[Chris Nowak]

I dunno, that was a pretty good concept and very good creativity on the part of 967...but I'm pretty pissed. The amount of work we put in to this is crazy. Everything in our animation might just as well been live footage. I probably could have gotten some footage of mars, or a bomb defuser bot, or submarines(for those of you who havent seen our animation, that stuffs iin there) and it would have been easy for us to get footage of someone driving the robot. And why not? It probably looks better than our animation. Because real life does look better than what most people can do in 6 weeks on a computer. This is an ANIMATION award....we could have done it in 1 weekend if we used real life footage...and all we would have needed was Flash and maybe premiere, screw 3ds MAX, it would be unnneccessary.

To be fair, however, it is mostly our mistake. Nowhere does it say we may not use liberal amounts of live footage, and Content and Creativity are both bigger than technical.

Maybe the title of this forum should be renamed to "Vizualization Competition".

Ah, forgot some stuff. About the lack of respect...I was extremely pissed that they didnt even treat this like a real award...they announced it and everything but they had shown the same video earlier on the einstein field for those of us who might have been watching. They eliminated all pretext of suspense and they even skipped right over the rookie animation award. What is the deal with that?