[stevek]

Sounds like a great Idea.

I'm game at getting some Connecticut Teams involved.

One Sugestion:
How about atleast 2-catagories. One with Video and one with animation. Teams can enter one or both. The AVA Rules state a 30sec Student Animation, but based on last years winner this was interpreted differnetly. So how about an "All Video" Cat, A "Mixed Media", and a full "3D Anim Cat"

The Way I see it"
The "All Video" would be all video edited.
The "Mixed Media" would be similar to last years animation
The "3D Anim" Catagory must contain 30sec of full animation, but can include composite footage as long as its within a prdominately 3D Environment.

This way we can expand on the technologies used and give each one a fair chance to win.

Another Idea that we can test out- Have an Online Polling System. I spoke to some Autodesk Reps last summer at the Chairmans Award Winners Gathering at FIRST and Deans House. They considered alternitives to the current student scoring method. One Idea was to have online voting. There were a few Ideas as to how to do it, we can discuss if anyone is game. This will also help to include everone in the process, practice for judging other animations, and eliviate the work on the group of people that would have to prep and judge the animations.

Just a thought.