Breaking Animation Standards...

[Ranma]

Hi, we just recently compiled our video today, and since I wasn't there to supervise the process, it turns out that they compressed it to 320x240!!! And it's due tomorrow and the teacher's gonna mail it off in the morning before we get to school!!! And we kinda messed up on the credits because we forgot to change the name of the song to the one that we're using right now!!! Is FIRST gonna be nitpicky and disqualify us because it's too small or cuz the credits are wrong? And also, we have an intro sequence that says, "This animation was made by the blah blah blah", it's supposed to be just a filler, but will FIRST consider it part of our 30-sec animation? Or can we tell them exactly when our animation begins and ends? Thanks for answering my questions.

[Excelsior12]

Well, "first" of all, FIRST doesn't actually judge the animations... Autodesk does. And they have a reputation for being VERY VERY picky. Odds are if its not the right size they won't even play it.

But I wouldn't worry too much about that, because if you used a copyrighted song in your animation, it doesn't matter whether you credit it or not, because Autodesk NEVER EVEN SEES the credits; they don't watch them, they don't judge them. Unless you have written permission from the person who holds the copyright, you can't use it. If it's a copyrighted song, and someone catches it, your automatically out.

[Sunny Thaper]

We don't even like to use music anymore. I think that the music choice might effect the judges as much as your animation. If they don't like rap or country and you use pricisely that then you are out in their minds.