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Vague meaning, but it's there

I disagree about our animation not having any meaning.

Originally, the evil robot knocking down buildings was supposed to break them into neatly stackable containers. Then our robot was supposed to stack the knocked over buildings back up. Due to time restraints, lack of experience, and long rendering times we had to go with what we had.

Our statement "Technology to Save the World" is very simplistic and doesn't require much interpretation. It's just like cartoons where the heroes save the day from some evil monster destroying the town. It would have been more obvious if we had our robot stack the buildings back up, but the only role our robot played was as a transport for Clucky.

That scene does have something to say about our robot though. It's extremely fast going up the hill to knock down the stacks, and a hill is shown in the animation with our robot racing toward the buildings. Our autonomous mode time from activation to contact with the bins averages under 4 seconds easily.

If you didn't notice, our sponsors' logos were in the distress spotlights before they merged into our ThunderChickens logo. The meaning is vaguely there, although I think we could have done a better job making it clearer or more relevant. Overall we put too much emphasis on humor rather than meaning. The problems I had with our animation were we tried to squeeze too much into a short amount of time, some scenes lasted longer than they should have, other scenes weren't long enough, bad camera angles in some scenes, some scenes were never modeled/animated but were vital to the animation, and the overall cheesiness of the whole theme.

To sum it up for those who didn't catch it, our animation's intended meaning was our technology can save the world with the speed of our drive train to respond to distress signals instantly and our stacking ability to restore a demolished city.

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