[Morgan Gillespie]

Mike C. the person who did the entire animation last year by himself, (In curve editor!) left leaving the animation seat blank, I came to the first meeting and saw a sheet for animation and I used to do graphic (pixel) art and make simple games and GIF animations and modded Halo PC things in MilkShape and had always wanted to get really into animation but never really had someone to teach me. So I signed up for animation and started going to their Saturday meetings and fell in love with 3dsm, from the day I got it I continuously run it, testing things, looking up tutorials, testing ideas and the such. Mike C. started with basic lessons each time I would come back each week showing what I did, spending up to 25 hours testing things and learning a week on my own then 2 at the weekly meetings. Basically he found someone to hand the torch off to, but I won't let him let go him and I don't think he wants to. We worked side by side this year bouncing ideas off to create our animation. Our Adult mentor Mr C., Mikes father cooked up (heh) a great idea, Mike B did a model and Mikes sister did the music, and a few other students did the story board. We hope to train them all over the summer. Having 5 or 6 trained animators would be amazing!

Honestly I think you should advertise Animation as itself and say it is part of the robotix team. A lot of things contributed me to join the robotix team. From showings they did at the high school, LEGO camp, my 6th grade math teacher, many things but most people aren't like this, they most likely don't know about it, get the word about it and they will come!