Team 548 here, this is my first year on the animation.

For now I just have tapered boxes for bins, and the robot is not modeled yet.

Also, the website says 640 x 480, but could you do a widescreen 640 x 360?

Added Xavier to the stage scence but are having the hardest time getting his bone structure to come along peacefully (it's invisible!!!:( ). THe reason the lighting looked so washed out in the first picture is because I set up an Omni light on the frontside so you could actually see what was happening. We took it down in intensity and turned it blue. We just have to attach the camera and figure out how to get XAvier to move to scratch and we can film the scene.

Send me the .max file, I'll see if I can help you.

to my knowledge...640x480 is what they want. Now..2 years ago blizzard (188) exported to widescreen for the animation but their credits were 640x480. It was pretty amazing. But they didn't win. I would think that you may not want to screw up your chances of winning by changing the export settings. Email autodesk to find out!!

Team 384 Update
 

Our team is hard at work at our animation..

I'm sorry I can't give you any teasers for ours yet but it'll be a good one...

Expect the Unexpected...

Team 108
 

It's not that great, its just a small preview of something we're up to...It needs a lotta work...argg..Everything needs a lotta work.. :ahh:

i really like the amount of detail that you have put into this model...it's awesome. I think if you tweek the materials (My monitor is making your image look fuzzy should it could be really sweetly materialed...)It will look double-awesome.

also...

Brandon made a thred somewhere's here's a link to it in the computer graphics thread under some team's animation teaser.

Anyway...post your pictures in the new animation gallery...and then make a post hinting that there is a new pic.

i dont mean to be rude, but it seems to me that every team is doing a space-moon-mars rover-reentry animation. that really seems boring to me. our animation is about hte total opposite of that.

im really tired of seeing a spaceship fly to earth, land in houston and have ur bot bash into the Wall-o-Bins. hopeful my team can make it to nats so we can win the animation award.

thats just my opinion and im a roookie so it probably doesnt count for anything anyways

:p

All I have to say to that in response is...Nice!

haha, aw well. I'd like to say that our animation involves no spaceship landing in houston. It involves a space station and a robot...That pic is the back of said robot....Muahahhha...alright, Im done ranting, off to teach the middle schooler's 3ds max. Auf weidersehen

ahh yes despair.com my favorite is the one that says it takes 24 muscles to smile, 14 to frown, but none to sit their with a stupid look on your face.


well our animation will ceraitnly stick out from the space theme.

also, wont putting that on ur robot break some copyright law or something ;)

Matt111 Post :P
 

our animation is between USA and Brazil as we are a brazilian team, we will try to show up something about our country and make a very simple animation (far from space) :p

i'm just thinking about our time because the animation must be February's 22 or 23 (not sure) it will be hard for us send our animation earlier then other "USA teams" :rolleyes:

this is our fourth year and just our second animation so we don't have much experience or time to do it :)

Re: Matt111 Post :P
 

Hahaha, you know what's funny? Last year's winner, team 114 I believe, had not only space in their animation but they also had microscopic life (robotic life actually) as well. You guys should learn from last years winners, the best ones didn't even include a robot in their animation (shameless plug). Oh and don't think I am being all high and mighty or anything, just trying to help out. Also, I understand that you can't change your animation now. In fact, if you are offended by my post, my name is Tyler Old, not Sunny ;)

the fact that someone thinks that our animation is a space seqeucne...bawahahaha...You know nothing. The mars rover is part of our animation...but not in the way that anyone can make a connection to. So in about a week i'll post another teaser..and then...you'll have absolutely no idea what it's about until the finish.

I made this hint earlier and I think i'll make it again:

take 1 stadium
+1 robot
+10,000 sreaming fans
+not that much time to render
+a mars rover sequence??
= pure genius (maybe)

There is no outer space sequence in ours. We just dropped in the space background behind the stage picture so we don't have to look at absolute black all the time.