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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
There's a chance that the theme will be changed next year and all your efforts will go to complete waste though. I feel your pain, I am the only animator on my team on what I was told to be a rookie team, although we are not since I learned we had a disqualified animation last year, this is my first year with robotics and such.
What I suggest to you is you do what you have now, and turn it in, it's probably better than you think. This is actually a problem I've encountered with myself on this animation. I kept thinking it wasn't good because I'd spent six weeks with this thing. After awhile I just wasn't phased by how it looked for some reason. Your efforts over the summer would be better expanded if you got away from the animation and tried new things, even if they failed I guarantee you would learn a lot more than just sticking to this animation. These animations can't realistically be blockbuster motion pictures in six weeks, considering teams of 30 people take eight months to make parts in movies that may only be five or ten minutes long. Being that you are on your own, next year I'd suggest aiming for lower goals. You'll be very competative with rookie teams, since the other rookie teams just got the program as well. |
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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
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).......Anyways, I am going to bring up the new idea, and basic outline of the short movie (now about 5-10 min long hopefully) to my team, and see how they want to do it..... |
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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
the PR idea is excellent and I can't believe that I didnt think of that.
And the theme has only been around for 3 years. Before that the requirments were to just show your robot and the game. This theme has gotten used a little to much so I would almost EXPECT a change next year, if not the year after that. |
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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
Yea, I might be making a small preview to show at the 2004 compo.....
But I was thinking again, perhaps if I did make this short movie, I could have the animation be a "commerical" for the movie (which would be based on our values). And then, in the pits I can have like "showings" of the movie like every hour or so using a data projector..... And maybe even make a small 1-2 minute trailer to be playing continuously to get people interested in watching? I personally think it would make a lot more people interested in the animation competion (and perhaps help FIRST realize how much time we put into these animations?)....... BTW, the trailers, movie and stuff would sorta be based on Black Hawk Down, except without the blood and gore and extreme violence.... If you want to see what the trailers are like, and what I am shooting for, go here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/columbia/black_hawk_down/ |
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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
We are in the home stretch for our animation. We may make it, we may not. But it will be done. We've worked too long and hard on it to just give up and forget about it.
You owe it to your team and yourself to finish the work you started. Awards are nice but they shouldn't be the sole reason you do FIRST. You'll be better for it if you finish the work. |
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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
The animation isn't the sole reason that I am doing FIRST, in fact I am disapointed that I wasn't able to do as much as I did last year for our team then this year cause of the animation.....Thats why I will probably work on it this summer, even if the criteira changes, I will still be using what I make for reels to show to colleges and stuff; thats also another reason why I want to win this award, it would be pretty impressive to put on a college resume....
BTW, does anyone know any good links on how to develop a really good short story? Or any books that are good? |
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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
Well, me and pras870 are now going to be working together on this movie, more details will be posted later.... But this picture I uploaded is the final render (without texture) of my "rushed" UH-60 Blackhawk, the model for the movie is going to be completly redone....
Last edited by MConte05 : 22-02-2004 at 01:32. |
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Re: Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....
Yes, it is offical, much like teams #60 and #254 collaborated on their design this year, teams #1098 and #870 are collaborating on an animation.
Many of you know from this post, Matt decided to not complete his animation this year because it was not up to his standard. Me and him have been chatting ever since he asked advice on audio to use for the animation, and have developed what I would say, is quite a unique friendship. Because of this, I'm fully behind in supporting him on his decision to release his animation next year. Not only that, but I will be collaborating with him to make his vision a reality. We will be working together on a daily basis to create possibly the most visually stunning piece of animation FIRST has ever seen. Not only visually stunning, but we're hoping to create a message that will encourage future participants to join FIRST and have a great time doing it. We have only begun on this collaboration, which will be a year in the making. We plan on making a 15 minute animation with complete stunning visuals, an amazing score, ear-bursting sound effects, and a message that will hopefully encourage many more students to join FIRST. Of course the actual animation submitted will be in a somewhat commercial format, with the entire 15 minute animation hopefully being shown at Nationals 2005. We will of course, keep you updated, since this is only pre-production ![]() |
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