Team 116 Animation Competition

[ncwitte]

Team 1504 is interested in participating.

[agomez470]

Team 8 is also interested in participating in this challenge. Is there a link for the challenge?

[MerrimackMatt]

Team 166 is also applauds your initiative and is eagerly awaiting the challenge for this season.

[116anim_award]

Sorry for the delay. The rules are up on our website here. We'd like to thank everyone for their support and we look forward to seeing your animations! Please check back often for updates.

[tvictor3dart]

I just want to say that Team 230 is using this opportunity to continue to support the animation portion of FRC. We have a really passionate group of kids interested in animation and digital media and we want to be able to spread the word that FIRST shouldn't be just about the robots and the game. Our society today is obsessed with the latest apps and digital products along with amazingly detailed visual effect in movies. The next generation of visual effects artists and animators are the kids who are exposed to it before they get to college. Having real world tools at your finger tips gives the students such an advantage and it would be foolish to waste the opportunity.

I have contacted the university that I graduated from to try and get them involved as well and potentially offer scholarships. I have yet to hear back from them and I plan on bugging them a little more about the issue. Again I was able to take advantage of this opportunity when I was a student and it completely changed my life (literally, no joke). I want to be able to continue that opportunity for students who might not be interested in building robots, but building stories through video and animation.

Thank you again FRC Team 116 for putting on this competition and if you need any assistance regarding the animation competition please feel free to contact me and my team and I will try to help as best we can.

[takeegan]

Originally Posted by tvictor3dart

I just want to say that Team 230 is using this opportunity to continue to support the animation portion of FRC. We have a really passionate group of kids interested in animation and digital media and we want to be able to spread the word that FIRST shouldn't be just about the robots and the game. Our society today is obsessed with the latest apps and digital products along with amazingly detailed visual effect in movies. The next generation of visual effects artists and animators are the kids who are exposed to it before they get to college. Having real world tools at your finger tips gives the students such an advantage and it would be foolish to waste the opportunity.

I have contacted the university that I graduated from to try and get them involved as well and potentially offer scholarships. I have yet to hear back from them and I plan on bugging them a little more about the issue. Again I was able to take advantage of this opportunity when I was a student and it completely changed my life (literally, no joke). I want to be able to continue that opportunity for students who might not be interested in building robots, but building stories through video and animation.

Thank you again FRC Team 116 for putting on this competition and if you need any assistance regarding the animation competition please feel free to contact me and my team and I will try to help as best we can.

Ditto

[Dancin103]

Team 103 is interested.

[116anim_award]

The Rules have been updated!

The most important change was to the name. In order to release our Rules page to the public in time for kick off, we put Team 116's name on it and left it at that. However, this award isn't created from only our efforts, so we wanted a more universal name.

Besides that:

Storyboards are now optional. Storyboarding is the first step of the design project in an animation, but often times we don't write our storyboards down on paper, nor do we need to. It's a nice thing to have, but there's no need to submit one.

We added some specifications for the movie file and clarified the copyrighted material section.

Also important is the resources section at the end. These links were provided by Autodesk earlier in this thread, so we consolidated these links for easy access. We'd love to add more to it, so if anyone would like to offer more animation resources, let us know and we'll put it in!

Stay tuned for more updates!

Team 116

[wendymom]

1902 Exploding Bacon is jumping in this contest. The kids were storyboarding tonight. Can anyone guess which fairy tale they chose?

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by wendymom

1902 Exploding Bacon is jumping in this contest. The kids were storyboarding tonight. Can anyone guess which fairy tale they chose?

I am willing to bet that it involves three of something...




-dave



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[beags917]

Hi guys,
I know it's great that there is a new animation competition, but has anyone heard about a new CAD Competition?
If anyone knows anything about this, that would be great.
Thanks

[ncwitte]

Hi, I had a couple of questions. The first is a general question about copyright. I know that the rules state that we're not to use copyrighted materials that the team or team members "do not own". If we have a license to use the copyrighted materials, is that sufficient?

On a related topic, and this might be better addressed to John Helfen, will Autodesk permit us to use the iikos? Obviously, the iiko is their intellectual property and since they are providing the challenge this year, if they don't grant us a license, we can't use them. I was hoping for some clarification on that score.

Thanks, and thanks again Team 116. You're winners in my book.

[116anim_award]

Originally Posted by ncwitte

Hi, I had a couple of questions. The first is a general question about copyright. I know that the rules state that we're not to use copyrighted materials that the team or team members "do not own". If we have a license to use the copyrighted materials, is that sufficient?

On a related topic, and this might be better addressed to John Helfen, will Autodesk permit us to use the iikos? Obviously, the iiko is their intellectual property and since they are providing the challenge this year, if they don't grant us a license, we can't use them. I was hoping for some clarification on that score.

Thanks, and thanks again Team 116. You're winners in my book.

If you have the license, it should be okay. We might be asking for those in the future, so make sure you can provide the necessary material.

If Autodesk allows the use of the iikos, feel free to use them. However, this subject is probably better brought up with Mr. Helfen and the rest of Autodesk.

Thanks for your support, and we look forward to seeing your animation! I'm interested to see a comeback of our friends the iikos, provided you receive permission to use them.

[tvictor3dart]

No offense to Autodesk but I personally despise the iiko rig. We found that it had a knee controller in its ear along with a few other glitches. It could have been that we are using Maya instead of Max but one would assume that it would work the same for either application. Again I am NOT saying that Autodesk sucks (because they clearly do not!!!), I am just saying that I was disappointed with the Maya version of the iiko rig (hence why our iiko is floating on a platform).

Did anyone else run into issues with the iiko?

[116anim_award]

We've updated the rules again!

We've clarified a number of copyright issues that have come up in the past two weeks.

We added a requirement for a summary paragraph of the animation. This likely wouldn't be done until after the animation is completed anyway, and it's short, so we hope this doesn't inconvenience any teams.

We added a link to a number of resources provided by Clayton from Team 2367 and an Animation hotline hosted by Team 250 that runs on Saturdays from 1-4PM EST.

We would also like to mention that this award is open to FTC teams as well as FRC. FTC has never really been a part of the animation award, so we would like to change that. We hope that teams will be able to join in!