AnimChallenge
MINICHALLENGE | Walk Cycle Challenge
This Challenge's Mentor Is...
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This challenge is organized on our discord server
Winners of the Walk Cycle Challenge will be announced in Discord
Join DiscordABOUT ANIMCHALLENGE
AnimChallenge is a regularly-scheduled animation competition that allows animators to challenge
themselves and improve their skills with creative prompts and friendly-competition. Started in
2019, AnimChallenge has gone through many evolutions, first starting as a monthly challenge,
then partnering with Agora to scale up the challenges and offer studio-level assets for the
challenges, and now, evolving into a format of smaller, shorter challenges with a couple of
large scale challenges throughout the year. AnimChallenge has always kept it fun and creative,
and we’re excited to keep that going in the years to come!
Frequently Asked Questions
This depends on the challenge! Right now, our Mini AnimChallenges can be submitted in the #submissions channel in our Discord Server. However, there will be challenges in the future where your submission will be made through the website. You’ll know where to submit via the submit button on the AnimChallenge page of the agora.community website.
Any animation that is over the duration specified for the challenge will automatically be rejected by the server. Even if it’s one frame over. However, you are free to use however many frames per second as you wish as long as your animation isn’t over the stated duration.
If you are having trouble accessing the AnimChallenge Discord channels, you may not have selected the correct role. Roles can be selected in the #rules-and-about channel, or you select them upon joining the server.
Physical prizes are created and dispatched through a 3rd party source. It can take 1-3 months for prizes to be delivered. If after 3 months you have not yet received your package, please reach out to us at info@agora.studio. By providing your email address and phone number, we can make sure that you receive delivery notifications from the dispatch company. Please note, we are not responsible for any missing or damaged items unless physically sent by us.
Digital prizes will be coordinated with you through the email address you provide, or through your Discord server account.
Digital prizes will be coordinated with you through the email address you provide, or through your Discord server account.
The 3rd party creation and delivery source will ship to almost anywhere in the world, however depending on your country, you may be asked to pay import fees by your country’s postal service.
If the challenge requires you to submit via the website, we have a manual approval process so please allow 24-48 hours for your shot to be reviewed and accepted.
If you need to submit your animation through Discord, any messages received after the advertised deadline will not be taken into consideration.
If you need to submit your animation through Discord, any messages received after the advertised deadline will not be taken into consideration.
You may submit your shot until the deadline determined by the countdown timer on the AnimChallenge page on the Agora.Community website.
Please make sure you leave yourself time in the challenge to export your shot and submit it where required. Once the deadline has ended you will not be able to update your submission.
There have been rare cases where the time zone has changed during the challenge and caused an inconsistency with the deadline, in these circumstances, we may accept late submissions.
Please make sure you leave yourself time in the challenge to export your shot and submit it where required. Once the deadline has ended you will not be able to update your submission.
There have been rare cases where the time zone has changed during the challenge and caused an inconsistency with the deadline, in these circumstances, we may accept late submissions.
Sometimes we create rigs exclusively for the month of the challenge or have an agreement with external artists to only host during the challenge. If you no longer see the rig on the website, it is no longer available for the reasons stated above.
The use of AI created assets may be accepted, but we highly discourage the use of AI generated video. Voting happens by a team of professional artists and it is at their discretion if AI content is considered in their decision.
Having people assist you in the challenge is ok, as long as the animation created is 100% your own.
Here are a list of allowances
And a list of of things you aren’t allowed to have a assistance with
Here are a list of allowances
- Rigging
- Modeling
- Texturing
- Character Design
- Voice Acting
And a list of of things you aren’t allowed to have a assistance with
- Animation
- 2D Assets like backgrounds
- Special Effects (2D or 3D)
- Rendering
- Compositing
- Lighting
- Sound Design