Years ago Black Plasma Studios created the Halo machinima Cone Combat, which inspired the Machinination Cone Competition, which we entered with Cone Combat II and won first place.
In honor of that victory, we decided to host our own first Halo machinima competition with the same concept!
Objective:
Create a short (five minute maximum) Halo machinima which features a cone, or cones in some way. Any genre can be taken.
Engine:
All Halo games will be accepted and judged equally!
Submission:
Submit your machinimas by posting a link to your video in the official Cone Competition Thread. Any submissions through other means will not be accepted.
Deadline:
January 31st is the final day for submissions! On the morning of February 1st we will go through and collect all submissions for judging.
Winners will be announced on February 7th.
Rewards:
1st Place: Video & Website Announcement, Website Homepage spotlight, Channel box
2nd Place: Video & Website Announcement
3rd Place: Video & Website Announcement
We will release a video on BPS announcing all three winners, and thus each person will have their channel and winning entry linked in the video. There will also be a website announcement for the winners for more publicity.
The first place winner also will receive a unique website homepage post specifically about that person’s channel and winning entry, as well as having their channel added to the BPS subscriptions box on our YouTube homepage.
You can also Tweet your entry to @BlackPlasmaYT for us to Retweet in order for more publicity!
Judging:
The entries will be judged by a mix of BPS machinima crew members as well as Halo machinima fans from the community. We will be judging all aspects of the machinima, however the most important part is the concept you chose and how well you executed it.
We understand that there is always going to be bias in competitions like these, which again is why we urge you to do it out of fun and not just for the rewards. Read the next section for more information.
Goals:
This competition is not designed to be taken too seriously. Our goals are to:
1) Get the Halo machinima community motivated to work on some machinimas again.
2) Connect with the existing Halo machinima community.
3) Promote the BPS website.
4) To have fun!
The idea is this is something that you could easily put together in a weekend and still have a good chance of winning as long as you had a good idea and put it together well- that is why we have the five minute maximum limit. We don’t want people spending forever on something and becoming upset if they lose and feel like they wasted their time. That is also why none of our rewards are physical- it’s literally about the experience and having fun!
If you have questions, please post in the Cone Competition Discussion thread, not the entry thread.
We look forward to seeing your submissions!
I would love to make one, but as i don’t have any film making items required, i cannot do it
what console do you have? I have a 360 and I can help you out.
I can also help you out, I have a capture card
Well how much of a significance must the cone have? Because I honestly have an idea I’ve had for a while that I want to do but a cone wouldn’t be a problem to randomly put in. But if the cone has to be absolutely the focus, I have to start over.
Well, you can’t just “show a cone” briefly in an unrelated story. We meant “featuring a cone” as if it was the significant plot point of the story or character.
We have been trying to upload but we have been having some rendering issues and are trying our best, we would really appreciate if you were lenient on the upload time, because we may end up being an hour or two after midnight, Sorry and thank you!