Post Links to your Animation: 2008

[adamrw91]

Post links to your team's animation for 2008.

Team 701's animation (our first year):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb_PsKQSr2E
wish you guys the best of luck!

[TheOtherGuy]

Very nice!

Here's 1726's entry:
http://www.project1726.org/2008web/pages/competitions/animation.php

[BuddyB309]

I don't have the link to the actual animation but here is the link to Team 1625's Most Extravagant Credits EVER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xep37A1u7sE)

[Koko Ed]

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f327/X-Cats/2008%20Season/?action=view&current=team_0191.flv

[MadeAtMidnight]

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f327/X-Cats/2008%20Season/?action=view&current=team_0191.flv


I WANT ONE! Actually, I'd take two.... :)

Glad to see that another team's invention/idea is as reasonable as ours.;)

[rastermon]

Team 847 PHRED Animation Here
http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj2/Rastermon/?action=view&current=team_0847.flv

Philomath High School

[Akash Rastogi]

Team 847 PHRED Animation Here
http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj2/Rastermon/?action=view&current=team_0847.flv

Philomath High School

oooo, a laser:D Nice animation. I think I'll have one of our animators post ours up later.

[MadeAtMidnight]

Here is 1625's animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LsAFVN401o

[D_Price]

There are some really neat animations here... i love them all.

[hipsterjr]

Here is 1625's animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LsAFVN401o
You put more work into the credits than I have seen in some entries:yikes:


Well, here's 342's entry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGINAtZVtQM)

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[Brian J. R.]

well, our lone animator decided on rendering in HD.....only 190 hours left (no kidding either)

[BuddyB309]

You put more work into the credits than I have seen in some entries:yikes:

Thats because I've been working on those credits since October. I had the idea last April to do a dancing Ted Boardman for the credits.

[fireball3004]

Ours isn't online yet, but it will be... something tells me just a few of these animations were A. not done entirely in 3Ds MAX and B. somewhat silly maybe?

now I wish ours hadn't been so serious... plus crappy, I only spent 8 hours on it, and we didn't even use my charactor... that's what happens if you get into building the bot.

[Tim Arnold]

1523: http://marsbot.org/animation

[Magiciandude]

Ours are uploading as we speak! Or...as I speak I guess...considering its not a real time conversation...

-Chris

[Koko Ed]

Ours isn't online yet, but it will be... something tells me just a few of these animations were A. not done entirely in 3Ds MAX and B. somewhat silly maybe?


Guilty as charged.
It was easier doing the gif like animations in Premiere and it was more fun making something like those ubiquitous commercials that sell do everything products at some ridiculously cheap price with a billion extras for free.

[lilwupster]

Here's our animation for this year. :)


http://team303.com/index.php?m=info&a=view&ListID=91
(http://team303.com/index.php?m=info&a=view&ListID=91)

[BuddyB309]

Ours isn't online yet, but it will be... something tells me just a few of these animations were A. not done entirely in 3Ds MAX and B. somewhat silly maybe?


A: true, we used combustion to composite some of the effects.

B: True. But come on. You can't be serious all the time. After all we are making cartoons. ;)

[Jethr0]

here's ours, though its our first time with it...

http://www.riotcrew.org/2008animation.aspx

[Aldabe]

well, here is the Brazilian Machine entry :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itZ2TMEPn10

i will try to put a better quality version on monday...

[Ryo Chiba]

Here is HBR's entry.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3d0PX8Vbk7g

[Gutgarts]

Here is the link to Team 1676's 2008 Animation "Trash Smash". Let us know what you think :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVDiW6h86s

[fireball3004]

Wow, looks like some excellent animations this year round. Personally, I heart light saber squirels though those credits were very long.

Lol, I didn't mean it as a bad thing, silly is good, I'm sure that the judges will enjoy the break from constat seriousness. Though I can just imagine it playing in the award competition lol.
And I don't have any problem with none 3DS MAX ones, it was pretty worthy, and beats the pants off of our's

[Sconley]

Here's Team 1732's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pSjlmo4Ik#GU5U2spHI_4

What do you guys think?

[Magiciandude]

Okay, here's number one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgzTkLOwLQ

And...here's number TWO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJaRsI6-2Ao

Take note...as the mentor, I did not do hardly any of this work. These were Tyler and Chris's first full 3d projects ;)...We used After Effects for compositing though...hopefully they won't disqualify us...

Oh...And...just in case you didn't see it...here's our SAFETY VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG-D2F_ShE

-Chris

[BEbs75]

We worked hard this year and experimented with new methods. I hope you all enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLXjavjhvL8

[explodingcan]

here is ours from hilo high school - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5100411496523401080&hl=en or go to our website at http://first.hilohighrobotics.com

[Akash Rastogi]

Here is HBR's entry.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3d0PX8Vbk7g

I love that concept. Except..my computer only gets rebooted about once every 2 months:p

[Ryo Chiba]

Thanks!

We were sort of afraid that the luddite philosophy we decided to highlight would be unpopular with people in FIRST. :)

Also, explodingcan, I really like the accent on your animation's narrator. My question might sound really stupid, but is that how most hawaiians talk?

[explodingcan]

Thanks!
Also, explodingcan, I really like the accent on your animation's narrator. My question might sound really stupid, but is that how most hawaiians talk?

Not really. our nararrator is just a regular student. Just because we are from hawaii, it doesnt mean that everyone talks in a hawaiian accent. Hawaiian is a separate language. I mean its just like when australians say, mate. I am replying in a way that rarely anyone in hawaii would reply like. If someone was hawaiian and they read that post, they will be full on racist so,
thanks for the comment.

[Hawahee]

Thanks!

We were sort of afraid that the luddite philosophy we decided to highlight would be unpopular with people in FIRST. :)

Also, explodingcan, I really like the accent on your animation's narrator. My question might sound really stupid, but is that how most hawaiians talk?
We chose him as our narrator because we thought he had the "professional" voice. And explodingcan is right, not all of us in Hawaii has that accent. We talk English too.

[Sconley]

Does anyone know when all of the videos will be available for viewing on FIRSTbase?

[azn_grrl_powa]

ugh...im on DOE computers and they block photobucket/youtube...ugh

[mrbliss]

Team 904: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ohscPwbzmU

Done almost entirely in 3dsMax. And Audacity. And Adobe Premiere Elements. And maybe a little Perl scripting.

Steve

[Morgan Gillespie]

Team 25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtmO3bIznNE
Done in 3dsm and WMM 2.6

[Dan Zollman]

I don't have the link to the actual animation but here is the link to Team 1625's Most Extravagant Credits EVER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xep37A1u7sE)

That is now my all-time favorite...
has Ted seen this yet?

and who left the refrigerator open?!?!

[BuddyB309]

That is now my all-time favorite...
has Ted seen this yet?

and who left the refrigerator open?!?!

Ha ha thanks. No Ted Boardman has not seen this yet nor will he will see it before the competition. (Hopefully) I can only imagine the judges and his reaction when they see it for the first time in the judging room.

Team 904: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ohscPwbzmU

Done almost entirely in 3dsMax. And Audacity. And Adobe Premiere Elements. And maybe a little Perl scripting.

Steve

Its good, But I do not see your 5 second slate at the beginning. Is this a different version than what you sent to FIRSTbase? If there is no different version, not having a slate at the begining would be grounds for disqualification. I would hate to see all that work go to waste.

Team 25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtmO3bIznNE
Done in 3dsm and WMM 2.6

Morgan my main materials man! Stuff you do with materials still dumbfounds me.

Here is HBR's entry.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3d0PX8Vbk7g

Hey Ryo, I love the entirely different approach that your team took. Although I might suggest that next time you might want to dabble into building your own characters and rigging them. Always try to challenge yourself. I also encourage teams to build and rig their characters over the summer so they have a REALLY good character to use for the AVA. Instead of scrambling to try to make something during the season.

Magiciandude

Thats funny. I absolutely love your Dean Kamen character. Hmmmm... I got to create my own someday. Keep using him, But still challenge yourself by re-rigging him so your animation is smoother and your can crank out more facial expressions from him.

[temujin]

Does anyone know when all of the videos will be available for viewing on FIRSTbase?

I asked Autodesk, and they said sometime in the next week (they have to review them first). And that answer was Saturday - I didn't realize that other folks besides Firsters work weekends....

[MadeAtMidnight]

I asked Autodesk, and they said sometime in the next week (they have to review them first). And that answer was Saturday - I didn't realize that other folks besides Firsters work weekends....

I have been amazed at how much Autodesk does for this competition. Any correspondence is quick and courteous. I think we are very lucky that they support this.

[Magiciandude]

Thats funny. I absolutely love your Dean Kamen character. Hmmmm... I got to create my own someday. Keep using him, But still challenge yourself by re-rigging him so your animation is smoother and your can crank out more facial expressions from him.

Haha...thanks! I would've re-rigged him if time permitted...but he only got in there because I ended up having to put Tyler's animation together in video editing software for him. Unfortunately we didn't have enough complete scenes for the audio track, so we ended up adding in some extra little quick things at the last minute :p .

Also...who's idea was it for a giant wall of refrigerators? ABSOLUTELY INGENIOUS!!!

And...I couldn't stop laughing for about ten minutes after seeing the thingamajingy...I'm pretty sure that completely made my day...awesome, well-executed idea...I want one...but no one picked up the phone when I called :( .

I'm seeing some really great animations here though! The competition gets tougher and tougher every year!

-Chris

[chaineezee]

Team 135's AVA entry:

http://files.filefront.com/Team+135mov/;9652921;/fileinfo.html

We'll put up a youtube video shortly for those of you who would rather stream than download the good quality version.:cool:

[chaineezee]

The youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zlmgbswo-Q

Enjoy.

[Kevin Thorp]

Team 701's animation (our first year):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb_PsKQSr2E
wish you guys the best of luck!

Neat idea. Very realistic murky underwater scene. But I noticed your "opening slate" was 2 screens, and longer than 5 seconds. Aren't you worried Autodesk might disqualify it?

[JRosselet]

Well, to be quite honest, I am extremely disappointed in my animation. So much so, in fact, that I haven't looked at it since I submitted. So, I don't wish to show it to you guys at the moment, maybe later.

Ill post a link to what I had hoped to do (storyboard/concepts/design)... http://jrosselet.com/188/animation/storyboard.pdf

Too many things fell apart right at the end of the competition; I had MAJOR match moving problems, distributive rendering problems, problems of repetitive (and spontaneous) crashing when rendering, and exams cutting right in the middle. I worked really hard... yet crashed and burned.

I can't even explain how disappointed I am at the moment. Unfortunately for me, this was my first and last time competing in this challenge. :\

[Kevin Thorp]

Well, to be quite honest, I am extremely disappointed in my animation. So much so, in fact, that I haven't looked at it since I submitted. So, I don't wish to show it to you guys at the moment, maybe later....

Please don't be too hard on yourself. We've all crashed & burned at one time or another. At least you've gained some invaluable experience.

The storyboard looks awesome. Why not finish the animation & let your team use it for fundraising and recruiting?

[Gutgarts]

Hey everyone here is Team 1676's animation.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KLVDiW6h86s

If anyone can give some feedback, that would be greatly appreciated.

[rastermon]

I can't even explain how disappointed I am at the moment. Unfortunately for me, this was my first and last time competing in this challenge. :\

http://jrosselet.com/188/animation/storyboard.pdf


Are those your rendered stills in the storyboard?
Awesome lighting and detail. At that level, it would take a lot of CPUs to render in time.


Team 847

[Treadus]

Team Driven #1730
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3kA_PYOtg
Story Board: http://www.teamdriven.us/webmedia/Story%20Board.ppt

We finished uploading the animation 7 minutes before it was due... To get the animation under the file size limit we had to reduce the quality to 9%. We started out at 800mb! So our animation that we had to submit looks like trash. So we made a high def version for ourselves so we didn't feel too bad.

[adamrw91]

Neat idea. Very realistic murky underwater scene. But I noticed your "opening slate" was 2 screens, and longer than 5 seconds. Aren't you worried Autodesk might disqualify it?

Ok there is an area thats up for inturpretation in the Entry Format Requirements for the slate and credits.

it says: "Credits may follow that still frame"

but it dosent say what still frame, the prior still frame mentioned in that section was the slate so we put the credits after the slate. But the slate itself is exactly 5 seconds long.
hope there is no problems.:(

[balln56]

948's Animation... http://youtube.com/watch?v=oGXC4GkLIg8
948's "storyboard"... http://www.nrg948.org/xoops/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=2

[Kevin Thorp]

Ok there is an area thats up for inturpretation in the Entry Format Requirements for the slate and credits.

it says: "Credits may follow that still frame"

but it dosent say what still frame, the prior still frame mentioned in that section was the slate so we put the credits after the slate. But the slate itself is exactly 5 seconds long.
hope there is no problems.:(

Now that I reread the rules again you might be right. I wonder if we're in trouble for adding our credits at the end, after the 2nd black screen.

[adamrw91]

i rey dont think that they are gonna be that strict about the format. but if they are you could always argue your case the format requirements were not that specific.

[Wirelesstaco]

Here is 1511 Animation
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7xxYd5LIzzA

[Teh_j357er]

WOO! The 357 A-Team worked hard on this one! I hope you guys like it a lot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tlOb2cl9bo

[giacomo]

Here's our team's submission. What do you think?

http://wiredcats2415.com/wiredcats/robotics-anim.html

[BuddyB309]

team 1511

This is not against you and I don't personally mean it to you, but I one of my pet peeves is the use of the biped. It its a horrible rig to use. As many of you probably know that by now the way I preach my anti-biped views on chiefdelphi. Nice concept, Also I think the bridge could be made a little more convenient on climbing. Those steps might be trouble for the elderly ;)

team 357

Awesome, the only thing I have to critique is a little too much camera movement. Again another of my pet peeves. But you guys didn't go overboard. Nice concept, like the models. I would work l style, lighting, and materials for next year. I think that would be cool if you made the entire thing Dr. suess like.;)

team 2415

I love how it is a local problem that you are presenting. It makes it more personal. Few pointers, the water in the ocean could use less bump map. And the sand a little less grainy. Also Increase the size of your shadow maps so you get nice hard shadows like you would when your on the beach. Other than that very nice.

[Denis]

Hi!

Here is the running time of # 2247, of Brazil. Although we are beginners in AVA hope that comment and help us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COhaoiPJtdU

Thanks,

Denis #2247:D

[Wirelesstaco]

team 1511

This is not against you and I don't personally mean it to you, but I one of my pet peeves is the use of the biped. It its a horrible rig to use. As many of you probably know that by now the way I preach my anti-biped views on chiefdelphi. Nice concept, Also I think the bridge could be made a little more


LoL I know you have a thing against bipeds. I wasn't going to use it either but was kind of a last resort thing. I had made a bone structure worked pretty well but except the envelopes were all screwed up and spent 8 hours trying to figure out how to fix them. In the end I was short on time and decided to just use character studio to save some time. The thing in the garbage at then end is my character I was going to use. Thanks

[Mihai]

All of our animators were rookies, but I think they did a great job:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYjxw-gyE8

[giacomo]

team 2415

I love how it is a local problem that you are presenting. It makes it more personal. Few pointers, the water in the ocean could use less bump map. And the sand a little less grainy. Also Increase the size of your shadow maps so you get nice hard shadows like you would when your on the beach. Other than that very nice.

Thanks! We're a rookie team, so I wasn't really sure how ours compared to others. However, the issue discussed in the animation actually isn't local. Our school is in Atlanta, GA, but our animators were very adamant about the issue so they designed the concept for the animation around it.

[goodsky]

Here's team 1902's first ever animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TyB1HMAI4

We spent a good deal of time doing tutorials and getting over the 'ohhh look at the moving 3d objects phase' but we managed to come up with this in the end. In the chaos of the last couple days we never got a narration (which we were kinda almost planning on doing) so sorry if its a bit confusing. We'll be more on task next year!

[BuddyB309]

Here's team 1902's first ever animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TyB1HMAI4

We spent a good deal of time doing tutorials and getting over the 'ohhh look at the moving 3d objects phase' but we managed to come up with this in the end. In the chaos of the last couple days we never got a narration (which we were kinda almost planning on doing) so sorry if its a bit confusing. We'll be more on task next year!

Holy cow! This is your first time using max? Wow, I must say for a first time users you guys are pretty tight. Stay with it and you'll be able to make something awesome next year.

[Teh_j357er]

team 357

Awesome, the only thing I have to critique is a little too much camera movement. Again another of my pet peeves. But you guys didn't go overboard. Nice concept, like the models. I would work l style, lighting, and materials for next year. I think that would be cool if you made the entire thing Dr. suess like.;)

The funny thing about your last statement is that our entry in 2007 was entirely based on Dr.Suess. Unfortunately I don't have a link to it, but I'll try to get it up soon. Thanks for the feedback though, we really appreciate it! Also, we're secretly trying to get 1K views of our animation in 1 month, so be sure to watch! Perhaps over and over again!:cool:

[goodsky]

Holy cow! This is your first time using max? Wow, I must say for a first time users you guys are pretty tight. Stay with it and you'll be able to make something awesome next year.

I've actually used max once before on my old team before I moved, but this is the first for the rest of us (and i learned so much during the year i almost feel like this is my first year truly using max). The rest of the team is still really good! Thanks for the compliment.

By the way, your credits are incredible, they made my day.

[Qbranch]

I don't have the link to the actual animation but here is the link to Team 1625's Most Extravagant Credits EVER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xep37A1u7sE)

*chuckle* love it! :D

-q

[Laaba 80]

Thats because I've been working on those credits since October. I had the idea last April to do a dancing Ted Boardman for the credits.


Who is Ted Boardman?
Joey

[Koko Ed]

Here is 1511 Animation
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7xxYd5LIzzA

The animation reminds me a little of my all-time favorite animation from 2004 by the Thunderchickens where a chicken got so frustrated trying to cross the road it invented a gigantic robot chicken to get across.

[ZachKahn]

Team 1515 presents Red Alert!

http://www.bhrobotics.com/MorTorq/Videos/3

(old animations also on the page)

[BuddyB309]

Who is Ted Boardman?
Joey

Ted Boardman is one of the judges on the judging panel that looks at all the animations in Atlanta. He also teaches lessons in the autodesk booth in Atlanta. He also has his own thing on Thursday in Atlanta called "The Phill and Ted show" where they give detailed lessons over max and look at some of the entries and say what is good and what is bad about them. If you go to Atlanta this year, I highly recommend you attending these lessons. You learn a bunch and they give away free books. (Plus I will hopefully be in the autodesk booth this year and I love teaching people all about my techniques.)

I personally know Ted Boardman and thought it would be funny to have him dance.

[Kevin Thorp]

Ted Boardman:
http://hyperpics.blogs.com/beyond_the_ui/images/tedb_bw_small.jpg

[BuddyB309]

^ yeah that guy

[Mazin]

Yeah, animation.
http://files.aztekera.com/WHAT-IF-What-If-H.264.mov

[addictedMax]

Team Driven #1730
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3kA_PYOtg
Story Board: http://www.teamdriven.us/webmedia/Story%20Board.ppt

We finished uploading the animation 7 minutes before it was due... To get the animation under the file size limit we had to reduce the quality to 9%. We started out at 800mb! So our animation that we had to submit looks like trash. So we made a high def version for ourselves so we didn't feel too bad.Cant wait to see you at STL.

[adamrw91]

this should become a sticky

[Kevin Thorp]

I wonder when Autodesk will have all the 2008 videos posted on FIRSTbase?

[BuddyB309]

I wonder when Autodesk will have all the 2008 videos posted on FIRSTbase?

My guess is they will release the videos on the website on the 28th of February. Its the day after all the Inventor entries are due.

[stevek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLOLcfvJf7E


I didnt see our team posted yet. This year we had a brand new group.

last year we didnt submit for the first time in 8 years. hope you enjoy.

[Loce Imica Morn]

Here is team 151 (Tough Techs) animation: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3158719066947783630&hl=en

Enjoy and let me know what you think!!!

[Team56]

Yeah, animation.
http://files.aztekera.com/WHAT-IF-What-If-H.264.mov

Wow man.. thats amazing .. Great ideas, Great graphics

Good job guys =)

[BuddyB309]

Here is team 151 (Tough Techs) animation: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3158719066947783630&hl=en

Enjoy and let me know what you think!!!

Love the HP notebook style that you did. Very different from the majority.

[Setsanto]

Team 1334's animation: http://firstbasefrc.autodesk.com/?nd=m_first_competition_vis2008_viewer&fileview=orig/competition/669/1334/1team_1334.mov

For having to use an online converter to convert from .avi to .mov, and a built in microphone on an MP3 player for sound, the quality is surprisingly good.

~Setsanto

[fireball3004]

http://firstbasefrc.autodesk.com/ama/orig/competition/688/2090/RoboticsAnimation-small-.mov
Hurray the animation from team 2090.