The Building Contest is the 2nd episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 2nd installment of Season 1.
Unofficial Synopsis[]
The Second Coming gives the Fighting Stick Figures five minutes to build a replica of an excavator. Who among them has the best building skills?
Plot[]
The episode begins with The Second Coming using the Minecraft Game Icon block to create four stacks of every item. The Fighting Stick Figures each take a stack of every item. The Second Coming then puts away Minecraft, and opens Google Chrome.
The Second Coming presses Google and clicks Google Images. He then takes the 'e' from the word "Images" and puts it on the search bar and gradually uses the letters to enter 'excavator'. He clicks on it, and selects a picture of a CAT excavator. Then he signals the other stick figures to build the excavator. The Second Coming then opens a new tab, opens Google Timer, drags the tab into separate window and sets the countdown to 5 minutes. He then signals all the other stick figures to start and clicks on the timer.
Red goes for a basic design of the excavator, while Yellow builds the wheels very fast. Blue is more casual, making the excavator crane. Green seems to be struggling, as he couldn't figure out the right terracotta color for the wheels. The Second Coming watches over them and eventually falls asleep. So much for being a judge.
After 5 minutes, The Second Coming is awaked by the timer and signals the contestants to stop building. Everyone goes to see Red's build: a simple excavator design with a cat on top, nothing too fancy. The Second Coming asks what's the deal with the cat; Red points out the excavator's logo: CAT. The Second Coming nods, and everyone claps for Red's thinking.
The stick figures then move on to Yellow's excavator build. Yellow's build features a redstone mechanism where the claw can move up and down. The stick figures also clap to his build. After that, Blue showcases his build which looks a lot nicer, hence all the other stick figures clap almost instantly.
Then they go to Green's build: a giant, well-detailed excavator with grass sprouting all over it. Everyone awkwardly claps as Green is awarded the winner. While Green dances triumphantly, Blue pulls out a TNT, Yellow ignites it, and Blue throws it on the build. Green notices the TNT on his build and tries to save it, but it explodes anyways and the episode cuts to an end.
Credits[]
Animators:
- Alan Becker
- oxob3000
Music:
- Kevin McLeod (Your Call, Outro music)
Other:
- Green's Excavator Design Assistance by Avenoire
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Trivia[]
- This is the first AvM Short where Alan Becker had help animating.
Errors[]
- The Minecraft Game Icon disappears when the Start menu closes.
Both versions - Menu bar errors: The Minecraft Game Icon disappears when the menu bar does its closing animation.
- The excavator image that The Second Coming used belongs to TopWorldAuto, not Wikimedia Commons. The image name is also wrong. It's supposed to be "TopWorldAuto >> Photos of Caterpillar 330 - photo galleries", not "File:Caterpillar 330B Hydraulic Excavator side - Hillsboro, Oregon.JPG". This means that the images and their names got mixed up.
Both versions - Name errors: The image name is wrong, and the image belongs to TopWorldAuto, not Wikimedia Commons. This means that the images and their names got mixed up.
- When Green discards his pickaxe, it does not properly leave his inventory.
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