Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

What's an animation? ;)

We don't have one for this year, but we are anticipating one for next year. (Hopefully we actually will... :))

Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

We have three very dedicated animators, two students and one mentor. This year they had something go horribly wrong. The night before the animation was due they began rendering, and the computer crashed and lost half of their animation. They stayed through most of the night and came back at 5 AM the next morning to finish it and submitted it on time. Despite what happened it was the best animation we have ever had.

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It's nice to see some of you got mentors though, I didn't have one (I was partial to not wanting one either).

Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

1 person doing the actual animation...
like 6 people doing voices......

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Our animation team consists of 3 experienced members and 2 newbies. We also had one other guy do music and another guy helped us with misc. stuff like neworking, flash, etc. So although our credits will say 7 people, only 2.5 (yes, .5, sadly, one guy's computer was too slow for him to contribute as much as he could have) were really able to contribute significantly to the animation...

Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

whats an animation team?

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I believe we had around maybe 5 people total. But only 2 of us actually worked on the animation itself. The rest were just thinkers and such. True, they do have a purpose. But only at the beginning. ;)

Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

Our team technically has 5 people that work on the animation, but most aren't proficient enough in the software to put out work up to the level we are going for this year. In the end it was me and one other guy that put together the whole animation.

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We have 2 seniors (including me) that did most of the work for this years animation... we also had two "minions" that watched what we did and had them do some minor things with our animation to get them "aquainted" with the software... hopefully they'll do fine next year without us!!...*crosses fingers*...

Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

We have one dude do some modeling and sounds
-- one modeled and rendered the scenes
-- one modeled and created the music
-- I textured, modeled, animated, put it all scenes into one movie, and rexported in .mov form, basicaly everything else.

I also say good luck to my team because half of us are seniors.

Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

Two semi-rookies with what they themselves call "no experience."

We're quite proud of them. =)

The plan is to expand next year, but no one is quite sure how that's going to work out.

-Laura
Team 30
HTHS's FURY

Re: how many people are on your animation team?
 

just one guy... does a great job though

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We had 5 members on our animation team. No extras for sound or editing, just 5. 2 experienced, 3 new. And a somewhat inexperienced mentor. In fact, we often had to steal a mentor from engineering who used to do animation to help us. Oh, and the hardest animation idea we've ever concieved, an incosistant method of distributing the workload, and only 5 weeks to do it (school was closed the 6th week, it needed to be finished on Friday the 13th). with all of the management issues, it may be better to have a one person animation team. but I believe having a larger team serves a greater purpose. Last year, we also had five members. This year, one went to the chairman's group and one to the engineering (one quit). This year, three of our new animators are planning on moving to engineering. Although it's bad for our animation team to lose so many members to other parts of the team, it's good for the cause of FIRST. I never would've wanted to go into engineering before I joined FIRST, and I probably wouldn't have joined if it wasn't for animation. What this does is attract a larger audience to the FIRST community, as well as teach a quickly growing form of communicating theoretical ideas and possibilities, as well as displaying events in history.

Back on topic:
I was the most experienced member of our group. I had been working on character studio all summer so that we could put people in our animation. In retrospect, I believe it consumed far more time than it was worth. One of the big "sellers" (so to speak) of our animation was going to be a roaring crowd at a FIRST event in the beggining of the animation. One member spent the entire time animating people cheering, clapping, and jumping up and down as if in a crowed. To make a long story short, we couldn't get it to render at the last minute and ended up just using a picture of a crowd. Once again, in retrospect he could've been working on cameras and lighting, which were both very last minute in our animation. Oh well, hind sight is always 20-20.

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Team 648 has ONE (1) person that does the animation. He does it by himself, without any help from a mentor, in his free time. (by the way, he's graduating this year)

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I'm impressed with anybody who does the animation in their free time, outside of robotics. In many ways having only one person on the team is easier, much less managing needed. However, the fact that one person can work on the robot and do the entire animation is astounding. Good work!

On a similar note, team 406's animation was done by one person (with a little bit of mentorship on my part), in one day! :yikes: Sure, it was certainly not a great animation, but considering the person who made it had never made an animation before and considering the time, a congratulations should be extended to 406 (although, I don't think anyone from the team is a member of the forum. oh well).

Anyway, to make a long story short, great job to anyone who does the animation by themselves. You likely show more dedication than many of your teammates who make the robot.