Soukup and stevek, I agree with you both. I'm also glad there are some possible changes in how things should be run. One of the whole purpose of me starting G-3d was to boost the quality of submissions with an on-line community that shared information in forms of tutorials, or question and answering in the forum. If we were to have a big membership by most of the animators of FIRST, I know our voice will be heard. There's no way they wouldn't. My dream with G-3d is for an easier way for the communication with the FIRST staff, and other 3D artist to have the 3d part of the competition have as much respect as the physical robotic part.
Despite the upset of this past year I'm going to bring the best out of my team to create an animation better than our previous 2 years. However, I won't expect too much judging and showing wise this go round because I don't want to be disappointed. Hopefully by that time, G-3d will have a great deal of active members to have a greater impact on future FIRST engagements.
I can't quite loose passion for the intensive few weeks, creating a movie just from from thoughts, skill, and shear computer power, resulting in the gained the respect of your team... ...If it's good. Because of this competition, I've learned so much about 3d applications and the knowledge will never leave me. I guess it's easy to after the competition, but the whole creation process. The mind racing, idea's flowing.... good times... can't wait till next year- I'm in charge !!
