In the name of fairness, we want to be transparent on how we judged each submission and inevitably picked the finalists. We really appreciate the meme animation community and are committed to making the selection process as fair and democratic as possible. We received over 890 submissions and randomly divided up the total amount of submissions between seven members of the CloudKid team. We made sure to go through every single one and picked those that really connected with us individually to put forward to the final round. From here, each team member rated a score out of ten for each video based on the following categories: Animation Quality, Creativity/Originality, and Emotional Connection/Story. These scores get averaged out for each category, and each category’s score is weighted equally to give a final score out of 100. The winners are then decided from these scores and approved by Sir Fluff. 😊 Once again, thank you to everyone that submitted - it was a pleasure to watch your video! ❤ 🙌

@AylencitaDex

2 жыл бұрын

I loved to participate in this contest But I want to you know Do you liked my meme??? I only want to know if im a great animator 😥😥

@SpottertheOtterfox

2 жыл бұрын

@@AylencitaDex yours are better than Rocky Rakoon and the Poppy shitime

@perfectkittens3390

2 жыл бұрын

I used my original series called the moon reaper but I guess poppy playtime fandoms are more original than mine lol

@YukkiMonsuta

2 жыл бұрын

>Creativity/Originality Rocky Racoon may be creative to do a backstory, but the characters isnt his in the first place, he uses a characyer from a existing series and its unfair for others who does world building of their characters losing over a helluva boss animation

@sanstheanimator1964

2 жыл бұрын

I participated in the contest even tho i already knew i wasn't going to win lmao But respect to those people who despite having little to no experience on animation but still participated And those who actually put effort into their animations too

I must admit some of them are extremely underrated and need to be recognize more! Thank you for hosting the contest and congratulation to all the winners!

@nragen

2 жыл бұрын

This was indeed a great contest... So many great submissions by so many talented people + your submission was amazing!!

@RockyRakoon

2 жыл бұрын

I was rooting for your work to get that #1. It was really top-notch!

@goodkoko1471

2 жыл бұрын

@@RockyRakoon Agreed!

@kuraizu5722

2 жыл бұрын

@@RockyRakoon congrats on 2nd place Rocky! And Riko Sakari said that they weren't really going to join the contest, that's why they weren't in the top 10. Congrats to you tho! :D

@ShadowWolf-cb3ho

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Cant believe y’all chose the content farm over several talented artists 💀

@minty_starz

Жыл бұрын

Question, what does contact farm mean?

@rumbogumbo4572

Жыл бұрын

@@minty_starz content farms are channels that post large amounts of mostly low quality content to gain the most amount of views possible and therefore get more money

@graceyoung1190

5 ай бұрын

who was the content farm?

@rumbogumbo4572

5 ай бұрын

@@graceyoung1190 the content farm is RockyRacoon, it’s a channel where he post weirdly inappropriate content for children

@graceyoung1190

5 ай бұрын

@@rumbogumbo4572 oh i see it now

AINT NO WAY THAT LOONA ANIMATION GOT SECOND AND STAINEDEGE, SERENITYVOID AND OVERSEER WERE ALL RUNNER UPS WHAT💀💀

@CorelessRex

2 жыл бұрын

AGREED 💀

@seavah2664

2 жыл бұрын

YEAH LIKE H O W 💀

@akakazias8830

2 жыл бұрын

IKR 💀

@akakazias8830

2 жыл бұрын

AND ALSO LITERALLY THAT EMO STORY OF PLACE 4 AND 2, KINDA CRINGE TBH 💀💀

@Wolfydoo

2 жыл бұрын

BRUH ROCKY IS SOMEONE WHO CLICKBAITS KIDS INTO WATCHING 13+ ANIMATIONS OF POPULAR CHARACTERS, HELP

literally all of the runner ups were more creative, better animated, and overall higher quality than second place tf are y'all thinking 😭

@kevinlewis7022

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it's there opinion/choice lmao, but I agree, rocky should of got the middle place, like 4th place or something. Because there was a lot of good animation, espiecally the one made by flicker. I mean Rocky's animations are good, but what he animates is just..

@kevinlewis7022

Жыл бұрын

Aswell to add to that, I don't like the flicker person itself, I just like the dark side animation.

@0quamarin3

Жыл бұрын

roky sexualized mei mei from turning red and the doll from squid game, he should not even be on this

@kayleethurston8084

Жыл бұрын

@@0quamarin3 oh my gosh he did? This was so rigged. I think louxxie should have gotten rocky raccoons place in this or at least mentions :/ she worked so hard and they didnt give a heck.

@0quamarin3

Жыл бұрын

@@kayleethurston8084 he also made racial stereotypes too

It is incredible to see all the creative energy that went into every submission! Absolutely blown away by the artistic approach each one of you took and we are so excited to see this final edit come together. Thank you Sir Fluff, Cloudkid and each one of you that submitted animation!!!

@mattiabinotto2018

2 жыл бұрын

This is my fav song made by you

@mattiabinotto2018

2 жыл бұрын

U have good skills

@elaxiia17

2 жыл бұрын

1000th like also love your music!

@seventysevn

2 жыл бұрын

woah hello!

@LkO3-s

2 жыл бұрын

OMG HI

Just here to add another comment that it's startling how Louxiei's entry did not place. Literally baffling. I agree with many comments that say next time fandom characters should be excluded. Naturally Luna is going to be loved more than someone's OC... and it feels biased, whether that was the intention or not

@Loonlings

Жыл бұрын

Adding on to this, rockie is literally a content farmer

Louxie deserved at least a runner up. She did amazing :(

@Sthir_1905

4 ай бұрын

Agree

im so happy for the winners!!! especially for the underated artists, hope they get more recognition after this 😭 TY again to cloudkid for letting me host a another epic contest!! 🕺💖🕺

@Vsalad

2 жыл бұрын

all of the masterpieces that weve seen in the vid wont happends if u n cloudkid didnt host it :D

@deadmanwalking5506

2 жыл бұрын

So you're the responsible for the winners selection?

@Nolongerusing123

2 жыл бұрын

dont do this again.

@havinafrigginstroke

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! There are so many animators that don’t get much attention. But they are all very good ❤

@milktea6676

2 жыл бұрын

Hey queen ✌️🌟🤩

Is anyone going to talk about Louxie? I'm so disappointed by the judges.

@ran.blue_7082

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! It’s disappointing how Louxie wasn’t even mentioned in this video while people with unoriginal animations were ranked highest. I saw so many amazing animations that deserved to be put in but weren’t.

@kayleethurston8084

Жыл бұрын

Ikr! She put so much time and effort into it and they did not care. She's amazing at animation drawin and everything and they didn't care. :/

@liviwaslost

Жыл бұрын

I’m upset that Rocky beat Stainedge and other more talented animators. He is litterally a content farmer lol.

Incredibly disappointed that Louixie didn't get a spot in this, atleast as a runner up 😕, felt like the runner ups had more heart but Congrats anyway to the winners chosen! Def loved the runner up ones and some of the picked winners esp 5th and 3rd!

@KoiyaEclipse

2 жыл бұрын

:O

@itmemay1796

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing !

@emanuellysheysa3658

Жыл бұрын

❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤🤍🧡🖤❤🤍🤍🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🙈💋💋💋💋💋😤😤😤😤😤😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😡😡😡😡😡☹😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😮😡😥😥

@soggypotatochip

29 күн бұрын

Louixie could've got 2nd place instead of roky raccoon :(

i’m sorry, I just can’t believe that poppy playtime and rocky both got winner places 💀

@arachnidzGrip

Жыл бұрын

why

@duckiidex

Жыл бұрын

@@arachnidzGrip rocky isnt a good person from what ive heard

@wafflelover69420

Жыл бұрын

@@duckiidex what did he do?

@duckiidex

Жыл бұрын

@@wafflelover69420 already answered on the comment i made.

@liviwaslost

Жыл бұрын

@@wafflelover69420 He has sexualized kids a lot and some other sketchy stuff. His audience is also filled with minors that are 12 or younger.

The fact that rocky was second makes me want to tear my eyes out

Dawg you did not say you rated creativity and originality but placed fucking Rocky as second 💀💀 there's almost nothing in that video that they designed.

@t.angelco

2 жыл бұрын

Fr

@kapi3590

2 жыл бұрын

@@GiaIsNotHere I compared the 2 scenes and it's not traced, however they still shouldn't have gotten in along the Huggy one. Pretty unfair imo. Not so sure about the whole minors thing but I'll check it out to see if it's truem

@o.h.6946

2 жыл бұрын

For reallll

@x_jeff

2 жыл бұрын

theres nothing on their entire CHANNEL that they've designed themself and they literally just replicated the art style used in helluva boss to an extreme degree- it's honestly so disappointing

@xylophone_888

2 жыл бұрын

well i mean it had creative arrangements of scenes to music

There is bias in a few of these winners. Animation quality and storytelling should sit higher than "oh hey, I know that character". When the runner ups have noticeably better quality animation and storytelling comparatively, that is a problem.

@snowedinokaly

2 жыл бұрын

When the 2 place guy sent his fans to raid callout posts and posted sketchy content of literal children 🤓🤓🤓

@vixpixii

2 жыл бұрын

@@snowedinokaly sketchy content of children?? 😦😦 I knew they were bad but I didn’t know they were /that/ bad wtf

@snowedinokaly

2 жыл бұрын

@@vixpixii yeah, he posted suggestive content of characters (ex. Poppy from Poppy Playtime) who are kids.

@grqffiti

2 жыл бұрын

@@snowedinokaly YEAH you're not wrong

@snowedinokaly

2 жыл бұрын

@@grqffiti it’s so baffling to me that Rocky won second place. Not even a runner up, SECOND PLACE. SECOND FUCKING PLACE. The plot of the video is about a woman abandoning god to become a furry I CANT

0:48 so are we just not gonna talk about this??? LIKE the movement here is SO SMOOTH

@bedbathandbeyond9763

2 жыл бұрын

Fr tho

@09p48

2 жыл бұрын

FR

i didn't expect to be in the top ten what 😭😭 literally it was such a blast to work on this and I'm so happy for the winners and runner ups, I've also watched most of the submissions i could find and i must say five places just weren't enough!!!! Honored to be a part of the animation meme community and to get to see such wonderful contests and projects come to life!!

@SaffronFire

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!! You se deserved it, your submission was probs one of the best animations I’ve ever seen!!

@nabaat_owl

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats!! You deserved it your visuals were very nice :D

@lacytheespeon517

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats! I was surprised when I saw WoF lol

@DuskfallMoon

2 жыл бұрын

I was really excited to see you make it in this, I love your content and I'm happy the WoF community got thrown in here as well :D

@riflebirb435

2 жыл бұрын

I was so happy when I saw you on this! Congrats! You’re one of the best wof artists here on KZread!! I love your content!

I do admit, I don’t agree with some of the results. However, I do think that everyone who participated did amazing! Congrats to the winners!!

@lias5188

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@Tyranicalroomba

2 жыл бұрын

Especially the loona one it's very basic compared to others

@isabellemenet1914

2 жыл бұрын

I also agreed, some I have seen where more original (in my opinion)

@Tyranicalroomba

2 жыл бұрын

@@isabellemenet1914 also better animated tbh (the ranboo one for example)

@ratties

2 жыл бұрын

Same lmao.. I don't wanna be that guy but there were absolutely more deserving entries, it almost feels rigged 💀

Can we talk about the fact that animators are getting copyright strikes on their channel for animating this song for the contest??? Something really needs to be done about this

There is nothing wrong with making a fan animation about a show/video game. Some of the best animations I seen were fan animations about a show, but I do have to agree this is a bit biased. Making your own story and characters takes more effort and originality, and I feel like more animators should of got recognized for it.

@LivanisStudio

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I saw so may better animations than mine…I didn’t even think about this contest cuz I’m just animating what’s trending, I’m not even a animation meme KZreadr, so this really surprised me in a bad way :(

@0quamarin3

Жыл бұрын

@CoughinCandy he also sexualizd mei mei from turning red

@liviwaslost

Жыл бұрын

@@0quamarin3 and other kid characters.

Um.. How is Louixie's not even mentioned in here? I'm absolutely baffled.

Congrats to the winners!! But I do need to point out that your runner ups should receive the same kind of credits and links as your winners. There is a blatant unfairness between you linking the original videos of the winners and only tagging the runner ups when both parties had their content utilized in this video the same way. Be fair to the runner ups and give them the full credits they deserve.

A bit surprised by these results to be honest, but congrats to the winners

@nobody.6126

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonkuu calling something rigged just because things didn't go your way is very stupid. Is that the only reason you believe this contest was rigged?

@sparky_CLICK_YOU_WONT_REGRET

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, and im really surprised louixies didnt even make it into the runner ups when (not to be rude) was quiet a bit better than a decent amount of these (if any of you guys havent seen it i highly recommend it, they have some really neat ocs and the animation is super smooth) i loved galaxy mews meme but there are def people in here that im quiet suprprised

@virlkor

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonkuu I fully agree too. I loved all the animations in this video and I think all the animators are talented, but I still get the thought that this "competition" is not judging based on actual animation quality which is evident by the amount of entries that made it into this list opposed to others that didn't make it which had significantly higher technical achievements. It's demotivating. What's the point in trying to improve so you can get in the next competition if it's just going to be even more less impressive entries that unfairly got in.

@fireflyfluf7478

2 жыл бұрын

Huggy…wuggy…um

@senordizi1247

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonkuu then again if you think about it (not to be rude) they do mostly encourage underrated animators to step up and participate, giving them a chance

i think that if originality was a selling point for the judging and placing of the animators, original stories should've been prioritized over fan content. don't get me wrong, none of the fan animations are bad (although i am not a huge fan of rocky rakoon for a number of reasons), it's just that it takes so much less creative work to tell a story thats already been told. it makes no sense to me how two fandom pieces made it into the top 5.

@notcharry4622

Жыл бұрын

I agree

I've never felt so disappointed in a contest. Especially for 4th and 2nd place because they weren't really original at all (to me) since they used a character from a popular tv/game series. I think it would be fine if it was their own character with their own story that they made for that tv/game series' universe but it wasn't. I feel there were a couple artists that had more unique storytelling, creativity, and originality that deserved the recognition. Well I think the runner ups were well deserved but 4 & 2 not really smh.

@MistyRat

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that Rocky is a suspected pedophile and a creep.

@RGWUltraFan

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was the Animation Quality, not what it was based on

@frootbythef000t6

Жыл бұрын

@@RGWUltraFan it was mainly based on if the animation was original

@liviwaslost

Жыл бұрын

@@RGWUltraFan in most art contests their animations wouldn’t fly at all. Only because they aren’t original. The judges are very biased.

@odette6761

11 ай бұрын

Tbh, I think Cloudkid is doing most of the judging which sucks If it was just Sir Fluff judging, I bet they would've picked more reasonable winners other than the Poppy Playtime person and Rocky Raccoon

Heeey so first, congrat’ to all the winners, the runners up and the honorable mentions ! And also, thank you for putting me in the honorable mentions 🙏 This was a really interesting contest and I had fun making my animation and watching all the other animations (i made a list of underrated artists, check in the end of my very long comment). Though, there is one thing I would like to point out gently for the organizers of this contest. There are already a lot of comments pointing that out but I want to give my point of view with other words and give suggestions : The rating system and the criterias should be reviewed and modified or better specified. I have things to say about two criterias “Creativity/Originality” and “Emotional Connection/Story” : First, what exactly is creativity and originality for you ? In the context of the animation meme, I can only speculate by myself “creativity is the skill or ability to produce one's own characters, one's own universe, one’s story, one's own concepts, or one's own animation parts that are all new and adapted to the demands of the situation” (thus the conditions of the competition). If that’s the case, theeen… we have some problems with some submissions and you should be guessing what I'm getting at : fan animations. I'm not saying all fan animation should be “banned” from contests, instead, what “kind” of fan animation should be allowed. I understand that it may seem unclear and it may seem difficult to set the boundaries, but I think this is why you should get better specified criteria. Here, example of mine : “You can do fan animation as long as the main character is your OC and has their own story in an already existing universe (TV shows, video games, anime…). But you can't take an already existing character and just represent an already existing story”. This is a small criteria that will at least value the artists who have made efforts and time in creating their own characters and stories. Second, for “Emotional Connection/Story”... this is a more personal point of view for me : “Emotional connection” is a completely different criteria from “Story”. “Emotional connection” is far too subjective, whereas “Story” can be rated in a very objective way (well represented ? Has the artist taken risks with symbolisms ? no superfluous shots or images that add nothing to the story ?...) . For emotional connection, if you want to get the best rate possible, you have to pray that your animation will be seen by a nice judge who will like your animation according to his "connection" and taste. Which is already unfair to the original stories and characters compared to the fan animations from super popular tv shows or video games, like “the judge will prefer the fan animation over the original animation because it’s their fav’ tv show or character”. This is for this reason I understand why some comments are saying it’s “rigged”. So yep, “emotional connection” is not the best criteria. As a suggestion, you should use this criteria for a whole separate category i would call “Fav’ one” (or “Coup de coeur” in french, just meaning you just liked it for whatever reason). This category could be used to valorise any video, even the super underrated ones, regardless of the official criterias (animation quality, creativity and story). So here, you could place the fan animations as you want, it’s just the fav’ one and that doesn't change the actual ranking. Bref, in conclusion, the criteria “creativity/originality” should be redefined in a better way to valorise original stories over fan animations and “emotional connection” should be separated from “story”. I don't know if the cloudkid’s staff will read my long comment, but I just hope they’ll read the people’s opinions and try to improve the contest’s conditions next time. But if they don't change anything and will keep those same unclear criterias… oh well, i guess I can make a simple fan animation of a popular TV show or video game instead of spending 1 week into my OC’s design, 1 week into the storyboard and 2 week into animating the whole thing by sacrificing my sleep hours ! :D (fun fact : i almost choose to make a fan animation of among us, but i ended up choosing my own OCs for the creativity criteria, lol) Last words : don’t hesitate to check the underrated artists ! Here my recommandation list of underrated artists (less than 100k views, not fan animation) : Yellow glass : kzread.info/dash/bejne/ond4rtBxeqmbc5M.html 그을림_GEULIM : kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4SirbyGptytn7Q.html DeceptionVex : kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zpmam8pugpeYoLw.html Isadora Nurdin : kzread.info/dash/bejne/dI19qLVqns-6drg.html owlyghost : kzread.info/dash/bejne/mnmr0biFYdPTnLg.html Ruah: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ga57vJRudLyzpJM.html KLQ Draws : kzread.info/dash/bejne/iWiuraSInKS8p7w.html 냐찌 : kzread.info/dash/bejne/lph1rLd6f9irnbw.html PS : Im french so sorry for any grammar mistake or weird writing style lmao

@littleposies

2 жыл бұрын

This is a really great comment here, I hope the judges read this

@Ruahstuff

2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you for mentioning me in your comment :')

You chose.. the elsa gate animator.. for SECOND PLACE?!

Ironically everyone only took note of who "shouldn't" have won. Only 1 or 2 people seemed to have mentioned it, but 5th place deserved way more love.

@teawithhoney854

Жыл бұрын

they havent even hit 1000 subs oof

@zikozu5788

Жыл бұрын

@@teawithhoney854 Oh yea they did one for Class Clown too but didn’t make it in. Their name is Koiya. They are the nicest person I know and work 12-14 hour days (with chronic tendonitis lol)

@teawithhoney854

Жыл бұрын

@@zikozu5788 ill check them out

@zikozu5788

Жыл бұрын

@@teawithhoney854 radical

@lacytheespeon517

Жыл бұрын

I agree!!!

Excuse me, whaaaaaaaaat- I- …did not expect this honestly I thought there were much better and more original story animations than mine…but thank you very much… But I must admit, as happy as I am, I feel like some of the runner ups and lots of other not mentioned animators were better than me ngl🥴 I don’t even typically make animation memes so this really surprised my,,, I think there a wayyyy better animations that the serve my place instead tbh 💀

@MaisieTheBlindHen

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!!!!!! 🎊🎉 yours was incredible!!!

@cursedshorts5617

2 жыл бұрын

Love Ur Animation very much tho

@FireAngel5talons

2 жыл бұрын

Yours was so terrifying that it was amazing

@VeryMidArt_Tehe

2 жыл бұрын

Ah,yes. Yes,your Poppy Playtime animations are immaculate.

How did that Loona one get so high when it's just rigging, no creativeness or originality, and no story that's their own at all? At least the Poppy Playtime one had nice frame by frame animation and unique storytelling despite not being their own original story. I hate to be that guy genuinely but it feels very rigged somehow and not at all fair to the people who put weeks of hard work into actual creative a labor intensive animation and not just rigging a character from a show. (and since someone wants to whine about it, having a character move their hips a bit on a rig is not comparable to actual story telling using frame by frame animation, sorry.) I don't think only the most popular entries should be counted but some great examples like everyone else is saying are Louixie and Riko's, but also animations like those from Graphlc Glnger, Fyrtrix Tizi, Pepper Conpanna, FazFuri, Cyan .Y, and Rainsryu that were honestly very deserving. At least if someone sees this comment go check out the animators I listed, they're incredible and deserve more recognition. I was so excited for these results it's such a shame this feels like such a biased and rushed result.

@GweenOfTea

2 жыл бұрын

clearly you dont know how hard tweening can be, multiple parts of the hair alone look rigged let alone other parts, stop underminding artists because YOU don't like a certain way animation is done, it still takes a LOT of work to animate not to mention the background, coloring and other small detail that goes into art and animation. This is such a terrible take. It irks me so hard when assumingly non-artists or at the least non-animators comes in with this stupid frame by frame purist mindset, this is literally JUST as bad as saying "Art isn't REAL art if it isn't realism" and I can tell you right now a lot of the other artists youre bigging up would be super disappointed at your take too.

@_kaleido

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t have anything to say about your other points but tweened/rigged animation is just as valid as other kinds of animation.

@bedbathandbeyond9763

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Rocky uses rigged puppets. Nothing wrong with that ofc, it’s used in the industry a lot to keep everything clean and smooth. I think that they do a really good job with their stuff, but I’ve also seen a few entries that were more detailed and had more creative stories. I was keeping an eye on the entries that were pouring in and I saw quite a few that were absolutely incredible. This meme brought a lot of new animators to my attention and I’m happy about that, but it also raised my expectations for the winners so I was a little disappointed with the results.

@ratties

2 жыл бұрын

@@GweenOfTea But I am an artist and an animator.. lol. Have been for 11 years. I don't know why you're hammering on that point when it isn't at all the main point of contention in my original comment, I just mentioned they aren't really on the same level in that particular case. Flicker's is a great example of how rigging is done right with unique scenes and original storytelling. I'm not affiliated with those animators obviously and if me just mentioning them would be oh so offensive then so be it. Others in the comment section have mentioned how they wish their favorite animator should have won, I only mentioned these animators because they're ones I have found through this competition that I believe deserved more recognition. You're demonizing me for offhandedly mentioning the type of animation and projecting that onto others that I mentioned for completely unrelated reasons. It really is not that deep.

@ratties

2 жыл бұрын

@@bedbathandbeyond9763 That's pretty much exactly how I feel, I only mentioned those animators in my original comment because I found them through this competition. It's not like I'm hating on the entries that won, it's more of a don't hate the player hate the game kinda thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Tis what it tis at the end of the day.

WHHHHH- I am blown away!!! Thank you so very much for everything, this means so much to me. Congratulations to everyone!!!! All of the entries that I have gotten to see have been absolutely spectacular - and thank you so much for hosting this awesome contest!

@lacytheespeon517

2 жыл бұрын

Found you

@KoiyaEclipse

2 жыл бұрын

@@lacytheespeon517 LACCCCYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

@ItsJustMortem

2 жыл бұрын

HECK YEAH!!!

@KoiyaEclipse

2 жыл бұрын

@@ItsJustMortem MORTTTTT, HECK YEEEEEEE DUDE!!!!!!

M going to be honest there are some things wrong here: ( I’m gonna get hate) 1. The second place and fourth place winner break the creativity that the judges wanted. Both of the animations seem to based off a show/video game and the story and characters aren’t theirs ( I’ve seen that wolf girl everywhere) What I think should have happened? If these were REALLY to the judges liking, I think they should be runner ups

Congrats to all the winners! I had a lot of fun participating in this and getting some more animation practice in. Though I do agree with most of the comments. The judging and ranking for some of these animations seems unfair. Perhaps you could rethink your ranking system in the future? ^^;

I think it's unfair for everyone to judge the quality of the entries because at the end of the day, these are individual animators who took time to make something unique and something above their own standards. [Criticism stops being criticism when its unwanted and deconstructive.] However, it is questionable about how the entries were judged. Of all the original storytelling and visuals in each of the entries- two of the ones that won were fan animations of popular characters with established stories. It feels like there was some biased judging for the animations with already liked characters- which is ultimately unfair for those who've used their own original characters and lore. I'm unsure on who or how many the judges were for this contest but it feels like there were very few animators actually judging this contest. If so, then it doesn't make sense to host an animation contest when judges can't accurately judge the entries [and do not say the chef's analogy, not everybody is able to judge art in an artist's perspective.] Maybe for the next contest [whenever that happens] could a rule be added that only original stories by the animators could the used? So that everybody has an equal playing field. And to clarify: I'm not attacking the two animators for making their entries huggy wuggy and helluvaboss [neither should anyone else] I'm only criticizing how the contest was ran

@akakazias8830

2 жыл бұрын

Thats so right!

@_RainbowMayhem_

2 жыл бұрын

That's how I felt too thank you!!!

@DJDarkStarKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like they should be remove from their placement and replace, or at least the person who host it does a recount or smth, its ridiculous and hurt

@ItsMinnowSeason

2 жыл бұрын

late but the loona one wasn't even really- unique or original, at least not compared to the entires before and after it- Even the poppy playtime had so much more to it originality wise just with how the artist presented each and every scene instead of going with what Sir Fluff had as a platform. At least with the whole chorus part, but even the story itself didn't have much to it other than "holy woman wants to be a furry". I love the animation on its own but with its placement compared to the runner-ups, you can tell a bias was there- there was no originality and unique-ness to feel a connection to compared to the extremely interesting, original storylines they showed they'd considered.

@serpisgoinginsane3609

2 жыл бұрын

@@ItsMinnowSeason + There wasn’t even that much animating, it was all rigging, which, I get is hard but definitely not as hard as hand animation.

Congrats to all winners and to those who joined the contest! Even if you didn't win that doesn't make you any less of an artist. :) Keep striving! ✨ Huge thanks to Sir Fluff, CloudKid and Neoni for this opportunity! And I deeply appreciate being a part of the runner ups. 🙏🖤

I love how most people here agree Rocky should not have come that high up.

Both the winners and the participants were great! We're happy to participate in this competition. It was fun making it! we hope to see you with great animation in the future! Good luck!

Regarding all the criticism and comments, i think the best solution for all of this is to divide the contest into 2 categories. Each artists who submits their memes can pick either of the two. One should be for beginner artist, while the others are for experienced (there should be specific criteria for both so artists can know which one they should choose) Cause its kinda unbalanced if its all mixed. For example, a hobbyist animator with a cheap software and mouse won't stand a chance to someone who already has a display tablet, toonboom, and 6+ years of animation experience.

@lacytheespeon517

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that's actually interesting, I think that's a good idea! I different idea that could be used in tandem or on its own would be to have a separate category between fan animation and original characters, because that specific thing seems to be upsetting a lot of people in the comments as well

@virlkor

2 жыл бұрын

A hobbyist animator with cheap software and hardware can still make something with the same or higher quality as someone with more years of experience and uses a display tablet and more expensive software. It comes down to skill, talent, and how quickly you can learn.

@lacytheespeon517

2 жыл бұрын

@@virlkor yeah, that's true. It's not the software, it's how you use it. I still agree that the categories would be a good idea, though, like you could choose an experience level, "beginner" or "advanced" etc

@3amhellbeast

2 жыл бұрын

@@virlkor As someone that used to be part of the animation community 10+ years ago and learned how to animate with MS Paint, Windows Movie Maker, and a mouse (and seeing so many other people make incredible stuff with just those two free softwares), I stand by this comment 😂

To every animator that joined this and didn't get a mention: Don't be down! You'll have other chances, what matters is that you tried and had fun doing it, perhaps, someday you can be a winner!

@bedbathandbeyond9763

2 жыл бұрын

Aww

@FireAngel5talons

11 ай бұрын

I was honestly happy joining because it was my first animation meme ever (then literally a week later I made my own original lol)

@danisdoodles

11 ай бұрын

@@FireAngel5talons great to know! My entry was one of my firsts to be storyboarded and shaded, it turned out a bit cringe at the end but I enjoyed my time too :] defo learned a lot during it

@FireAngel5talons

11 ай бұрын

@@danisdoodles same I have since made a bunch more animation memes, still basic but there is improvement

@danisdoodles

11 ай бұрын

@@FireAngel5talons checked out your channel and yeah, it's pretty nice stuff! :]

Congrats to everyone who participated! I saw a comment mentioning this earlier but I do think i future there should be a rule that the thing someone is animating should be a character they own. Fandom OCs I feel are fine but I feel like...its kind of a cope out to do a Fandom Character?? I Dunno this isn't me bashing anyone here I just think in future since you ARE judging Animations based on its story as well, it should be a story the artist made not that someone else made,

Everyone done well even if I don't agreed with the results Like, for the originality, taking animation meme with characters the animator don't own and saying the entries are judged by "originality" it seem like a joke. Even if they are not only judged on that, if you look at other entries, I'm pretty sure you will disagree Even if everyone did well, I think that there is a problem in the classement But still, congrats everyone

I say congratulations to those who got into the runner ups and the winners! Though the results are disappointing considering two stories are not the animator's original works to begin with, unless it's a very well thought off AU. What happened to the creativity/originality ranking part on that?

@grqffiti

2 жыл бұрын

take rocky racoon for example heluva boss is a very popular fandom and rocky using loona was unfair bc almost everyone knows loona from heluva boss

@littleposies

2 жыл бұрын

I feel bad to those who sacrificed their sleeping schedule, pouring as much originality as they can with their own story and characters, only to be met with this result... I really hope they don't allow fan animation entries in next time (Fan OCs like the WoF one are fine).

@YukkiMonsuta

2 жыл бұрын

@Zphoenix Animations i think its not traced, his art style MAY look like from helluva boss but its still looks different from the original series'

@kapi3590

2 жыл бұрын

@@YukkiMonsuta He traced the church from one episode lol, they definetly would trace her

@LivanisStudio

2 жыл бұрын

Hey just wanna say I actually didn’t care about this contest or winning, I just joined because I thought poppy playtime would fit the song and I animate things that are trending, I don’t even make animation memes at all, this was an exception…and honestly I’m also hella surprised why I’m 4th place, I literally saw sooooo many other beautiful entries that deserved to be in my place…but then again, I’m really sorry, I didn’t have any control over their decision..

Credits in Vid: 0:01 Sir Fluff 0:10 Eldragonis 0:18 Teggy 0:35 Stainedge 0:44 SerenityVoid 0:53 x0verseer 1:06 KoiyaEclipse 1:19 Livani 1:41 Flicker 1:52 Rocky Rakoon 2:10 Galaxy Mew

@SpadeyBoah

2 жыл бұрын

1:41 this one aged

How the hell did that Loona animation get 2nd place and Louixe didn’t even get to be a runner-up 💀

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS! honestly came to see if Flicker got a place and they did! They worked so hard for this and really hoped for a win so im glad! Anyways all those entries are amazing, i could never do these kind of animation.

@o.h.6946

2 жыл бұрын

Flicker should be at least the 2nd place honestly

Thank you so much!!! Everyone put so much hard work into their submissions. Loved watching as many as I could over this month and onwards.

I feel the way that the credits are given is a bit unfair, why aren't you also linking to the runner ups videos too? Kinda weird just seeing how normally if u used anyones content you would link back to it, but here it's okay not to? Idk I'm disappointed but hoping it was an oversight.

I'm happy for those who won, but fan animations should not have been permitted imo.

Ngl I’d say flicker’s was the best but lol I’ve got a half-life fan bias

@icee_doo2249

2 жыл бұрын

Omg you literally just described my mindset with this contest, high five :D

Meanwhile louixie's crowsong one: let me in, LET ME IN Sir fluff(no offense but yes): no, i dont think i will

@clorgborg

Жыл бұрын

FR

@Cowboy-crown

9 ай бұрын

Finally a man of culture

Congratulations to the winners and everyone who participated! It was fun to enter the contest again and to see so many submissions! Thank you so much for hosting it 💖

Congratulations to the winners!! All of the Darkside animation meme entries I’ve watched are so wonderful and amazing! Because of this contest I’ve found loads of new talented and underrated animators to support! Thank you Cloudkid, Sir Fluff and Neoni for hosting this, it was an honour to get the chance to take part! ^^

OMG MY PAL TEGGY GOT RUNNER UP IM SO HAPPY!!! Thank yall for the chance for me at joining the contest! It was really fun and it taught me more about animating! I hope they're more to come!💖💖💖

@Teggy

2 жыл бұрын

My mind was really blown fr. Glad to see you joined as well, you did a great job.✨

@PrettyYukiTheArtist

2 жыл бұрын

@@Teggy Aww thank you sm! 💖

This was a really fun contest to be a part of, thanks again CloudKid, Neoni, and Sir Fluff for this opportunity! Congrats to the winners!!

Congratz to the winners! This contest made me feel encouraged to push out my very first animation meme and Im super happy for that! I learned SO MUCH about animation and the program I decided to use through this experience. Thanks for this! This was incredible! Better luck next round everyone!

@FireAngel5talons

2 жыл бұрын

Same. This was my first animation meme as well

@velveteenrabbit5940

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonkuu Thanku!

@Nreb_Ton

Жыл бұрын

Congrats but the places were not fair tbh

My opinion from the hundreds of videos I’ve seen I think yellow k9/ Riko sakari/ louixie should be in the top. Don’t get me wrong,I love these animations but I don’t believe looped videos without story should win

That was a really cool contest, congratulations to everyone who participated ^•^ ! I watched a lot of those animations and there are so many talented people that deserve to be seen, so I recommend everyone to look at other animations that aren’t in this video, you may find new artists that you’ll love

Thank you CloudKid for hosting such a fun contest and letting us monetize our videos! I hope to see even more animation meme contests in the future. I love seeing all the creativity and originality that come from these types of videos. Congrats to the winners!!

Wow!! Everyone did so amazing!! Each one is so incredible! It's crazy how talented these people are. Congratulations to everyone who participated!! And everyone who was mentioned!

Congrats to everyone who competed, you’re all still talented dedicated animators, no matter what place! Everyone did incredible, bravo!! 👏👏🎉🎉

Eee it was super fun to compete! Congrats to all the winners and runner-ups, these are incredible! ✨❤️

so glad I entered this contest even though I didn't make the top 10 I'm so glad to see those I looked up to made the list I'll try better next time if there's a chance to get my name out there! way to go winners!!

@eternalerror_404

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to make the top 10 for visibility as well, so I guess we both have to do even better next time! :)

@katattack5793

2 жыл бұрын

Same! This just shows that we can still improve and that one day we can hopefully get to the level these people are at 🤩

congratulations to all the winners, they are all very talented!! thank you for hosting these contests with the opportunity to win different prizes! This contest definitely pushed me beyond my limits when it came to animating different scenes but I had a lot of fun! :D

no WAY you made the creep 2nd place 💀Rocky doesn't deserve that

Even as an honorable mention I’m so happy! Thank you so much! Congrats to all the animators featured and mentioned, you all are amazing!!!

Congratulations 4 all the winners! This is so amazing and thx to host this amazing contest ^^

FLICKER OH MY GOD CONGRATS

I’m so proud of everyone who participated! Everyone did so well and I personally really enjoyed this competition!

Congrats to all the winners! It was so fun to join this and i hope the winners the best of successes in the future! They all worked their asses off and it shows! ❤️❤️❤️

These are all utterly phenomenal! Even those who didn’t win were incredible as well. Keep up the great work, everyone!

Congrats to all the winners! Entering this contest was awesome to see how people would do!

Congrats to the winners ! They all do super amazing, including the rest of the participants . I have a lot of fun doing mine, thank you CloudKid once again for hosting another wonderful animation meme contest !

This was a super fun contest to be a part of! Congratulations to all who placed, and I look forward to participating in more animation meme contests in the future!

Congrats to the winners and all the participants! Everyone involved did an incredible job!

YOOOO OMG THESE ARE AMAZING XD however it’s sad that some other amazing ones didn’t make it. BUT THANK TOU FOR THE HONORABLE MENTIONS LOVE YOU GUYS SOOOOOO MUCH

Flickers new upload is lookin snazzy.

Awe man louixie wasnt in...

@thenyan3095

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Her entry had really cool imagery and really cool looking black shading ://

Congrats to all the winners!! It was really interresting to participate again!

*CONGRATS TO EVERYONE!! ALL THE ANIMATIONS ARE AMAZINGGGG!!* 😩✨ Honestly, I'm so glad I took part in this little contest (even if I didn't make it here, I still had lots of fun making the animation) I believe everyone that took part in this did an outstanding job!! I understand how hard it must've been picking the best ones.. Like, literally ALL the darkside animations I've seen (and I've seen *many* of them) had the same level of talent! They're all so equally good that it's insane how many talented people exist!! *(don't pay attention to my awful english btw.. lmao)*

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and the other participants🤩🤩🤩 AMAZING WORK😍😍

Everyone did so well :O Even if I didn't get into the video, it was still a lot of fun making the animation!!

tbh some of these runner ups are bettee than the winners but good job guys!

It was a pleasure to participate! Congratulations to all the winners!! ^^✨

Congrats to winners and other participants! Though I didn't get in the video I'm still happy I took part in the contest :) everyone did a great job.

Yesss congrats to all the artists!! I was obsessed with Flicker's animation (I'm a shameless Half-life fan), I'm so glad they got top 3!

@Wolfydoo

2 жыл бұрын

Same!! I was so happy they’re so underrated :,)

@SpadeyBoah

2 жыл бұрын

That kinda aged...

@Wolfydoo

2 жыл бұрын

aged like spoiled milk

I dont agree with 2nd and 4th place because they used characters that dont even belong to them

@seavah2664

2 жыл бұрын

exactly- some of the runner-ups could've easily replaced the second one which honestly doesn't look the best nor is it as creative as literally any of the runner-ups. I think the fourth place one could've been a runner up but I guess it is just the judge's fav game/shows that get the higher ranking

Sad I didn't make the honorable mentions but everyone on the list absolutely deserved their spot!! This was such a fun competition to be a part of ^^ Congrats everyone!

Ayyy congrats who won in this contest :D Im glad they get to win this and they really deserve it ^^ 💙

Good job to everyone who participated !! This was really fun! The winners are really underated, those animations are stunning ✨ I still have a lot to do in order to get on their levels, but I'm gonna get there eventually. I can't wait for another contest! This was my first one and i will forever remember it and every creator that participated! 💜💜💜

Flicker, oh gosh.

This is amazing!! Congrats to all the winners💖👏👏

So no one is talking about how good they manage to cut all the memes together and made so smooth with all the others? It took me a while to know that they were cut in to continue the lyric and it made a very professional and satisfying video to watch

How tf is Flicker on 3rd place instead of that 2nd place it's an effin joke honestly.

@seavah2664

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY HOW IS tHAt BETTER THAN ANY OF THE RUNNERUPS/FLICKER?

@o.h.6946

2 жыл бұрын

@@seavah2664 I mean I dunno much about animation memes (I'm here just because I wanna see inspiring animations), but god dang a person with common sense should be able to see why 2nd place should place way lower instead. Objectively speaking, the characters are just a fan art, boring trope, super unoriginal animation style. Really now, judges? Definitely rigged

@DARKNESS-jm2cz

2 жыл бұрын

i mean the 2nd place animation is nice to look at i guess but it doesn’t win against full hand drawn animations.

@o.h.6946

2 жыл бұрын

@@DARKNESS-jm2cz Yeah nice to look at doesn't equal good. dude it's the most basic thing ever with an unoriginal fanart and mid storyline :")))) they dont even try to be in sync with the music or whatsoever

I’m still pretty new to animation for the most part, it was super cool to be a part of such a big contest with so many other artists! I feel like a part of something lol

Aggg these are all so good!! Everyone did so well

So glad to participate in this and see these amazingly talented artists! Happy to share that my Darkside meme became my most popular video and earned me over 300+ subscribers in the span of 2 days! :D thank you so much, keep up the great work guys 💗💗

I just saw the winners and i really liked the animations! I know i couldnt get to first 10 and honorable mentions but i dont really mind, at least i got better at animation lmaoo congrats to all winners!! yall did an amazing job 💕💖💖

Although I haven’t seen any of my favorites in the winners list, I’m still proud of all the contestants, congratulations to the winners!

THIS IS AMAZING!! SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS ARE SO UNDERRATED AAA

WOAH THOSE ARE AMAZING! Can't wait for the next contest to participate on!