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Originally Posted by rrockafellow
I know everyone just now are starting to recover from the late nights but there is some thought of holding a Fall Animation competition here in Michigan along side the Fall Robotics league.
I don't know what rules would be in place but who would interested?
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Great minds think alike.
I actually came up with the same idea on my way home from nationals.
F.A.N.A.T.I.C.
FIRST Animators Network for Appreciation of Technology In Communication
Here was my idea:
The competition would have two segments. A four week "forum" segment followed by a four week "build". During the forum segment, there will be a weekly meeting, or forum so to speak, at an oakland county high school. At the forum, animators will give presentations and discuss animation, as well as eat pizza and drink mountain dew and cherry coke. Perhaps, if we're lucky, autodesk could give us some software or other goodies to give out and/or raffle at these forums. Anyway, at each of the forums there could be a specific area of animation we'd want to focus on, such as modeling, lighting, maps, etc. The forum schedule I have is: Thurs. Nov4: Forum Kickoff@Milford High School Thurs Nov11:Forum1@TBD Thurs Nov18:Forum2@TBD Thurs Nov25@TBD Build Kickoff: Sat, Dec2@OCCRA women's comp. At the build kickoff, the theme of the animation submissions would be announced. This means that nobody can work on their animation before this point. The deadline for the animations will be somewhere around the new year (maybe an all night animation party?), and judging (by the students) should by shortly after. Unlike with the FIRST animation award, there will be several awards to give out, possibly things like best lighting, best storyline, etc. The overall winner will then (hopefully) be played at the michigan FIRST kickoff.
Well, what do you think?