Is it better to have a couple very skilled mentors and/or students create this, or a bunch of teams with various skill levels?
With many different teams working on this project I wouldn't expect to see Academy Award level work. But it still could bee a lot of fun.
I assumed the various teams would email their finished Max file to a central "director". He/she could merge or Xref them all into one scene and do the lighting & cameras.
Perhaps have standards everyone has adhere to:
- Units set to inches
- Have a maximum character/robot size (60" x 36" x 30"?)
- Have a maximum file size or # of polygons
- No special features than might excessively drive up the file size or slow down the render times.
If "I Like to Move It" is too difficult to keyframe maybe we could do the Macarena. Yes it's cheesy but it would be hilarious to see all the characters lined up dancing to it.
A robot with wheels or tracks and maybe a pivoting turret & gripper would be relatively simple to keyframe.
(just throwing out ideas)