Is Animation Plaguerism active?

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Posted by Hymnson at 04/09/2001 3:34 PM EST


Student on team #419, The Rambots, from Boston College High School and UMass Boston and Modern Assistance Programs, Inc..



I'm not trying to start trouble but if you view Team 419, The Rambots animation video from last year's competition and you view one of this years Animation's finalists submission (Team 151 i think). You will notice very close similarities and even the exact same "catch phrase" that I came up with last year and was even printed on our jerseys last year. grrrrr. "A force to be reckoned with."

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Posted by Matt Ryan at 04/09/2001 5:48 PM EST


Student on team #69, HYPER, from Quincy Public Schools and Gillette.


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Posted by Hymnson on 04/09/2001 3:34 PM EST:



Hymnson, I think Team 151 used "A force to be reckoned with." before the Rambots existed, so its more like the Rambots using a slogan THEY made. I'm pretty sure there were many teams who put a variant of that phrase into their animations, again before the Rambots were formed.

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Posted by Kyle Huang at 04/10/2001 4:22 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Gunn High School and Sun Microsystems, Nasa/Ames and Xerox PARC.


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Posted by Hymnson on 04/09/2001 3:34 PM EST:



things like slogans and catch phrases can't definitively be stolen, in my opinion. who knows who had that kind of thing first? GRTs robot has been named G-Force since 1998. There is a rookie team called "G-Force robotics." but i have heard people make reference to Gael Force as G-Force, which was around before GRT ever used that name. nobody meant to steal anything.

as far as taking conceptual ideas, of course it always happens. many animation teams try to mimick elements of previous winners (sparks, bullet time). but thats the way it goes. you know the saying, goes something like "good artists borrow, great artists steal"

PS. watch GRTv's 1998 animation. about 10 MB MPEG file

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Posted by Kyle Huang at 04/10/2001 6:25 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Gunn High School and Sun Microsystems, Nasa/Ames and Xerox PARC.


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Posted by Kyle Huang on 04/10/2001 4:22 PM EST:



ok, i don't know where the link to the animation file went, but here it is again:

http://www.gunnrobotics.org/grtv/GRTv98-TheCatalyst.mpg


: things like slogans and catch phrases can't definitively be stolen, in my opinion. who knows who had that kind of thing first? GRTs robot has been named G-Force since 1998. There is a rookie team called "G-Force robotics." but i have heard people make reference to Gael Force as G-Force, which was around before GRT ever used that name. nobody meant to steal anything.

: as far as taking conceptual ideas, of course it always happens. many animation teams try to mimick elements of previous winners (sparks, bullet time). but thats the way it goes. you know the saying, goes something like "good artists borrow, great artists steal"

: PS. watch GRTv's 1998 animation. about 10 MB MPEG file