Views : 38,875
Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Premiered Dec 3, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.966 (28/3,253 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-12T22:06:55.231214Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I have definitely had at least one mildly antagonistic host...
This was a beginner's friendly MAP, but it was more of a AMV than regular animation, and I didn't really (and still don't) know how to do smooth slides and transitions in my program of choice, and mine were clearly hand tweaned. The host didn't care for it and asked me to change it, and I asked if they knew how to do it either in my program or another free program, and they just straight up never answered me.
Eventually I literally took the art to Windows Movie Maker, put it in one of those awful stock slide animations, took THAT video and cut it down to the part I needed and spliced it into the animation as if it were all made in the same program.
The MAP never got posted, and I believe a few others were having similar issues, and I know a couple people dropped out AFTER having finished their parts because the quality wasn't good or they didn't know how to do what was being asked of them.
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So MY addition to the Do's and Don'ts:
If you're going to host a beginner-friendly MAP -
DO make sure the participants you choose are capable of what you're planning on asking them, or if you can't be too picky about participants,
DON'T be surprised/upset if the parts are not perfect. It's beginner-friendly. Please, not everyone knows everything yet. Beginner-friendly isn't just a term to throw in there so you get more applicants.
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Piece of advice: Ask your participants to add some extra frames at the beginning and end of the parts, just in case they/you cut their audio wrong! Crop it to make the audio flow.
(Also, don’t upload the parts into ur editing software with the audio. Add the high quality audio over it and crop the parts to match the flow!)
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My first MAP was a MASSIVE mistake...
Here are some of the mistakes I found I made that I changed in my newest one:
I only posted on YouTube instead of YouTube, Facebook, AND Instagram
I didn't add tags
I didn't set ANY rules
I didn't set a script
I didn't post character designs
I built it off of impulse instead of wanting to do it
In my newer MAP, I:
Shared it on Facebook as well as YouTube
I added plenty of tags
I set rules
I set a script (pretty detailed to ensure there's no confusion)
I posted character designs
I WANTED to do it
I currently have 7/30 parts filled in under a month! Pretty happy for my first (successful) MAP
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You forgot to add one of the most important things or maybe the most important thing of hosting a map, if you don't have passion for it, it can fall or even worse, it can be really stressful doing something you don't like. It can feel like a burden on you or even in the end the results of the map may look awful. For experience, I made a map of SpongeBob SquarePants (luckily I managed to make it really good) but just because I thought it will be easy and cool do it, I wanted to do it because others did it and I wanted to have one too and I wanted to do it for views and compliments, And in the end, I got to the point where I feel like it's a burden on me and I shouldn't give it up because a lot of people spent months participating in my map and in the end after a lot of pain, I finished it. But did I enjoy the process? No. So remember, only if you have a desire to see the final result in its entirety, if you know you will enjoy the process and you know it will be difficult but fun, go for it. Don't do it just for views or to impress someone. Do it for a purpose strong enough that you know you can stand it without feeling bad about it. Choose a map that you know you are willing to give everything for. If you chose a map that you end up not wanting to do because you have no real passion for it, it will just be a waste of time for you to work on it.
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20:03 This happened to me when I was participating in a MAP: watched it, didn't see my part where I knew it should be, got upset, commented, then realised later "oh wait the host just out my part in the wrong place"
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i don’t animate anymore but i used to animate around 4 years ago, i joined a MAP which seemed pretty amateur but at the time, i liked the song and my part so i took a spot near the very end. There were about like 30 spots which is really hopeful in hindsight. My part didn’t take me too long if i remember correctly and there were already around 10 people in the MAP when i started. I sent in my part and by that time there were only a few other people who were finished and there were still some open spots. I remember checking it around a year after i sent in the video and it still wasn’t finished, still with open spots, i left a comment looking for a follow up but i don’t know if anyone responded. It’s been 4 years since i finished my part and i can’t find the video anymore i have no clue what happened to it, i just remembered this because of a project for school.
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PLEASE, I wish more people regarded this! I've joined a bundle of MAP's when I was younger, and through doing so THREE out of FOUR projects were ghosted. It was really unfair to the artists and myself who've joined, and despite working so hard on our parts we've had to end up dealing with the Host's abandonment, or cancelling it all together.
It can be a very hard thing, and it can be stressful dealing with submissions and drawbacks, but with that being said, DON'T BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW.
Please think ahead and regard that this is a project that multiple people are working hard on, regardless of how many submissions there maybe. Some of these Host's did put out these works more obscurely, which is why they ended up being left off. As a past MAP attendee, the one thing that always dooms a MAP is impulsiveness and lack of communication.
This was long, but I can't stress enough how stressful it was having it be a reoccuring thing. I heavily appreciate the animations that I've made, but I'd just wish better for the works it was hosted by.
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OMG this is so useful T_T. Hosting MAPs has always been so challenging for me because I will like... spend months developing one and making sure it all okay... Post it... AND THEN SUDDENLY EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG. T_T. I remember for one of my MAPs my entire script got deleted somehow out of nowhere and I had to put it on pause because I had 0 backups and to be quiet frank I could hardly remember it OOPS. Even years later I still dream of bringing that MAP back... It was my pride and joy
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Something that the MAP hostess did that pulled a project I was on was back up and do a recall! A successful MAP that I was in didn't have too many people submitting when it initially came out, but the Host was really kind and openly aware about this! Even past 2 years, they Re-announced the project to a bigger audience, and brought more people in then it did before! Next thing you know it saved the project, and it was such an exciting thing to see come together! :D
Another thing that I saw from another Youtuber was by Ms1Sharklee, where they didn't have enough people joining in so they edited and spliced parts together in fill in space that couldn't make it! It was super creative, and something I think more people should pick up on when saving a project!
Please, again! I know I've said a lot but I'm just really compassionate about this stuff-
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1:15 my mind immediately went to the we are warriors map that went through 3 host changes 💀
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Oh boy, I made an obscure concept for a MAP and I thought it wouldn't work out for a little while even though it was far from my first hosted MAP. It's a deity OC MAP, with a lax color palette. Tbh the saving grace was Draikinator joining the MAP and tons of people coming when they posted their part. Anyways, it was purely down to luck that that MAP worked out, I wouldn't recommed trying it if you have less than like 1k subs, which is my situation. Go for something more general but still creative!
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this video was the saving grace for a project idea ive had in my mind for almost a year now. the mega-map im currently drowning in (affectionate) had been in the backburner all the way up until october when i decided to give this video a rewwatch for the funny. timing worked out scarily well since the month before i posted the call, the entire community it was for revived itself with a sequel album being release by a guy who had his music featured in the source material and a whole ass manga being announced based on said source.
first saw this remake when it came out and didnt think much of it. when i saw this video again in late 2023 in i took the advice to heart, ditched the youtube comment section, and speedran all the assets for the call so i could finally make my dream come true. the call itself is still new and little progress compared to the rest of the map has been made, but the pace the participants are going at are motivating me to continue pushing and are givig me high hopes for the project. theyre all very nice and they have been the best people ive worked with so far. just wanted to say that about them
also shameless plugin omori fans go join my map or else you get the pizza /nsrs /lh
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@caninedragons3363
1 year ago
I have a really funny story relating to similar MAPs ideas. Me and other host made a call for Wings of Fire to the song Two Birds by Regina Specktor, focusing on the same two characters, with similar art direction, and we posted them 1 WEEK apart from each other. Oh and they were both our first MAPs. We worked everything out as they're different projects focusing on different themes and story elements, and they're both now finished! I just think it's funny that there are so many similarities despite being pure coincidence.
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