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Unread 14-04-2003, 20:06
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we weren't expecting to win this because we didn't really get a chance to see previous years entries until after we were finished, and we realized that ours was maybe what wasn't expected. it definitely suprised us

I think we probs got high marks for mixing different types of media into a good final product. We used many programs to do this:

Autodesk 3ds max for the model of the robot and the final scene where bins were knocked over - Peter Wong and Eric Lee (me)
Adobe After Effects for the text - Matt Craig
Adobe Premiere for transitions, putting everything together - Matt Craig and Eric Lee
Virtualdub (free product!) for converting some clips - Eric Lee
Adobe Illustrator for logos, title screen, and end screen - Peter Wong
Adobe Photoshop for logos, title screen, and end screen - Peter Wong
Tmpgenc for mpeg conversion - Eric Lee

For people that say video is easy...it's not either... we took hours of video before we found good quick clips

We did sort of run out of time, and barely got this sent in. Next year Matt and I return so we both hope to dive deep... deep...deep (like blackstreet - deep.mp3) into 3ds max over the summer, so at least half of our visualization can be animated. We like the use of both video and 3ds max.

You have to understand the situation that we didn't have a computer capable of running 3ds max until december when i (and some others) assembled a computer (recommendation: dual athlon mps). We had very little time to learn the program. We basically only had my computer (that i built also) and our school computer that were capable of running the program. If you wonder why we weren't rookie team winner, it's because i forgot to check mark the box on the application.

I scored the visualizations at st. louis so i saw many of the entries, and i admit i thoroughly enjoyed them. Team 1182, excellent job! They actually won our regional, and i did pick them. Great work, great message, great animation!

thats my take