Sandbox / 48 Hour OSC Film Festival

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On 18th July 2021, the OSC was challenged to draw, write and animate Object Shows based on a given prompt within 48 hours.

On 20th July 2021, legotd61 hosted the first annual 48 film festival featuring the submissions made during the time period.

The film festival allows aspiring OSC creators to showcase their works and talents while also supporting local charities through donation drives. The rules are simple, produce a short film from scratch, either by yourself or with a team, where the only "premade" aspects allowed are the music and open-sourced assets (Such as the BFDI files).

Once the 48 hours are up, the films are compiled and screened back-to-back with short Intermissions in-between during which and at the end, the viewers can vote using donations^note USD $1 is equivalent to 1 vote for their favorite short(s). The short that accumulates the most amount of money wins "Best in Show" as well as bragging rights.

The playlist containing all the film festivals and shorts^note Okay, almost all of the shorts since thirty-eight of them are currently not available as stand-alone videos can be found here.

The shorts contains the following tropes:

In General

• A Dog Named "Dog": Zigzagged.
• Aerith and Bob: regular human names
• A Lizard Named "Liz": "-y" suffix
• Alliterative Name: If the shorts are not named after the year's theme,
  • The Little Things: Compass Calamity
  • Nature's Bliss: A Lonely Leaf, A Florist's Folly, Restaurant in the Rainforest, Sunflower's Summit Venture, Solar Starved, Industrial Invasion, Sentient Shurbs, Habitat Heist
  • Metropolis: Bank Breakers, The Colour Crew, A Cup Of Change, Magical Malfunction, Metro Memoir, The Metropolis Mayor, Moonlight Memories, Paint Can Peril, The Plant Protest, Tale of Two Cities, Troop 16, Critter Crusaders and Window Wipers
• Animate Inanimate Object: ...although there will be some exceptions
• Anthropomorphic Food:
• Armless Biped:
• The Big Damn Kiss:
• Cast Full of Gay:
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • the first one was live-streamed... later years to avoid any audio or video errors
  • The donation drive, previously Transgender Law Centre, now Trevor Project, previously determined by the most number of votes, currently it's the amount of donations a short garners
  • Filmy the Mascot was only introduced in the third film festival
• Intermission:
• Left Hanging:
• Living Polyhedron: shapes
• Officially Shortened Title:
• Serial Escalation: the duration just keeps getting longer and longer every year, 46 (2 hours and 55 minutes), 73, (about 4 hours and twenty minutes), 92 (nearly five-and-a-half hours), donation pool is also getting bigger ($307 -> $1026)
• Stylistic Suck:
• Title Drop: prompt/festival name for that year

Film Festivals (By Year)

• The Little Things (2021)
• Nature's Bliss (2022)
• Metropolis (2023)

Shorts which have their own TV Tropes page

• A Florist's Folly
• Dandelion - The World Begins With You
• Jeopardized Objects
• The Letter
• The Little Things That Get You
• Object Colony

Recap

List of Short Films (by order of appearance)

The Little Things (2021)

Full Screening: 20th July 2021

Donation Drive: Transgender Law Centre^note The screening raised USD $307 after seven days

Winners: The Missing Colour (1st), Lost and Found (2nd) and Reach for the Sky! (3rd)

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Descriptions - 15/46

1. The Selfish Cursor:
2. I Kent Be Taller:
3. Objects on the Counters: Four objects figure out how to get off the kitchen counter.
4. The Little Rascals:
5. The Drawer:
6. Little Things Are Okay Too:
7. Trying: A stick figure and its creator have a heart-to-heart over the former's existence being very important to the latter.
8. The Large Incorporated Commercial: Are you tired of being small? Well, Large Incorporated will fix that by using lasers that are 100% guaranteed painless and totally not a scam.
9. Little Hitmen:
10. Cast Away: Shapes take refuge on a deserted island before setting sail.
11. The Little Things in Life: An unfinished short where a tiny object gets run over by a tire wheel.
12. Jeopardized Objects: It's everyone favourite quiz show ^note Audio error occurred during the full screening
13. The Little Things:
14. BFB But They Are Babies for Some Reason: Going Exactly What It Says on the Tin, Four has to deal with a bunch of screaming babies as his contestants.
15. Life, Beauty and a Friend: ...contemplate
16. Zero To hundred:
17. The Paced Space: Who would make it out alive when a group of objects tries to escape a death trap?
18. The Adventures of Rubber Ball and Seasul: Two not-really best friends Rubber Ball and Seasull go on a treacherous quest when their friend Darvin get kidnapped by The Cloaked Figure^note Lagging error occurred during the full screening
19. Object Colony: Follow this nature documentary about the insect-like objects living together in their ant colony.
20. The Little Things:
21. The spider: Human squashes a tiny spider.
22. It's a Tiny Life: Shrank down to minuscule size (or more realistic size in some cases), Mascara, Lipstick and Orange Book must survive a world of enlarged proportions in order to reverse their shrinking.
23. The Little Things SITCOM: Three friends decide who gets the last slice of pizza.
24. The Little Things That Get You: In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by murderous little things, a yellow M&M goes about their day without being seen. Literally since most people and the little things are unable to see or hear them.
25. Cheering Up Brick: It's Brick's birthday and his friends will put a smile on his face no matter what.
26. Lost and Found: Ever wonder what happens to the little things you accidentally dropped? Answer: They make a fully-functional society in your backyard.
27. Counting The Little Things:
28. Little Objects of The Car: ... crashes the party
29. Small Scale Safety Procedures:
30. Five: The short is most notable for being the first submission of the film festival.
31. The Little Things in Life:
32. The Little Things:
33. Life Changer:
34. Layover: tropical isles, the only problem is the passenger is an icicle
35. Toothpaste:
36. When You Give A Dollar:
37. Battle Thing:
38. My Past Is Not Today:
39. Reach For the Sky!:
40. Cool Objects in Space: Pilot
41. Compass Calamity:
42. The Little Things:
43. Hamabo:
44. Little Things:
45. The Missing Colour:
46. The Letter: Soda Bottle has trouble confessing his feelings to his crush, Battery due to conflicting advice from his good and bad angels.

Nature's Bliss (2022)

Full Screening: 19th July 2022

Donation Drive: The Trevor Project^note The screening raised USD $904 after two days

Winners: Treasure (1st), Dandelion - The World Begins With You (2nd), Natural Bliss (3rd)

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Descriptions - 2/73

1. A Lonely Leaf:
2. Cherry!:
3. Valley:
4. In Living White:
5. Natural Bliss:
6. Butterdie Effect:
7. The Lil' Spike Tree:
8. Object Battle Royale:
9. A Florist's Folly:
10. Stranded in the Wilderness:
11. Restaurant in the Rainforest:
12. A Natural Dreamer:
13. Octopus: Orphaned by a House Fire, Circle gets an octopus as not only a pet but also a life-long companion.
14. Ignorance is Fish:
15. Inspirational Horntational: Two shapes put their animating skills to the test in order to impress a renowned animator ... Wait, isn't this supposed to be about nature or something?
16. Succession:
17. Tree Climbing:
18. Nature's Bliss:
19. Realization:
20. Object-Rama:
21. Sunflower's Summit Venture:
22. Blossom:
23. Coreopsis:
24. Forget-Me-Not:
25. Don't Judge a Book by its Cover:
26. Turning Over a New Leaf:
27. Nature's Remedy:
28. Object Show Clan's Flower Frenzy:
29. The Flower That Holds Earth:
30. Imperfections:
31. The Average Nature Haters:
32. The Seedlings:
33. No Batteries, No Problem:
34. The Little Nature's Bliss That Get You: In this sequel/prequel to The Little Things That Get You, Chalk...
35. Shocking Bliss:
36. Solar Starved:
37. The Perfect Area:
38. What is Grass:
39. My Floral Friend Pete:
40. Industrial Invasion:
41. The Beekeeper:
42. Clambers Jamboree:
43. Nature's Bliss:
44. Sentient Shurbs:
45. Bliss:
46. Goose:
47. Treasure:
48. Exploring Nature:
49. A Change in Scenery:
50. Dandelion - The World Begins With You:
51. Habitat Heist:
52. The Dew of the Forrest:
53. Virtual Tour:
54. The Forest:
55. The Lake:
56. Potted:
57. Lost Track:
58. Under The Little Patch:
59. The Lost Findings:
60. Bugging:
61. Forbidden Wildlife:
62. Hold The Phone:
63. Basic Steps to Start a Garden:
64. Motherboard Nature:
65. Flipside News: The Blissfulness of the Crystal Clear Caverns:
66. It's All In The Art:
67. Waking Up:
68. Take A Break:
69. Day and Night:
70. Booga Dooga:
71. Nature's Misery:
72. Town Tour:
73. Lost VHS of a Plant Commercial We Found:

Metropolis (2023)

Full Screening: 5th June 2023

Donation Drive: The Trevor Project^note The screening raised USD $1,026 after two days

Winners: WILL (1st), The Million Dollar Idea (2nd), FRAGMENTS (3rd)

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Descriptions - 6/92

1. The Leftovers: Someone had ordered a homicide with extra pickles late into the night and four detectives come down to the scene of the crime for takeout. However, the lack of concrete evidence means different theories come into mind when cracking the case.
2. Super Object Megacorporation:
3. The Silver City: Three friends venture far towards the fabled Silver City but is it really about the journey and not the destination?
4. A City of Gray:
5. The Runaway Ticket:
6. In the Metropolis:
7. The Electric Saga:
8. Oh No.:
9. Wild Dreams:
10. Morning:
11. Magical Malfunction: Sundew finds themself in over their head after their boss assigns the most important and dangerous job in the entire company to a newbie intern. Unsurprisingly, they cause a world-ending power meltdown within the same day.
12. Wheel on Out:
13. The Scourge of Metropolis:
14. Metropolitan Pizza: A quartet of friends tried advertising their pizzeria but since they don't have a budget, the four have to find alternative ways.
15. City of Dreams:
16. Out of Bounds:
17. Little Pleasures in the Big City:
18. Window Wipers:
19. Just Another Tuesday:
20. Fixer Upper!:

21. Urban Trouble:
22. Metromeet:
23. A Waste of a Chase:
24. Terrors And Fables Of The Horrible City Of Cityplace:
25. A Million Problems:
26. WILL:
27. Vania:
28. City Life:
29. What's Important:
30. Bad Case of the Unknown:
31. Disarray:
32. 2048:
33. The Greatest Object Show On Earth:
34. StreEtSCAPE:
35. Stop, Yield, Explore:
36. A Failed Heist:
37. Thé Delivery:
38. Cityside Catastrophe:
39. An Awakening Mystery:
40. Metro Memoir:

41. Soda's Project:
42. Come & Go:
43. Moving Day:
44. The Salubrious Day:
45. Troop 16, Critter Crusaders:
46. Large Inc - The Little Time:
47. The Metropolis Mayor:
48. On A Roll:
49. City Folk:
50. The Poly Brothers: A Mission of a Lifetime:
51. The Whole World & Ladybugs:
52. Awesome Sauce:
53. FRAGMENTS:
54. Untitled (37):
55. Justice Never Sleeps:
56. First Day:
57. A Closer Look:
58. Taxing:
59. New Beginnings:
60. A day in the life of Mark:

61. Bank Breakers:
62. Job Interview "Object Show":
63. The City That Sleeps:
64. A Cup Of Change:
65. The Plant Protest:
66. The Big Finish!:
67. Paint Can Peril:
68. malaware.exe:
69. Signfeld:
70. We Follow (So Blindly) [Ladder 48]:
71. The Seedlings 2: Home Sweet Home: sequel
72. Tale of Two Cities:
73. Lemonade Tycoon: A cookie jar opens a lemonade stand to get the toy model of xer dreams but goes overboard with expanding her business.
74. Metropolis Cave:
75. Positive Changes:
76. Say No to the City!:
77. Opposites Attract: Two Childhood Friends reunite after years apart due to their different life paths in the countryside and the city.
78. Your Fault Not Mine:
79. The Archive:
80. Inorderly Law:

81. Fools With Tools:
82. Brushstrokes of Change:
83. Big City Judgement:
84. Archevilles Got Screws Loose:
85. Escape:
86. Tie Family Metropolis Special:
87. My Own Two Eyes:
88. Watch Out:
89. Moonlight Memories:
90. Inanimate NewsChannel:
91. Million Dollar Idea:
92. The Colour Crew:

Trivia

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The shorts usually have their own respective standalone video uploaded to the YouTube channel of the creator or one of the people who worked on the short. However, there are currently thirty-six individual shorts^note 15 from The Little Things, 8 from Nature's Bliss and 13 from Metropolis which are either privated, deleted or never had the video uploaded in the first place
• What Could Have Been: not go as planned
  • The number of films are less than expected [Rephrase]
    • The Little Things: 63 films and 153 participants, 39 groups and 23 individual films, 46/63 (17 incompleted)
    • Nature's Bliss: 293 people will be creating 98 short films, 61 groups and 37 individual films, 72/98 (26 incompleted)
    • Metropolis: This year, we have 433 participants amongst 90 groups and 44 individual films!, 92/134 (42 incompleted)
  • 2022 screening, Lego had this whole intro where he informed people about being supportive of the films but it was unfortunately cut out from the premiere... which would have been helpful for Object Battle Royale
  • The 2023 screening was supposed to be set over the course of two days but technical issues had caused the first-day screening to be cancelled and moved over and combined into the second day.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Because there's two-day window submission,

Wicks

• LGBT Representation in Media:
  • The Letter: Soda Bottle
• One Head Taller:
  • Nature's Bliss: Ben and Andy ("Nature's Remedy")
  • Metropolis: Fedoric and Sunny ("A City of Gray"), Aaron and Mike ("Little Pleasures in the Big City"), Fish Cake and Wrench ("FRAGMENTS"), Cranberry and Tie ("Opposites Attract")