[Li Jianliang]

Now I wonder how the First Round of Professional Judging picked the animations that didn't win Regionals. Obviously they didn't pick a second animation for every Regional (56 total - 33 regional winners = 23 animations) but looked at all of them and chose another top two dozen or so. Does anyone know? Whether Autodesk had to have 56 animations for the national competition or was it more like, nominate all of the good animations that didn't win Regionals?