# Suggestions for future challenges
**URL:** https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214
**Category:** Challenges
**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214 "2008-08-21T18:23:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@pixelgeek](https://forums.synfig.org/u/pixelgeek)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/1 "2008-08-21T18:23:13Z")
because people keep mentioning them, and if I don’t write them down I forget them…
repeating motion/incredible machine
Dragons
How realistic can you get? (e.g. Genete’s sailboat)
Falling snow
What happens in front of examples/backdrop.sifz?
‘La Linea’ type animation - character made from a bline
Graphics for the synfig wiki/website (e.g. download icons, etc) - which ones?
“Cuteness overload” (thanks rore)
Motion blur
Abstract ‘powerpoint’ type slide backgrounds
Recreate your favourite movie scene.
Combining animation and video capture - like [youtube.com/watch?v=95I8NKE8\_YQ&NR=1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95I8NKE8_YQ&NR=1) or Jedi’s pencil.
- A candle in the wind (by night hopefully)
- Car on a bumpy road from the side
- Dancing skeleton
- Electric spark (High voltage)
- Flying letters
flying bird
draw/animate something from your town, or close to it
To animate a character that lifts some heavy object.
Feel free to add to the thread and I’ll summarize at the top.
Chris
Done - Looping background
Done - Every single layer in one picture
Done - Stick figure animation - like Evilkillerfiggin’s
Done - Bouncing ball
Done - Spaceships/Aliens
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### Author:  [@evilkillerfiggin](https://forums.synfig.org/u/evilkillerfiggin)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/2 "2008-09-26T20:20:31Z")
I can definitely recommend stickman animations - they’re great fun and something those of us with short attention spans actually have a hope in hell of finishing.
But I have an observation: rather than simply saying you have to include an alien or spaceship, other such challenges (like the BWC for blender users) give you a theme or sentence to start from, which you can take in any direction you want. Eg, the BWC this year was ‘A Moment in Time’. I spectacularly failed to make an entry ;\_;
The other option is to restrict how you’re allowed to do it - eg, the one about only using circles, or Only using silhouettes/stickmen. Both these methods let the participants put their own slant on the contest.
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### Author:  [@Genete](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Genete)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/3 "2008-09-26T22:03:43Z")
The “use only” challenge was already done. Circles was the theme.
I have a suggestion:
Create a looping background. This is a common task like the walk cycle and should let the intermediate users to test their skills.
-G
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### Author:  [@Gerco](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Gerco)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/4 "2008-09-27T11:35:24Z")
How about a short “La Linea” style animation?
- [http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0406432/](http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0406432/)
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La\_Linea\_(TV\_series)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Linea_(TV_series))
- [http://www.serienoldies.de/main/picture\_show.php?id=238&pic\_id=1417](http://www.serienoldies.de/main/picture_show.php?id=238&pic_id=1417)
G.
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### Author:  [@pabs](https://forums.synfig.org/u/pabs)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/5 "2008-10-02T09:59:35Z")
Should we make a wiki page about this?
I’d like to see some challenge involving motion blur or one of the other blurs.
Another one might be to use every single layer type in one image.
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### Author:  [@vonHalenbach](https://forums.synfig.org/u/vonHalenbach)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/6 "2009-02-18T04:00:18Z")
- A candle in the wind (by night hopefully)
- Bouncing ball
- Car on a bumpy road from the side
- Dancing skeleton
- Electric spark (High voltage)
- Flying letters
- A Pencil (magically) writing a Letter
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### Author:  [@rore](https://forums.synfig.org/u/rore)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/7 "2009-04-30T20:03:00Z")
Something from [redwhirlpool.com/3CH/3ch\_web.php](http://www.redwhirlpool.com/3CH/3ch_web.php)😈 
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### Author:  [@Genete](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Genete)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/8 "2009-07-12T13:31:49Z")
I propose a new splash screen for September. I would like to do it before but I guess that a lot of people will be on vacations during August.
I plan to do a new release ASAP. 🙂
-G
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### Author:  [@Rafael](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Rafael)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/9 "2009-10-06T10:41:11Z")
Draw/animate a popular song.
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### Author:  [@rore](https://forums.synfig.org/u/rore)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/10 "2009-10-23T11:28:57Z")
Write a Synfig tutorial 😉 (preferably about a barely documented feature / including a barely documented feature)
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### Author:  [@headsquatter](https://forums.synfig.org/u/headsquatter)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/11 "2010-01-12T14:32:06Z")
hy on this link to the post where I add my propousal to have a Vimeo Group and Channel on Vimeo,
[[Synfig in web 2.0](https://forums.synfig.org/t/synfig-in-web-2-0/752/1))
while writing I tought could be great to have a contest to realize the Synfig Banner or Header for the Vimeo-group.
The topic I think should be open source and community ( Synfig and the web 2.0 group).
From the uploaded amterial we could aniway refresh the archive with some new banner-images to promote the software.
ciao Alice aka Head Squatter
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### Author:  [@steffinger](https://forums.synfig.org/u/steffinger)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/12 "2010-03-05T12:06:01Z")
I think it’s already march and there should be a challenge this month. My Idea was a challenge for a turning face. From Side to front. I don’t really know if this makes sense, but it would be interesting if somebody finds a smart solution for this problem.
What do you think? Any better propositions?
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### Author:  [@Genete](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Genete)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/13 "2010-03-05T12:17:36Z")
> [@steffinger](#):
>
> I think it’s already march and there should be a challenge this month. My Idea was a challenge for a turning face. From Side to front. I don’t really know if this makes sense, but it would be interesting if somebody finds a smart solution for this problem.
>
> What do you think? Any better propositions?
I vote for that too!
-G
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### Author:  [@Genete](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Genete)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/14 "2010-03-11T12:27:56Z")
Create some cartoon flame effect:
[lostmarble.com/forum/viewtop … 8522#88522](http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=88522#88522)
😉
-G
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### Author:  [@berteh](https://forums.synfig.org/u/berteh)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/15 "2010-04-16T09:01:19Z")
> [@Genete](#):
>
> Create some cartoon flame effect:
> [lostmarble.com/forum/viewtop … 8522#88522](http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=88522#88522)
> 😉
> -G
- 1 for the flame.
I’d propose a music video: pick any tune legally available (eg from [ccmixter.org/playlist/browse/5491](http://ccmixter.org/playlist/browse/5491)) and let your imagination flow on the melody.
Berteh.
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### Author:  [@Genete](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Genete)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/16 "2010-04-28T12:42:23Z")
quiet lipsync game!
[viewtopic.php?p=5867#p5867](http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5867#p5867)
-G
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### Author:  [@H13N.H3N](https://forums.synfig.org/u/H13N.H3N)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/17 "2010-06-25T15:17:54Z")
how about ‘Particle Challenge’? it’s pretty fun play with particles and many things can be done with them, flames, rains, snow, mist, grass, smoke, numbs, crazy effects, fishes, bees, mosquitoes and so
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### Author:  [@Vinsy](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Vinsy)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/18 "2011-04-05T18:35:46Z")
lighting effects! i would like to see how people makes their character look shaded or how they would illuminate an scene with fake lights
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### Author:  [@darkhog](https://forums.synfig.org/u/darkhog)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/19 "2011-06-09T11:06:34Z")
Dragon animation, I’d say.
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### Author:  [@eldruin](https://forums.synfig.org/u/eldruin)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/suggestions-for-future-challenges/214/20 "2012-02-24T13:52:27Z")
Hello!
I’d say it would be a good way to attract more people to the forum if we publicized the challenges more broadly (at least the ones for splash images or so). Maybe in some other forums like any from [https://www.google.com/search?q=animation+forum](https://www.google.com/search?q=animation+forum) or some anime forums.
I don’t know if they would consider that spam, but I’m sure there is people hanging out around there who would enjoy joining our challenges but just don’t know about them.
Thoughts?