to change it and I respect their decision.

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