[Archon]

I am not one of the members on the movie team, but I am very close to all of them. We were (obviously) all ecstatic that we won. Was it fair that we did? I am going to go out on a limb and say that it probably was not. The almost complete lack of cg art was the reason that we did not win at regionals, and we made it into nationals because we were selected by a panel of judges who thought that the movie was worthy.
As a rookie member, I'm not completely up on what usually wins the award that we recieved, however it seemed to me that they were looking for a movie that effectively and beautifully used multimedia to convey the message of FIRST. To this extent, I think that we did a very good job, but the work we did was not equivilant to the amount of work that is needed for good 3ds max animation.