Team 116 Animation Competition

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In light of recent events, Team 116 will be hosting an alternative Animation award competition this year. The prompt will be announced on our homepage on January 5th, the same day as kick-off. The prompt, like previous Autodesk animation prompts, will require each team to identify and solve a problem. We intend to organize a board of impartial judges, who will rate all submissions according to creativity, ingenuity, clarity of production, and mastery of the animating process.

A change from the previous award: all forms of animation will be accepted, including, but not limited to, the use of 3dsmax, Maya, claymation, stop-motion animation, and flip-book (two-dimensional frame) animation.

We will have a homepage for our award up by next week, with additional information therein. We look forward to hosting this new award, and we hope you will participate.

[Kevin Thorp]

That sounds great. There are so many creative students passionate about animation, it would be a shame to let this aspect of FIRST fade away.

There are a number of other teams and individuals also organizing various types of animation contests. Would it make sense to get together (online), discuss different ideas and come up with the best plan?

Another advantage of a group effort is you have multiple people to help implement the plan; develop rules, create PDFs, website, trophies, help with training, etc.

[Andy Baker]

This is OUTSTANDING! Teams can still create and compete with their animation skills, and even use new forms of media and software!

Great job, Epsilon Delta!!

Andy B.

[RoboMom]

Kudos to 116 for stepping up to do this! I hope you can get FIRST HQ to distribute the info.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Awesome! Just forwarded to our Animation Team Leader. We had a conversation on Wednesday about creating our own competition.

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Originally Posted by Kevin342

That sounds great. There are so many creative students passionate about animation, it would be a shame to let this aspect of FIRST fade away.

There are a number of other teams and individuals also organizing various types of animation contests. Would it make sense to get together (online), discuss different ideas and come up with the best plan?

Another advantage of a group effort is you have multiple people to help implement the plan; develop rules, create PDFs, website, trophies, help with training, etc.

We are certainly open to joining forces provided we come to a consensus within a certain amount of time. There are obvious constraints on the time available before kickoff. We encourage teams that are interested to comment in this thread.

[Aamid Ahbab]

It depends on the scope of the competition. If it looks big and good, I might have my team try for it or I'll try to help in some way shape or form.

[tvictor3dart]

I am a little taken back by the lack of an animation competition this year. I went to college based on my experience competing for the animation award. I chose to major in Game Design and Animation because of FIRST.

But what's done is done I guess. As a mentor now for Team 230, I would like to say that Team 230 supports Team 116's animation competition and will definitely be submitting.

In the mean time, can we stir up enough attention to get the award back? FRC and the animation award have literally changed my life and to not have animation award is unfortunate knowing how much it effected me and the potential it has to do the same for others.

[JohnHelfen]

Hi Everyone,

My name is John Helfen and I work for the Secondary Education team at Autodesk. I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that we support the efforts Team 116 is going through to run an animation competition this year.

I also wanted to provide everyone with some great resources for learning 3DS Max and Maya.

Two new resources have been launched on the Autodesk Area website.

Resources for M&E Students: http://area.autodesk.com/students

Resources for M&E Educators: http://area.autodesk.com/educators

We also have feature a series about character creation in Sketchbook and Maya on the M&E EDU Blog: http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/edu

Finally, I wanted to let all the MAC users out there know that we have recently added Autodesk Smoke (http://usa.autodesk.com/smoke-for-mac/) to the Autodesk Education Community (http://students.autodesk.com).

I hope this information will help students while building for the competition.

Thanks,

John

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Originally Posted by JohnHelfen

Hi Everyone,

My name is John Helfen and I work for the Secondary Education team at Autodesk. I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that we support the efforts Team 116 is going through to run an animation competition this year.

I also wanted to provide everyone with some great resources for learning 3DS Max and Maya.

Two new resources have been launched on the Autodesk Area website.

Resources for M&E Students: http://area.autodesk.com/students

Resources for M&E Educators: http://area.autodesk.com/educators

We also have feature a series about character creation in Sketchbook and Maya on the M&E EDU Blog: http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/edu

Finally, I wanted to let all the MAC users out there know that we have recently added Autodesk Smoke (http://usa.autodesk.com/smoke-for-mac/) to the Autodesk Education Community (http://students.autodesk.com).

I hope this information will help students while building for the competition.

Thanks,

John

Thank you so much for your support. We are truly grateful for everything Autodesk does for FIRST and its animators.

Also, we would like to thank you for your efforts in creating new and improved resources for Autodesk software users. We will be using them during the build season to help our team members better understand the nuances of Autodesk software, and Smoke will be of great use to our Mac users.

Again, thank you.

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To all who are interested in helping us create this award: we would like your input on matters regarding judging and the prompt. If you're interested in helping, please drop us a PM and we'll send you the information.

[Euriiko]

Thank you Team 116! I'm passionate about animation and I'm so happy you guys are willing to organize this! I agree that it would be a shame to let this aspect of FIRST fade away.

[ajc4nn0n]

Any word on the competition? Will the prompt still be released on Saturday?

[noahtm]

I was really upset to hear about there being no Autodesk Awards, and our Animation team is looking for a challenge this season. Team 2481 is on board with any competition you or FIRST creates!

[smity]

We look forward to hearing the challenge Team 116 develops. Thanks for stepping forward!