Chesapeake Regional Judging

[EugeneMarinelli]

Could anyone who judged at the Chesapeake animation regional...or anyone in general...please tell me what the problem was with my team's (357's) animation and why you gave it such low scores?!!!

[Gope]

Perhaps you could post a link to it?

[mikexstudios]

I am also dismayed at the low scores our team has gotten.

Your team had a final score of 38.5; the winning animation received a score of 78.1. You came in 19th out of 20. The lowest score you received from a team was a 16 and the highest score you received from one of the teams was a 75.

Here is out team's animation: http://robotics.tenchiintokyo.org/20...%20high%5d.avi
(Please right click and save target as. The file is 7.2MB large compressed in the DivX codec: http://www.divx.com)

I believe we had good creativity (a gotham city theme), content (fast paced scenes), communication (wipe screens and symbolization), and technical execution (raytracing, shadows, camera pans, moving letters, etc.). Aren't the student judges susposed to be judging by those critera? If so, I believe our animation deserves a much greater score.

I know that some of the responses this thread will receive will mention the "copyrighted" Batman 1966 theme music. Our animation team carefully researched this during our animation building period. We queried the U.S. Government's copyright database and found no mention of the 1966 Batman theme. There were copyrights established for the Batman movie theme but none for the 1966 Batman theme. However, I still cannot be too sure that it isn't copyrighted. If anybody can throw any light on this, please tell me.

If your team chastised us for using "copyrighted" music, I would like to know.

Thanks!

[Lev]

wow... this seems REALLY low. Our team gave your animation the highest score among the rest (which was greater than 75 - i dont know why is 75 listed there as the highest)
I am really sorry to hear this - your animation was really great, and i was sure you would get in at least top three.

On a side note - could someone remind me what the teams 651 animation was - their animation is not posted, and i dont really remember what it looked like.

[reisser]

Lev,

I thought your team was in the Northeastern Conference like us. I was at Chesapeake and was told I was not allowed to judge there. Are you in the Eastern Conference then or were you just allowed to judge anyway?

-Brandon

[Lev]

Ok - here is what happened:
When we got back from Richmond (at which time my understanding of the rules was that animation gets judged only at ONE regional - the one it was submitted to) we emailed autodesk explaining problems with artifacts on our animation and asking to re-submit our animation for Annapolis regional, since our team was going to attend it too. Autodesk agreed. What i did not realise until Thursday is that Annapolis was Eastern Conference, and not Southern, like I originally thought (our team went to both VCU and Chesapeake, which made me think they are in same Conference). We still wanted to participate since that was the only regional left in which our team was present and in which we could make sure that the real undistorted animation gets played, so to correct the mistake and be fair, we asked the autodesk representative to still allow us to participate in Annapolis, but to remove us from one of the regionals left in Southern Conference. As the result - we are being judged in 3 out of 4 Southern Conference regionals and 1 Eastern Conference regional. I am really sorry for the confusion created by my mistake.
By the way, since our animation placed 2nd in Annapolis, and we were already advanced to nationals from Richmond results, autodesk decided to advance 1st, 3rd and 4th animations from Annapolis, instead of top three.

[reisser]

I have another question. Eugene, how did you obtain your scores? Do you have to do that at the actual event or is it possible to contact autodesk?

[EugeneMarinelli]

I have another question. Eugene, how did you obtain your scores? Do you have to do that at the actual event or is it possible to contact autodesk?

The representative from Autodesk gave me her email address when I asked her for my team's score after the competition (she didn't have them available then). Sorry, but I'm not allowed to give it out.


Anyway, I guess she reported the wrong scores to me (hopefully? ).

[Soukup]

man, your animation totally didn't suck. 19 out of 20? Evidently some student judges aren't judging on a very good scale, or completely hated your team. That really does suck for you man, but good luck at the rest of the regionals. "I would have given yours somewhere in the 70-85 range.

[EugeneMarinelli]

It turns out that the Autodesk representative sent the wrong scores to me; my team's animation was actually ranked much higher.

Anyway, our animation won at the Philadelphia Regional.

[Lev]

Anyway, our animation won at the Philadelphia Regional

Congrats! And i'm glad you sorted out things with autodesk about Chesapeake - i was worried if i messed up something on my scoring sheet when i read that the highest score that your animation got was less than what we gave you.