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Posted by Justin of team #146, Team Blue Lightning, from West High sponsored by Public Service Company of New Hampshire.

Posted on 4/27/99 6:21 PM MST


In Reply to: Disappointing Animation Judging posted by Mike Dubreuil on 4/27/99 1:53 PM MST:



We haven't actually submitted an animation in the last few years but I've
continued to be interested in the Animation end of things and keep track
of the competition. I has always been my gripe with the Animation comp.
that Autodesk is looking for an award that clearly demonstrates how the
machine will act, and the supposedly judge very heavy on the ablility to
communicate, when I do not believe that they themselves have mastered this
skill. They have told the teams what they actually want in the animation.
It usally seems like they want realism and for teams to show thier machines
performing the tasks they will be designed to perform...after all the whole
point of this software is to use it as a design tool. However the teams
who interpret things this way end up very surprised when they see Billy
Bob selling his robots (btw I happened to like that one ALOT) or a robot
grinding down the rail. I also felt that Billy-Bob should have one over
the team that did as the character animation is ALOT harder than the particles
that the CEO of Autodesk was apparently so impressed by. I think that if
they are going to give an award for communiation they should make sure
that they can communicate effectively themselves first.

-Justin

P.S. Congrats to the the honorable mentions + the winning team you all
produced animations far above the quality of anything I could produce
BRAVO!!!