Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I'm curious as to why you decided to do that this year. Is it because there were few animations submitted at competition?

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Not very GP to exclude the team from Puerto Rico and the 32 teams from Quebec.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Some Regionals had more participation than others. If a Regional only had 1 entry they'd win just by showing up!

I'm disappointed there are no Regional awards, but they have increased the National awards - 20 finalists, 1st, 2nd & 3rd place, plus a rookie award.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

@GeorgeC - We didn't want to exclude anyone, but some a provinces like Quebec have very, very specific and detailed requirements for contests, and we were not able to include them at this time, we did explore the options. Unfortunately, this happens very often to Quebec residents in many contests, not just ours. (I happen to be from and based in Montreal, QC)

@Mongai -That's pretty much the case, there were quite a few regionals last year that only had one entry, and we also had a lot of comments that there wasn't enough time to put together an animation in 5 weeks, especially for rookie teams. Since the voting for Championships had no input from the regional awards anyway, we chose to focus on Championships, build comprehensive training material, create an online platform for voting and sharing content, and opening up a few more categories that all this would make the competition and the entries even stronger.

We are always looking for feedback to make things better, so please continue to ask questions and post your comments on the forums, we read them all!

Best Regards -

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Just to be clear - we can submit to the Championship award without necessarily being at Championship right? [Also being in London doesn't disqualify us right?]

Thanks.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

@Gnishi2011 - Correct on both counts.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I've been looking all over the place for the Iiko rig, I've downloaded every file off of the STEAM site and still kind find the Iiko.

I have last year's Iiko rig, would it be okay if I used that one if I can't find this year's?

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Did you set the folder as your central directory? I haven't downloaded it yet, but I assume it's "IkoRig_MaxProject" as it was last year. Anyway, if you set it as the root of your project and open the scene in the folder, the iiko should be there, I think.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I seem to have an error to the extent of "Cannot find DLL "CAT.DLC"." It is telling me that i don't have the most updated version of CAT, but i have installed and reinstalled, and used the repair function of autodesk 3ds max 2012, the newest version on their website, multiple times. I'm just curious if anybody else is having this problem, or maybe i simply downloaded the wrong file. The file that i'm trying to open was from http://curriculum.autodesk.com/stude.../project_id/34, and the file name is "03 Rigging - Iiko rigged CAT"

If anyone has any information about this, or if they're experiencing the same problem, i'd love to know. Thanks.

Oh, and i also ran a quick search and found that i do, in fact, have the cat.dlc file, yet the error persists.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I am having the same problem. I asked on Facebook about it but no replies yet. I was just coming here to ask it.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I found a mesh of the iiko but no rig for it this year so yeah, I'm just using last year's rig.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

The ONE thing that always has irked me and I would literally jump for joy and so would the rest of my team if you changed it, is the time limit. We have and AWESOME story plot this year and last year as well (it's hard not to with the Iiko ;) ) but we have less than half the time to do it in. We feel limited and held back by the short time limit. Last year, our animation quality was good. Modeling was great and so was the animation but overall was choppy because we didn't have enough time to concisely state our point in the time given. This year, we are going to have to cut a lot out in order to keep it short. Even if you extend it to 1:00 that would really make life easier. It's hard to do some of the shots we want to do in only a few seconds when they really need around 10 seconds to make it look good otherwise we are going to run into the same problem as before and it's going to be choppy.

Now this might be because, at least this year, we are going with more of a movie style animation instead of the usual narrated story and not as much comedy but more dramatic feelings. If you'd extend the time limit to 1:00-5:00 that would be a lot easier to work with.

If you could PLEASE change it for this year I would be sooooo happy! I realize you might be trying to make us have to do cuts but if we were to do what we want with the story it could EASILY end up being a 10 minute short movie. If you don't extend it, we probably will make it anyway just for fun though :D

Just a thought. :]

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Not that this is what Eagleeyedan was saying but has anyone noticed the extended time to work on the animation. I'm reffering to the entry period from February 17th to March 30th. This means we have about ten weeks instead of the usual 4-5 weeks.

My team is excited to get the extra time to develop a stronger story, maybe this year we'll actually create some materials from scratch or do some sound editing!

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I did not realize this - so we have from now until March 30 to complete the animation, and can upload it starting Feb 17. I thought Feb 17 was the deadline!
Good news.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I read the award cover to cover several times before believing that it wasn't a typo. We should see some more intense and developed animation this year. I hope ours is on par with everyone else's animations.