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I agree
I agree with you that animations which focus on the robot are not very good, because I interpret the goal of the animation award is to demonstrate exactly what FIRST means to the team, and unless a team is full of entirely robot crazy ppl(they would not even have an animation probably) an animation should not focus on just demonstrating the robot. We are probably going to have only a few seconds of the animation with our robot in it, to show that building and operating the robot are important aspects of our team but not the only thing we feel is important about FIRST. I don't know I'm remembering correctly, but it seemed like the winning animation last year could have been done 90% ahead of time.
This could also be attributed to the fact that we currently have more involved students on animation than any other team. I think we have around 7 members(on animation) and we usually get alot of people interested. So really, its not very wierd for us to be starting this early as animation will probably be focused on equally as much as our engineering team next year. Also, we are trying to avoid the debacle we had last year where I spent the entire last night rendering stuff on 5 computers, only to end up with 22 seconds of animation and no time to do more.
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