I'm sorry you didnt see a message in our animation, it wasn't a particularly strong one, but it was there. The main idea was that creating a robot in FIRST involves the use of right and left brain thinking. The animation starts off with the character walking towards the robotics lab, with the camera in "realisitic" mode. The camera then goes into the right side of his head, and switches to a cartoon type view, which represents how the world is seen by the right brain only. Then the camera goes into the left side of his head, at which point the world transforms into wireframe. This represents the world with left brain thinking only. As he opens the door to the lab, the camera goes back to realistic (how the world looks normally, using both sides of the brain). Then the robot scene in the lab is supposed to represent creation itself, which requires the fusion of right and left brain thinking, or as our title states, "fusion of creativity and ingenuity". When we put the final animation together we didn't realize we could've written a full statement, which would've made the message more clear.
While the message is a large part of the judging process, obviously animation itself is too, which your entry seemed to lack. The judging for the Rising Star award is done by professionals and the regionals are judged by student animators, which is why it shouldn't be a huge surprise that you could win one award and not the other. Perhaps the professionals were able to see our message more clearly than the student animators did.
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Originally Posted by Lev
Maybe someone from teams 955 and 1489 can post a link? If webspace is a problem, i can help.
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We don't exactly have any place to host our animation...check your pms, I'll try to find a way to get it to you
