Which animations by which teams do you think have over the top technical excellence?
It may not nessarily be a winner - it might lack creativity and content - but its certainly a very good demonstration of the technical skills some teams have accomplished. I'm interested in which animations(Team # and year) pushed the envelope in technical excellence.
I personally find the AVAs a bit more biased towards message/creativity - the way it should be - rather then technical superiority.
I'll start off by nominating several teams.
Team 25 this year had a very well done animation technically - although it never won a regional. The modeling and texturing was excellent.
Team 192 had superb animations in 1998-1999 - remember that these animations were built using 200 mhz computers and below.
And finally, I think my own team (#114) did an excellent job technically in 2002 and 2003.
Links:
192 Animations -
http://ianhenderson.org/grtsite/animations/
25 Animations -
http://www.raiderrobotix.org/media2.html
114 Animations -
http://engineer.la.mvla.net/robotics...page=animation