Voting

[jgoldfin]

Thanks DaveC, but i should have been on here earlier this week! Next year i'll be available much earlier.

For the regional voting process this year, as we are opening it up to ALL FIRST teams and not just teams with 3D Animation submissions, this is how it works:

One team can be associated with one region. You may vote for your own entry within that region (new this year!), but your team may only vote for one animation within the region which you are registered.

So to answer the question more directly, teams are allowed to vote once within the regional for which their animation was entered.

Let me know if you have any additional questions!!

jen

[Zuelu562]

Originally Posted by jgoldfin

Let me know if you have any additional questions!!

jen

To touch on the region, I have been selected to submit the entry and put up the team's vote. I'm not sure if our team (562) has been set up correctly. How would we tell what regional our animation is set for?

[jgoldfin]

Hi -

When the page is live, you will have to sign in using your team name and number, which will match the list of teams and regionals that we have.

Once you log on, the site will ONLY show the entries for your regionals.

If you think your team is associated with the wrong regional, let me know, either with my email that's in my signature, or email the team at first@autodesk.com

I have the regional that your team is linked to, so i can verify pretty quickly.

jen

[Zuelu562]

Alright. Thanks for the speedy reply. Good to know Autodesk is on top of this one.

[jgoldfin]

Peer judging is now open for the FIRST regionals for the Autodesk 3D Animation Competition at http://autodesk-firstanimation.skild...eerVoting.jsp:

PLEASE NOTE: we still expect to add a few more videos by Monday, February 21st for several regionals*. Please check back to cast your final vote by that date, in the meantime, please enjoy the entries for the Autodesk Award for Excellence in 3D Animation!

*we will list the regional name here as their videos get added: www.autodesk.com/first

[Bob Steele]

When we try to register we keep getting an error in the team number.... what do we use?
We tried FRC1983 and 1983

What should we use for team number or team ID?

R

[jgoldfin]

Please try again, it should be fine now.

[TomT_1517]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

When we try to register we keep getting an error in the team number.... what do we use?
We tried FRC1983 and 1983

What should we use for team number or team ID?

R

Just in case this info helps anyone else. We kept receiving an "error" page when submitting the form that registers our team to vote. Our team name, like many team names, includes the "/" character. When I removed this character and shortened our team name, the registration worked. I suspect that either our team name was too long or the "/" character was causing problems.

Anyway, it worked for us.

Cheers,
-Tom

[TomT_1517]

Just an FYI for anyone that happens to go to the Philadelphia Regional voting page. Team 1517 did NOT post a YouTube music video about drive-by shooting truckers.

We posted an animation about iikos and coconuts. Slight difference there.

Anyway, we're sure Autodesk is on the situation and we thank them in advance.

[jgoldfin]

hi -

The YouTube video is gone. We have NO idea what happened there, it's very bizarre.

Team registration issues - the mechanism that was in place had a minor hiccup, it's either in the process of being fixed, or its fixed now.

We appreciate your patience with us this year as we strive to continually improve the processes around the 3D Animation Award. it will get better, i promise!

And thank you so much for your passion and enthusiasm about animation, I am so impressed with what i have seen so far with the entries!

jen

[TomT_1517]

Originally Posted by jgoldfin

hi -

The YouTube video is gone. We have NO idea what happened there, it's very bizarre.

Team registration issues - the mechanism that was in place had a minor hiccup, it's either in the process of being fixed, or its fixed now.

We appreciate your patience with us this year as we strive to continually improve the processes around the 3D Animation Award. it will get better, i promise!

And thank you so much for your passion and enthusiasm about animation, I am so impressed with what i have seen so far with the entries!

jen

Yes! Thanks so much. We greatly appreciate the fast response!!!