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Posted by IXsoNicXI.

Student on team #56, Robbe EXtreme, from BBHS.

Posted on 6/2/99 4:45 PM MST


In Reply to: 1999 Animation award posted by dave on 6/2/99 4:20 PM MST:



Well, I worked with Dave on this animation as well, and for anyone to say that we didn't put a lot of work into it, well then they obviously never used this program. I just want to thank th people that posted backing us up until we could find these posts. And as for you other guys, complaining about it being realistic, as Dave said, realistic, and having an attitude. If you watched, the first 15 seconds of that animation were very realistic, hell, we even had the TV marking in the bottom right corner! The robot did what we made it to do, we kept it smooth, and we kept it real. The grind incorpterated our team's theme with the animation. I didn't get to see many of the animations, but I saw the runner up, and the rookie animation. They were both really good, and I'd like to congratulate them. The reason I think the runners up did not win was because their robot and what it did, or work the theme into the animation.

Now as for time spent, you have no idea. hell, that's the main reason my g/f at that time dumped me. I was always working on the animation, and she got pissed. It's also why I quit my job. We were there every weekend, almost every day of the week, working our butts off to make the animation look like that. Yes, we had 2 engineers helping us, but this was my first year on that program, and Rob and Dave were there last year, so i was the rookie, although I didn't know the program I got to work too, so don't go and say that the engineers did everything so that we won, because if that was the case, I probably wouldn't ahve been allowed in the room with them.

The music may have helped us as well, me and my friend Felipe wrote the music to go along specially with our animation, that may have helped us also, the music was perfectly timed with the animation, which shows coordination.

I, just like Dave, did not expect to win this year, I joined the team tolearn how to use this beautiful program. The winning was an added bonus of the hard work we put in on the animation. Our animation is going to be a lot better next year, I can tell already, just beacuse we will be spending as much time as we can on the program once we recieve it. It just raises the starndards for next year. Now for you people who keep bashing our animation, there are 2 things I have to say to you, 1) Just because we won doesn't mean you have to be jealous, I'm sure you worked hard on it. And 2) It's too late to change the final judgement on the animations this year anyway, so keep it in, and try to beat us next year. Good luck!

IXsoNicXI