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Re: Random thoughts that occur while watchin anims

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Originally Posted by 340x4xLife
Maybe they could have you guys do the Game animations each year or something.
Hey! Now you are stepping on my turf!!

Seriously, I really like the idea of a "meta-team animation project." It could be very, very cool. If any of you are seriously interested in doing something like this, speak up now. I will be more than happy to bring this up with folks at FIRST and see if they might have an appropriate project. Some possibilities that I can think of might include:

- instruction animations for advaned kit-of-parts assemblies (e.g. showing how to assemble the transmissions from this year's KOP)
- companion animations for the "Guidelines" documents, to illustrate basic robot construction concepts
- "message" animations that help illustrate the philosophy and impact of FIRST (including growth, history, distribution of teams, etc.); animated graphics with a lot of information content
- a "Super AVA" entry - take the basic Autodesk challenge, but see what you could do with it if you had six months instead of six weeks, and lots of animators collaborating instead of just a few folks on one team (e.g. establish the ultimate animation example to which others can aspire)
- etc etc etc

-dave
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