Hey guys, glad that everyone put some feedback here into the idea of extending the challenge timelines. We're only talking about the timelines, but I can address the other two ideas that came up. MFlemJr was making trophies, but I think he's been hit with the busy life bug and he hasn't done anything with that. I don't really have time to make those either right now, which is why the winners get the virtual Kong armature head trophy image that they can put in their Animate Clay profiles. Check it out on the challenges page at the bottom if you're the winner.

Money being put in a pot sounds good, but there's always the question of who can afford it - who collects it "such as with PayPal", what about the transfer fees, currency conversion etc etc. I think it would be too difficult since it's a world wide challenge.

So, if all are in favor of 12 weeks for each challenge, I say lets give it a try. It worked on Stop Mo Shorts, everyone liked it, so why re-invent the wheel? I'll make the rule change on the challenge page today.

16 weeks sounds good, but remember to display the deadline for each challenge on the home page so people can't get confused.

Alright, I've updated the page to reflect all the changes. Mainly adding the new date format and rule changes. Let me know if you guys like it, and Marc Hendry will keep it updated like he's been doing. If we get less entries we can re-consider the 3 month deadline, well....how can we? We only had 1 for July 

@ Nick ... I completely agree.  12 weeks will allow for people to think of an idea, construct sets, puppets, etc.  And even at that, 12 weeks doesn't mean people will finish   But, for the most part, everyone will get an entry in.   As you said, it depends on how much work a person wants to put into the film.     

@ Marc ... For the winners, I don't believe we're able to add html code to our profiles.  I tried to add the kong trophy, but the image/code did not appear.

Unfortunately with the latest version of Jomsocial - they stopped allowing HTML in profiles. That really stinks, it takes away the customization for everyone. I've tried a few things to get HTML to work, but failed 

Well, looks like I'll need to change the info on the latest challenges page to reflect that. Sorry I can't fix that guys.