I am sad to say that I have pretty much given up on finishing mine in time. I didn't make this decision lightly... this contest has been very important to me, and I really wanted to enter, but some things have happened in the past few weeks that were out of my control. Nothing devastating to my life, but just things that took up my time. I am now waaaay behind on animating.

Fortunately, this is a film I planned to make anyway, before I even found out about the contest. So my efforts were not wasted.

Meaning you are quiting?

TSV wrote:

Meaning you are quiting?

Quitting the contest, but not the film.

• All entries must be primarily composed of stop-motion animation. 3D, Flash, or other animation techniques may be used to in addition to stop-motion as long as the finished product is at least roughly 70% stop-motion animation.

• Entries should use LEGO or similar building toys as primary elements.

• No mature/explicit content is allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: swearing, excessive/gory violence, overt sexual content, and blatant drug references.

• Minimum runtime is 1 minute, including any titles and credits. There is no maximum runtime. Remember, it is better to focus on quality and attention to detail than to make a very long and ambitious film, but let the quality suffer. A highly-polished three-minute movie is better than a ten-minute movie that falls apart because the director ran out of time to do it the right way. The judging system won't favor a film for simply being longer, but low production values will hurt a longer film when competing against a shorter film that is better made.

• Submitted films must be new films, created specifically for this contest.

• Entrants may only submit one entry per person.

• Films may not be posted publicly until after the contest deadline has passed.

• The entry you submit to the judges must be the entry made publicly available to everyone else.

• Entries must contain only images, sounds, music, and story material which you have the rights to distribute -- no copyrighted content to which you do not have the rights may be used. No trademarked properties which might be confused with commercial enterprises may be used. This means you can not use storylines based on characters from Star Wars, Marvel, Ninjago, or other trademarked series. You cannot base your work on copyrighted material; however, old works that are now in the public domain are acceptable source material. All material included in films submitted must be original, or content that you have expressed permission to use. If you use content that is not your own, you must be able to provide proof that you have received permission to include it in your film.  All music must be credited, even if you made it yourself.

If I got permission from DC, would I be able to submit it then?