Posted by Rich Spadaccini, Student on team #177, Bobcat Robotics, from SWHS and IFC.
Posted on 4/29/99 3:32 PM MST
In Reply to: learning experience posted by Sean Kim on 4/28/99 4:59 PM MST:
Ok Well ill say our animation is 100% student built as well, mainly becasue i was the only student involved in the animation this year and the entire team.
I've been readin gthe posts and i agree to an extent with some of the comment sbut believe that engineers and/or advisors are needed to complete the animation the first year its done. Speaking from experience my first animation received a 38% from teh judges, which i thought unfair at the time but now looking back i would give it a 25%. YEs you put a lot of time into your animation but you have to admit the judges did a good job and followed the criteria very well.
Every year there are better animations as kids learn more about the programs they use and i can honestly say mine is the best this year. I put in more hours than i can count and yet still worked on the robot. The winners were betetr than mine and i can see why from a point of view, while i will defend mine is the best because i put so much time into it the winners were good. HAs anyone ever tried to make a human? I have and it took me so long. And the first place one was just technicaly superior to most and made it look better with teh special effects at the right place, not explosions but effects
YEs this was winded because i had a lot to say, just try harder next year. I have valued my aniamtion experience a lot and have learned more about the programs than i ever imagined, and realize that FIRST is about learning and you do learn when you try to animate
Finally if you want to see what one studen can produce check the aniamtion at this link
http://198.82.97.30/Animation.htm I warn you it may not paly because it was compressed from 180 megs to 3.4