1. The music area is always a little shady. I know that the judges don't go around and check for copyrights so the only reason they have that rule at all is so if they air your animation and someone states that the animation used music without persmission, they won't get in trouble.
2. The requirements are stated as 640 x 480 Uncompressed Avi, 640 x 480 Cinepak Codec, or the final area is you are disqualified.
3. That depends on what you think it means. I don't want to say too much about ours just yet but we do make it obvious what first says to us but we don't just flat out say "First means all nighters in a dimly lit room with many geeky guys" or something like that.
4. We are going for realism to a certain degree. We don't want the animation to look like it is Final Fantasy real but we do want it look more real than say Crayola colored boxes.
5. I am not sure about this one but I think you turn in a CD for national judges and California is having it's own little Regional animation thing which you submit seperately for.
6. I liked last years winner (except for the fact that it wasn't us) because they pulled their animation off with no visible detractions or errors and they took a "cool" looking animation and added humor to it. There have really been three types of animations I have seen for the most part: basic (just starting out teams), special effect (firey explosions and such), and humor filled animations. Last years was a cross between special effects (character and modeling) and humor (the ramp not balancing) and because of that it scored buca points.
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