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Here's what I suggest: Forget the deadline, complete your animation, and use it for PR. Its good the get the experiance and it will help train you for next year. This way you can also do the best job that you can.
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I actually am hoping to get some advanced models done by the time the compo rolls around, that way I can have some renders shown off in the pit, as well perhaps a clip of what I am planning to do......
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There's a chance that the theme will be changed next year and all your efforts will go to complete waste though. I feel your pain, I am the only animator on my team on what I was told to be a rookie team, although we are not since I learned we had a disqualified animation last year, this is my first year with robotics and such.
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Yea, I was pondering what would happen if the animation parameters changed, but then again, its not likely, since it has been the same for what? 5 years? But even if they do change it, it will probably still be around the same lines as the previous years.....
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These animations can't realistically be blockbuster motion pictures in six weeks, considering teams of 30 people take eight months to make parts in movies that may only be five or ten minutes long. Being that you are on your own, next year I'd suggest aiming for lower goals. You'll be very competative with rookie teams, since the other rookie teams just got the program as well.
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Well, i think that I have gotten more experience with the program than other teams, I have been teaching myself it since last summer, with Max5, and now hopefully I can put what I have learned to the test this summer.... BTW, another one of the reasons that I decided to stop the animation was because I was starting to have a lot of problems with my penguin rig, it never seemed to work, I must have spent a good 4 hours trying to fix it. Even in the end it still was messed up in some places (for example, when I moved the leg, a part of the mess would shoot out of its shoulder
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Anyways, I am going to bring up the new idea, and basic outline of the short movie (now about 5-10 min long hopefully) to my team, and see how they want to do it.....