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Ryan Dognaux 07-12-2003 00:08
Re: What will this year's topic be?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt Hallock
Thirty seconds really isn't enough to define something that's not so generic.
And that's the challenge isn't it? ;)

It seems like FIRST wants basically an advertisement, so maybe we'll try hitting on that some this year, but guys just do what you want and have fun with it and know that you made something from nothing, cause that's basically what we're doing. We start with absolutely no idea of what we're going to do, and within 6 weeks time of long and tedious work (*cough* rendering *cough*) we have a finished product. Hmm.. kinda sounds like building a robot... only we have so much more freedom :)

gsensel 07-12-2003 02:14
Re: What will this year's topic be?
 
Actually in 2002, when they first started this, I was on the animation team of team 45 and we all basically agreed they are looking for a commercial that could potentially have air time bought for it. The usual limits for a commercial are 30 seconds and you would want all people to be able to understand what message is being conveyed.

Jeremy_Mc 07-12-2003 03:25
Re: What will this year's topic be?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt Hallock
The contest should be more about the person or persons ability to use the software, not the ability to convey a message. While an animation should make sense, to give them a closed topic like, "What does FIRST mean to you?" is shortchanging peoples talent. Why? You basically just told people to model their robot. The entries I saw before I came onto the Royal Oak robotics team were basically disregarded if it didn't have the following:
A FIRST logo
Something to do with their robot

A lot of the entries I saw (Speaking of the 2002 entries I saw) had excellent graphics and technique, yet they didn't place well simply because their topic meant something to them a purely them.
They're peer judged so I'm not sure why you'd say the topic needs to be changed as opposed to the way students judge?

I don't know if they still did this last year or not, but in 2002 they had an award for "Technical Execution" or something like that was the most technical and "pretty" use of the given software.

I don't really see how "What does FIRST mean to you?" is a closed topic. If they said "Tell how your robot affects your FIRST experience" or "Convery a strong message about the relationship between mentoring and the FIRST experience" then I could see your point of view.

Matt Hallock 09-12-2003 10:32
Re: What will this year's topic be?
 
I don't know, I just feel, "What does FIRST mean to you?" Is a dull topic. I'll still obviously try to get as creative as I could with it.

Tyler Olds 09-12-2003 12:22
Re: What will this year's topic be?
 
From talking to Ted Boardman over the summer, don't expect much change in the animation topic for atleast another year. Sorry guys........

Ryan Dognaux 09-12-2003 18:31
Re: What will this year's topic be?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyler Olds
From talking to Ted Boardman over the summer, don't expect much change in the animation topic for atleast another year. Sorry guys........
Is it just me, or could he play a really good Gandalf??


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