New Members vs Regular Members

I'd like to point out that although there are a good number of ideas in this thread, most of them if not all are focused around group collaboration. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it does encourage members to make something and contribute to the community, but deadlines and dropped collabs tend to be kinda discouraging at times. And people joining a collab only to forget to make a part doesn't help either. This IS a great way to get community interest back in gear, but I don't think it will help the community stay in gear until collab success is a bit more consistent.

That said, I have an idea that might help on the creativity front, at least individually.

I've heard at least a few people complain about having the energy to animate something, but when they open up their program of choice, they realize that they either don't have an idea on what to animate, or that they've forgotten the idea they had. So I'm going to propose the idea that every animator be encouraged to start writing or keeping a list of personal animation ideas that they would like to do even when they aren't near the computer, that way fewer of them will be stuck staring at a blank screen or end up defaulting to making a fighting animation.

I'm a newbie noob so I think that sharing resources can be both a good thing and bad thing. Good because it gives others the tools necessary to create what they want and does not hinder the process when it comes to animating because sharing knowledge is great and it helps others learn. At the same time there will be people signing up for Maplemation just to get free resources which is kinda why the whole 100 posts thing is there which is reasonable. I'm here to learn and improve while also making cool new friends along the way (Also try to meet my animation senpais)