So who's going to submit a safety animation?
 

We're going to try, even though our two most experienced animators graduated :(

Yes, the deadline is ridiculously tight (Dec. 3), but if we keep it simple we might make it.

Here is the Safety Animation announcement from FIRST: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=59148

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We're going to try to do one this year.

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I have no clue how to do it, but I'll try.

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I think we are going to try as a way to start animation training.

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During this time of year last year, we were very low on animators, all of our veteran animators had either graduated or had not yet returned for the season. I approached a new member and asked him and he said he would try. He had to teach himself and spent a great deal of time making not one but two animations for us to choose from. He also spent a lot of time tweaking and finished the final animation just after deadline for submission.

I am *encouraging* some of our team members to think about this. We are in our final week of preparation before Capitol BEST and the focus is on that right now but maybe we'll see.

Even though we missed submitting our entry last year, the student had a wonderful time creating the animations and enjoyed the process - and - he gained valuable experience in a new area. I would encourage every team to submit. :) Animators rock!

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We are going to try to this year, as we have one returning animator and a couple new ones that want to try. The only problem is our computers and laptops are locked away in a school bathroom :ahh: , seeing as we are changing shop locations. :)

Hopefully we will be able to dig them out next week to get it started.

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We've got several problems of our own, but team 2090 will submit someting, even if it's total garbage.

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lol! Believe me, it can't be worse than the crap I'll muster up. We might have some new students coming in that may know about it.

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oh man, that is pretty rough, I don't think I can help but if you need anything... actually most of our problems are resolved for this year, but we wont have any computers to use next year, that'll be intresting.

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Do like the cavemen did for FIRST: moving rock pictures!

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Everyone strip off their clothes and run NAKED!
LOL! Oh i enjoy sending you guys teasers keeping you guessing what Winnovation is brewing this year.



here is a time lapse of the modeling of the hand. video

so far its 16264 polys, I know thats really large but thats after two mesh smooths divisions.

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TJ2 is in the process of getting our animation squared away, we are in the process of compiling and completing it right now.:cool:

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Great video Buddy, but it's too darn fast!

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We thought about doing it. Our team has never submitted a safety animation before. We had a subteam get together to do it, but they read the guidelines and decided that they could use their effort to do other things and get more out of it. We're going for several other awards, and before January we aim to build a new cart, some new transmissions, publish a children's book, and do some demonstrations in the community... so we're pretty tight on time.

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Team 1710 is working on an animation right now. We hope to have the animation complete by next monday and start rendering next week. We are also blessed to have two excellent animators on our team with the assistance of two Mac G5's.

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my FTC team should be getting inventor soon from FIRSTbase (yes FTC teams r going to get that) and im going to make one for fun and to learn inventor even though i cant submit:mad:

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our team is not looking too hot right now. I could do all of the safety animation but that would be entirely unethical. Our problem is that our animation team consists of 3 people from last year (and this is their second year) and 8 freshmen who are just about the squirreliest kids you could ever find. I would tell them to run around the building a couple of times to get rid of all that energy, but half of them are cross country runners. That doesn't phase them one bit.

I also think a major part of the problem is that we are only meeting once a week. Things will really pick up when the actual season comes around and we are meeting everyday.

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sigh, this is not looking good for team 2090, I think I'm the only one capable of working at home, and I'm sure buddy will atest to how inexperienced I am. Not ot mention how little gets done at our shourt meetings... we are in some serious trouble, especially considering that we need to mail it on december 1st because we are in hawaii and it takes forever for things to get to the mainland, even express.
But I have a quesiton and I know it's off topic, one of my team unistalled 3DS MAX and tried to reinstall it but it insists the license expired... additionally have they opened up the new licenses? cause we are borrowing computers again, and these only have the 30 day trial... this is bad...

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I haven't been to Dakota Ridge High School much this semester since it's off-season but I believe Team 1799 is.

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I've had that problem too, You need to delete the license file that is in your C drive. I its a hidden folder. Goggle it for i have forgotten where it is locatted.

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Alright, a diffrent member of my team has a computer that runs vista. I figured that disabling the display composition, running it in compatablity for XP, and runing it as an admin would do the trick but it's still no good, I looked it up online and with no better success, I got the same advice. Any suggestions on how to get it to run? It opens to the welcome screen but freezes before it can display anything.

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I have windows vista Ultimate on my computer and 3ds max 8 runs fine. It actually runs better than it did on windows XP. I have not installed 3ds max 9 on my computer so i don't know if it will run. I'm reluctant to install 3ds max 9 because if i use my 3ds max 8 files and import them into 9 it completely screws up my models. There is no way around it, if tried so many things, but for some reason it is only my copy of 3ds max 8 that has this bug in it.

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Is anyone here using Maya or does everyone use 3DS Max?

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Well 869 is just finishing our safety animation. We are going to submit it and see if it gets any usage.

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Autodesk released a patch to address the Vista bugs a while ago. If you Google "autodesk 3ds max 9 vista service pack", it is the first option that pops up. Hope that helps.

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Just be glad you have an animation team.... Us Nebraskan's only have 14 members total, but I'm still going to try to enter.

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1094 is, and Pete knows my troubles with the team.

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So does anyone know if we have to put credits on the animation? If so, how is there a length requirement? Do they have to be at the begining or the end or both?

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heh heh.... credits. There isn't anything in the rules about how long credits can be. Well there isn't anything about credits yet.....

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Exploding Bacon is very excited to have Skyler and Chandra join our team as animators. They moved from Colorado and they actually know what they are doing!!! I think we will have something to submit.

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Still chugging away at this, It wont get done for the safety animation but I was expecting that. I fear that it wont get done in time for the AVA. I have so much that needs touching up.

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we did one, and already sent it... Hope it gets before the deadline... u.u

kisses

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when are these animations due? i'm stuck doing the who thing for my team... but i'm not even the leader...

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The deadline for the safety animations was just recently extended to December 10, 2007.

More information can be found in this thread - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=59759 :)

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Yay for deadline extensions! I suppose its time I make my first post somewhere on this vast information exchange. Out team (1643) had two animators, both rather inexperianced, but we are happy with our result. This is the first time either of us (Him and I) actually completed something to submit.

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Well.. thank god for the deadline extension, our team wouldn't have made it in time to finish the safety animation. Speaking of animations, it's been such a long time since we did submit.. anything. Meh, but our safety animation is really something! I can't wait to see what other teams have to submit. The characters in our animation are soooooo cute!

On a side note: BuddyB's model gave me the finger. D:

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This is the first year our team is entering the safety animation contest, and I have some questions. What is the format that the animation should be in on the dvd? Do we just put the file on a dvd or does it have to play automatically like the movies you get from Block Buster?

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I burned it as a true movie DVD. I figure they will be able to play it one way or another.

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This will be the first-ever animation submission by Team 980. Two new students just started working on it. They attended the animation sessions of the SCRRF workshops held at CSUN earlier in November and the Autodesk 3ds Max software was just downloaded last night. I think they'll do a great job and I'm excited to see what they produce.

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Well kind of late to start now wouldn't you think? We have been working on this animation for the whole time and are not even done yet. Tonight we showed our first preliminary rendering to the team without voices. We recorded voices tonight as well. But I think this is the best product our team has ever produced animation wise. Well good luck to all of you.

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Buddy, I have to say that looks pretty good. That is some high quality modeling there.

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anyone know what kind of file and the file size and all that fun stuff for the safety animations?

i dont want to make something so big that they wont accept it..

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1699 has one in the works!!! This is our first year animating, and I am hopeful for the results!!!

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Whoa! slow down partner. Standard broadcasting definition is 740X480 NTSC thats what a standard Tv plays. I would render it out in that size. I personally like the quicktime animation compressor. It does a darn good job at keeping the quality of the animation.

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Thats right everyone!! Your worst nightmare hase come true. 1699 is now taking over animation!!! Next step... THE WORLD!!!! ---aka, we're gunna submit a safety animation... and we're gunna lose.. Go 1699.............................................. ........woot

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You can't lose if you submit an animation. Even if you don't win an award, your team wins by just doing it.

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gee.. that was corny...

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Whoa, hang on there bro. That is not corny at all. Making an animation is quite an achievement for anybody. I congrats all of the animators that submit an animation on time. You must be more aware of your what you post on chiefdelphi. You are not representing yourself but also your team. So next time be more aware of what you're portraying you and your team to be.

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Sorry, i didn't quite wrap the [/sarcasm] commands around that one. It's hard to show sarcasm on the internetz.

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Yea that sarcasm thing tends to be quite difficult on the internet.

On a lighter note my team has finished their Safety animation and it is going in the mail today...if my team coach mails it...He has been known to be forgetful. But yea When I get another copy I will post on here so you all can see what our finished product is.

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We're getting our animation ready. For next year.

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it's terrible, there are no mouth movements, and I don't even know if it will get there on time... but we will be there

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BUDDY POST YOUR "dont go there girlfriend" POSE!!!

and MORT has JUST finished their animation and is about to go walk down to the post office to priority mail it now...

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Ok if you insist.

Don't go there girlfriend!


He's not in the safety animation but he will be in the AVA entry. I still have to finish rigging his hair and get his mouth ready for lip animation, which is gonna take a huge amount of time. Then its off to character animation! Which i plan on spending as much time as possible on. This rig i have is made for dancing, there would be no way you would be able to accomplish this with a biped. (well you could but it would be an ultra pain in the neck.)

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That's great! Even though I encountered some problems with my biped I managed to fix them and finish our team's safety animation:D

I heard that they would be eliminating AVA regional competitions. Is this true? There is no way my animating skill could compete with that! I guess I'll just keep practicing though.


Also, I believe I spy his pants clipping into his shoe;)

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I spy with my little eye another clipping issue near the top ;)

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Team 1676's submission is now the intro to our website, which is www.team1676.com. I think it's pretty good for 3 people animating it.

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Here is MORT Team 11's safety animation. It's our first year doing a safety animation and the entire thing was done by one person... (me).

YouTube

comments and crits are much appreciated

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Team 1726 made an entry this year; you can download it at:

http://www.project1726.org/2008web/p.../2007-2008.php

This was created by 2 of our members and mailed off last Friday (hope it gets there in time!)

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3 MB? wow... mine was like 105 MB after i compressed it...

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That was just the super compressed windows version; we have an .avi that's about 150MB, but I didn't want to wait half an hour to upload the video (we have somewhat slow internet... ;) ) Hope you liked it!

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thats really impressive. Great job

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The mentors told me that our animation was sent in on time, even though it was a bit procrastinated for a few days, lol. I'm sure I trust their credibility :P. Anyways, here's our animation. http://www.vimeo.com/427590. Hope you like it!

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Wow, i love this animation just b/c of how smooth it is. Nice job guys!:]

Nice and simple message. The voice of the teacher/safety person sounded like it'd be something out of south park. very nice work.

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I was given this by the Royal Assault Animation team to post. Any feedback you have would be welcome. Hope everyone enjoys it!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H5Q3s6V5K_o

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interesting.........Nice concept. Its the most creative way of expressing safety in i've seen.

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I'm uploading team 1746's safety animation to YouTube right now ;)...

I must say though, I absolutely love the safety hero one...haha...very awesome concept, and well executed too!

Good job everyone! I see some tough competition to beat!

-Chris

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Okay, here's the team 1746 animation entry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG-D2F_ShE

Let me know what you think!

-Chris

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LOL, wow! great job! Thats is the first safety animation to make me actually laugh! Your comedic timing is excellent! You did a very good job capturing the character of Dean. This is the best one I've seen so far.

If I had to find a fault, I'd say the character animation and lip synch on Dean needs a little more work. His head moves a little to slowly and smoothly. Normally you want to make the head movements slight and jerky, but not too jerky and not too slight. (as you can see its a difficult concept to understand). One thing that can really help is really listen to the voice recording. I see you were fortunate enough to have talent for a good voice actor. Try to emphasize on the ups and downs of the voice. It really brings the character out.

That walk cycle of the man carrying the latter is spot on! You've improved greatly since your last project. I can't wait to see what you will dish out this year at the AVA competition!

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Very funny. Dean will be so proud. Is that Woodie with the ladder?

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Haha, thanks for the review!
Yeah, the animation of Dean was complex, especially in the time we had to do it! I learned a lot along the way though, and if you can tell the animation got better towards the end. I truly think in the beginning I made the movements of the head too big. I need to make movements, but nothing that large.

Also, the lip syncing was difficult because the speech was fast, so it was hard to move the lips to something where the speech was somewhat slurred.

Haha, its not meant to be Woodie, but now that I think of it, he does look like him haha...

But regardless, thanks for the positive comments!

I'm glad you all enjoyed it!

-Chris

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Wow! I am impressed Magiciandude and talltree357 and TheOtherGuy. You guys did an amazing job. After watching those I threw ours up onto YouTube in case you all want to see something a little weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFotLn_ze7A

Nice Job Teams!

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Wow Geekzilla201! Awesome job! I especially loved the Aperture Science logo on the crate haha!

Awesome job though! You fit a lot of safety concepts into that short 30 seconds ;)

-Chris

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wow, im seeing some really great animations here. I'm kicking myself for not having Ted Bordman in time for the safety animation. He's almost ready for the AVA though. So all of you better watch out ;)



Lip synch is my thing, contact me and i can tell you all about it. the main thing is that you want to hit your Ms, Ps, and Bs a frame or two before the actual sound.

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One word-Amazing:D

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Thanks Chris. That was one of the problems we faced while making this. We wouldnt talk fast enough to fit it into 30 seconds.

BuddyB309, I agree, there is a lot of good stuff here!

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You know, I love your animation, really it's superb and comical. How organized is your animation team might I ask? I hope ours gets organized in time for the main animation. It wasn't that well organized back when we did the safety animation this year, and honestly I had to rush the rest of it in the end (took about 6-7 days to put this all together, minus the side modeling). I would really love to know! :D

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i still haven't been able to open this one with firefox..

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Testament-Doom, Thanks! Our animation "team" consisted of myself and one other who is not the most organized person in the world. I have no idea how we are gonna do the main animation in our current state. I'm sure we will manage somehow.

Also, for anyone else here, I am curious as to what system you all are doing these animations on? Hardware, specs, jokes?

Mine is:
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+
4GB DDR2
ATI Radeon 2900XT
1.3TB Combined
ViewSonic G90f CRT
Windows XP Pro x64

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Yea, that is a problem for me too (although it works fine for everyone else I know using firefox... weird!)

Here's a direct link, you can just right-click save as and it should work!

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it would seem like a good idea to start a new topic on this stuff. this doesn't deal too much aboooot safety animations

and TheOtherGuy- thanks a bunch man, good looking out.

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Hey everyone!
Good luck to all of the teams that entered the safety animation contest!
We find out who won tomorrow ;)!

So...in complete repetition.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! May the best one win!

-Chris

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Congratulations team 1726!
Great job this year on the animation!

I can't truthfully say I'm not disappointed about losing, but hey, thats life ;).

So...
Congratulations once again!

-Chris

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I'll second the CONGRATS !

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What were these animations judged on? What criteria was it?

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No one knows. They don't release that unfortunately :(
but its my guess that its based on the story-line, considering that its a SAFETY animation competition, not an ANIMATION competition...also it said when they released it that they like nice clear audio. And they tend to pick ones with a narrator...they usually always have anyway...
-Chris

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There is now a .mpg version of the 2008 Safety Animation available, if you're having trouble with the .wmv version


http://www.project1726.org/2008web/p.../2007-2008.php


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