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.

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by 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...

remember these people are taking their personal time to do this. remember gracious professionalism

[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?

[balloons]

Originally Posted by Chexposito

remember these people are taking their personal time to do this. remember gracious professionalism

He just wants to see the finalists...i don't see that being non-gracious professionalism ( or however you want to call it) I think he's just concerned because world's is almost here...

[3DElizabeth]

Originally Posted by Chexposito

remember these people are taking their personal time to do this. remember gracious professionalism

I don't agree that this is the case, this competition may not be a focus of Autodesk it appears to be a business decision. The Autodesk agreement this year that we signed to turn in handed all rights to the content over to Autodesk. This competition and the growth of the educational website are a part of a marketing campaign. I appreciate the competition for my students. It's a great experience for them. My disappointment is that the competition criteria were changed 2 weeks into the competition and consistently criteria is not released on time.
It seems as if perhaps in being so focused on what the students, that it is assumed they should be flexible to whatever circumstances are handed to them. As a mentor I understand students need to learn how to be flexible but as an adult it is disheartening to know that my time isn't respected as valuable. Spending many hours working with the students to have almost 2 weeks of preproduction wasted this year because criteria was released late was disappointing.
I agree that complaining is not a professional means to show reverence to a sponsor, however I also believe that mutual respect needs to be considered to both the gracious company providing the competition and the gracious mentors and volunteers who dedicate themselves to teaching students that company's applications.

[scrubsfan1793]

I really wasn't trying to be disrespectful, i mostly just wanted to know if i was just totally missing finalists that were announced.

but i really do think that with just a week left, they should have announced by now...

[Kevin Thorp]

Last year Autodesk announced the finalists on April 8, exactly 1 week before the Championship event.

So, if history is any indication, we might get an anouncment tomorrow (April 21st).

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Chexposito

remember these people are taking their personal time to do this. remember gracious professionalism

FIRST is handled mostly by volunteers as well but if they took as long to release division imagine the heat they'd be catching by now. When Autodesk signed on to run the contest there are expectations to handle their business in a timely and professional manner. If they are incapable of handling the task then they should turn over the duties to someone who can handle the responsibility.

[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.