Seriously?? No Finalists Yet??

[scrubsfan1793]

Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but are there really no finalists yet for the animation competition??? Because Nationals are just about a week away and id like to see all of the ones that are finalists before we see the winner next week...

[Kevin Thorp]

Yeah... sigh. That's typical for Autodesk.

It's great that they sponsor this contest, and donate free software licenses. But it's frustrating that they're always late publishing the rules and announcing the finalists.

We just have to be patient.

I wish they weren't so isolated from the FIRST animation community. I don't even know if they check this forum.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Kevin342

I don't even know if they check this forum.

I think you'd be surprised just who checks this forum. And how many whos there are. And how often these whos check this forum.

[Nevets Amstier]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I think you'd be surprised just who checks this forum. And how many whos there are. And how often these whos check this forum.

Like cindy lu who, and the who's who of Who-ville?

Jk

[Kevin Thorp]

[mangagirl41]

Love that movie, one of my Fav's in the animated film biz.
My fav from Pixar is Toy story and from Dreamworks is Kung Fu Panda!!!
Anyone else wanna tell their favorites?

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Kevin342

I don't even know if they check this forum.

Wow, that's rather rude. For the record, yes they do:

Phil Dollan has been one of the main liaisons and is quite often available for contact, but there are several others working with him on CD:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=34885

They all do an amazing job considering their time frame, the quantity of their judging group, support, etc.

I am just as anxious as everyone else to hear about the CAD and animation top 6 results, but bashing people isn't going to speed up the process...

[scrubsfan1793]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Wow, that's rather rude.

I am just as anxious as everyone else to hear about the CAD and animation top 6 results, but bashing people isn't going to speed up the process...

Wow, settle down everyone! Did you stop to think that maybe this person did not legitimately know whether or not Autodesk checked CD?

And nobody here is trying to "bash" Autodesk. Sharing a bit of criticism isn't a bad thing. Many people simply are expressing that they think Autodesk should be announcing things earlier.

[Kevin Thorp]

Thank you scrubsfan.

I and the others on this thread are not trying to be rude. We are just a little frustrated by the lack of communication from Autodesk at the beginning and end of this competition. I hope they take these posts as constructive criticism.

[jgoldfin]

Hi everyone,

As you have noticed, we did have some changes in process during the 3D Animation competition this year, and we are aware that this resulted in some confusion at times. Some of this had to do with new people (like myself) coming on board the project, and we were also doing our best to streamline things as well to try and make it easier. All i can say is, we learned some valuable lessons for next year, and it will get better.

We do have a few things planned for this year to share the results of the competition with everyone.

I'd like to start by saying thank you to the 168 teams that participated this year. The entries were amazing, and we are very pleased with the way everyone ran with the idea. I hope everyone has looked over all the entries, you can find them here: http://autodesk-firstanimation.skild.com/PublicVote.jsp

For our regional winners, we are in the midst of compiling a highlight reel with all the winners that will be available on YouTube and linked from the Autodesk Education Community - this will be available by Monday, May 2nd. We'll also provide a full list of all reginal winners.

Also, for the Championship finalists and winner, we'll be providing the list of the top 8 entries, along with the industry judges who selected them, on or before (not the winner of course) May 2nd, on www.autodesk.com/first

I hope that clears up some confusion, and i do apologize for not responding to your posts sooner.

Best Regards,

[ktress357]

I just have two questions. First for the Excellence in 3D design, not the animation part, will the finalists be announced before championships this weekend. Also will the winners of the award still be announced at championships?

[scrubsfan1793]

So does that mean that the #1 ranked animation will be announced and awarded at the national event?

[jgoldfin]

The 3D Animation AND 3D Design awards will both be announced at Championships this weekend.

After reading all your posts, we are working on posting the 8 finalists for Animation before Friday, as well as a summary of all the regional winners and overall videos that were submitted.

Thank you -

[Bob Steele]

Jennifer,
Will you be posting the 3D design award finalists also on or before Friday?

thanks!!

bob

[jgoldfin]

Hi Bob -

There won't be any finalists for 3D Design, the way the competition was structed there wasn't any this year.

You will see the results of the winning design on the community!

Jennifer