Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I encourage you to make that 10 minute movie, but can you imagine hundreds of teams submitting 5 -10 minute HD videos? Judging would take forever and data uploads would be through the roof. 30 seconds is enough for commercials to tell us a short story, sell us something or get a message across. Some better than others. Creativity is as much about constraints as anything else. My 2.5 cents.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

It's easier to promote a product then tell a story in 30 seconds though :P If it were just a minute long it would be a lot nicer. But, it is as it is so that's how it will be ;)

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Is there any information on the submission? I know it's a bit early though. :)

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

How about make that 10 minute movie, cut a :30 trailer for the competition, and share the full-length version with the rest of us through this forum? I know we'd love to see it!

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Interesting idea. Today we totally changed our format though so we got a new story type to fit it in the time limit. We are still planning on the short movie though :D That'll be a summer project though.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Is there a volume max/min for the animation's soundtrack? I didn't spot one in the Award specification and I didn't see one in the YouTube guidelines.

-Dave

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I don't see anywhere mention of length of the credits in the rules. Am I blind or are there no restrictions? I just see mention that they won't be judged but no limit on how long they have to be.

Also, it says it must be rendered at 24FPS. Why is that if the standard is 32 FPS in film and 3DS MAX's default is 30 FPS. Is that to try to keep it at the 50MB limit?

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Well, I believe that every soundtrack should at least be "normalized". Before you apply the soundtrack in your video editor, you can either find a normalize plugin for your video editor,

or install Audacity (it's free btw) and use the normalize plugin that comes with the install. :)

What I have done in the past is render the animation with 30fps, and in the video editor, save the video as 24fps and the included specifications. :)

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I've done that too but then it looks a bit slow. Probably easier then trying to figure out how many FPS to animate by when you are trying to multiply by 24 ;) but still, I'm curious as to why it's set like that.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I'm pretty sure that the length of the credit sequence is unlimited as long as the file size requirements are met. :D

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I think 24 fps is the standard for film, not 32 fps. NTSC and PAL use 24 (well, 23.98) fps as well.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

I guess my dad has his camera set too high :P He got an HD one though so that might explain it.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Pardon me for awakening a dead post, but I have a question about the 3D Design submission. I understand that it is to be a :30 to 2:00 video output from Autodesk Inventor Publisher, but are we allowed to use any effects programs for some of the finer editing points?

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

JD,

That is actually a great question and thanks for asking it.

As we are looking for the submission to be in a .mov format, there is opportunity for utilizing other programs to produce that output from the original Inventor Publisher .avi file. We are looking for how your design or subsystem works so you can certainly provide as much information as you feel is needed in the video as long as it shows your design intent. This is not meant to be too much like the animation award but we understand you may want to refine things a bit so please do what you feel is needed to make the design clear and concise as well as give credit where it is due. :)

Look for more from Phil Dollan in his upcoming webinars about the 3D Design Awards and let us know if you have more questions.

Hopefully that answered your question.

Kim Campbell-Djuric
Autodesk, Inc.

Re: Excellence in Design Awards, sponsored by Autodesk 2012
 

Hi -

The submission PROCESS for the Excellence in Design Awards has been posted today, Friday, February 17th:

http://students.autodesk.com/ama/ori...ionProcess.pdf

Teams can sign up now and register on the appropriate sites to submit, in order not to have to do this part at the last minute.

Jennifer