Chief Delphi - Animators Unite

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- - Animators Unite (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19296)

I'll try to make it on Sat, but I can't say that I'll absolutly be there.

You peoples can still get together on Friday night if you wish, just make sure to post on the forums what was discussed.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...pagenu mber=4

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Originally posted by JPren

Thanks for all the compliments. Our animators, like many other teams, really put a lot of thought into the communication of our message.

As an Inventor designer, I also feel the lack of recognition for Animators and Inventor designers in FIRST. In the upcoming months, team 75 will be launching an online community for FIRST animators and inventor designers to promote, recognize and award exceptional animations/renders. Works wil be judged by both your peer animators/inventor designers as well as (hopefully) a panel of professionals. The lack of recognition for many animations at regionals and at championships is alarming; we need to encourage and reward all the animators and inventor designers whose work was left unnoticed. Besides giving out awards, we also plan to provide better ways to showcase these animations through television networks as well as securing an area of the pits at every regional to set up viewing booths (yes, with quality sound and screens) so that anyone can view these little animated wonders.

As Xavior mentioned, we need to start a sub-organization that caters to the needs of Animators and Inventor designers: mostly people who work hours upon hours behind the scenes.

In the upcoming months, I will be working with Autodesk's ADA (Autodesk Design Academy) program and I will lobby Autodesk support for our organization.

If it is impossible for Autodesk to better award/recognize all the great animations and are unwilling to make a greater effort, then I feel that we must be responsible for recognizing eachother and creating our own awards, prizes and ceremonies that we can present at regionals and/or championships. The fact is that most animators are involved in the autodesk animation competition because they truly love animating and wish to become better at it, not just for some autodesk award, but for a reward in the likeness of being "noticed" and complimented upon. What difference would it make for a team to win the "FIRST Animators award for exceptional 3d animation" compared to "Autodesk Visualization Award" if both winners were called down, their animations shown and given nice trophies?

As far as online resources go, the FIRST animators yahoo group has pretty much died off in terms of activity. CD boards are good for resources, but not properly suited for the needs of animators to post, rate eachother's animations and create custom tutorials.

If your team is interested in assisting team 75 in establishing this community, and wish to be involved in shaping the future of this organization, please send an email to:

JP Ren - jpren@rcn.com
Greg Liebowitz - greg@itmediaco.com

The temporary website is up -

http://www.eccentrix.com/members/firstg3d/

question....I have got 2 tutorials about 90% done. One's about materialing a controller interface, and the other is just an advanced materialing one. Who do I send them to when I'm done? Also are we going to have a 'kit of parts' in 3ds format? I'd be able to help out with a couple things there. If possible we could devide up the kit of parts so that ecah person gets only like 1 or 2 things to model.

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Originally posted by Soukup
question....I have got 2 tutorials about 90% done. One's about materialing a controller interface, and the other is just an advanced materialing one. Who do I send them to when I'm done? Also are we going to have a 'kit of parts' in 3ds format? I'd be able to help out with a couple things there. If possible we could devide up the kit of parts so that ecah person gets only like 1 or 2 things to model.

You can send them to me as default. I'll make sure they'll go were they got to go.

By the way peeps, we're still trying to get that contact list going
http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/viewtopic.php?t=10

Trashed20's http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/ is a good start for posting I recommend all people wanting to join G-3d (not just the creators) to do so by signing up. We'll need your input for the forums. We're doing this all for you.

It'll be our temporary forum until we move.

About team 75, well, I don't know what to say to that. I think we need to communicate with then to see what and how they are doing it's good to keep in contact with others trying to do the same thing, maybe we'll merge or something...

- Thanks xavior06 for the quote, it's hard to keep up to date.

As everyone should know, the temporary site is up.

http://www.eccentrix.com/members/firstg3d/index.htm

It's screaming for input.

That's all I have to say for 2 day-

I did a logo design.
I recommend having the other members design a logo as well and chose the best one.

The please send your logos is here:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/viewtopic.php?t=6

But yea, there is a contest- everything's due Fri to be judged on during the next meeting.

Please register to the forum so you can have a say in what goes on.

Thanks-

It's nearing time for Friday's meeting. Just wanted to mention when you join the newer forum to reply to both

http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/viewtopic.php?t=7

to define your role
and

http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/viewtopic.php?t=10

to give your contact info which will make things more organized.

Unless a sudden emergencey pops up, then I'll be there.

I'm reminding everyone that the temporary site is up. We need your content. Please sign up for whatever tutorial you'd like to do in the new forums. It's the content of the site that will make people join our guild and then add to it. It all starts now...
If you want to contribute but just don't know how to make a tutorial, I'll make a tutorial on how to make a good tutorial as soon as my computer gets working :( .

Any other takers?

Also people, I'm going by the number of active people in the new form to base the current number of members we have in G-3D. If you want to join it's-

http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/

Yeah, yeah, it's all over this thread. I'd like to have a good deal of content before summer starts.

We're in the last phases of getting this thing started. All we need is content and more members then let things fly.

I know some people are just waiting for the final site, but I say lets start small yet serious. I won't matter if we have a real host with a ".com" or ".org," if the spirit is in the temporary, thats all that matters... :)

I guess thats all I need to say for now.:cool:

i believe if we get autodesk's permission we will be working closely with them to create tutorials and workshops for both inventor and 3d max, im not sure how far everyone is on our team, but i will tell them to post an update here for you all, i believe we are still waiting to hear from autodesk though.

that site u guys are making looks pretty cool. functionality and content are important too, all in good time, look at CD.

l8r

We are in the content development stage so that means, less business right now. There doesn't need to be a meeting today or next Friday unless content isn't being created. I'll notify everyone next Wednesday but you could probably know by looking at the site if we don't have enough content.

It seems like a high goal but I'd like to be able to have a number of new tutorials for the site every week. You can claim your tutorial/content at:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/viewtopic.php?t=16

Like I said, I'd like tutorials to be generated rather quickly, but don't be rushed, quality is very important. I'll see by who signs up to see what kind of shape we're in. Also please go to http://members.lycos.co.uk/g3dfirst/viewtopic.php?t=10 so that you can truly be considered a member.

I'll check up with some of you to make sure things are going smoothly.

Till then-

Peece and good luck with content creation.

Well, I was just wondering when we will have a meeting.

Quote:

Originally posted by Koko Ed
I did a logo design.
I recommend having the other members design a logo as well and chose the best one.

just some constructive critisisim the 1st letter and the rest of it could use some antialiasing.