With all due respect, more than a simple reference I see a straight "copy" here. And I truly think that it shouldn't be encouraged. I do believe that this animation without those references were 1 place worthy, but you can't animate a rip-off from an anime scene/intro like that, which is a forbidden act in animation matters.
hmmmm, but what you are also saying is that i cannot animate the stickpage intro (where the 2 stick run at eachother) into the animation? since that is a thing that have been done in GTL 1 - resistance fall of stick
i kinda placed those 2 things in the same category, so if im not allowed to animate a aot scene, then im not allowd to animate the stickpage intro scene right?
also its not that the aot scene is completly out of nowhere, since the lightsaber guy can spin and dash as a ability
I would like to hear a opinion on this from one of the judges especialy since there might be more GTL's / Competitions to come and to prevent confusion.