Looks like 2004 won't be my year.....

[Matt Hallock]

There's a chance that the theme will be changed next year and all your efforts will go to complete waste though. I feel your pain, I am the only animator on my team on what I was told to be a rookie team, although we are not since I learned we had a disqualified animation last year, this is my first year with robotics and such.

What I suggest to you is you do what you have now, and turn it in, it's probably better than you think. This is actually a problem I've encountered with myself on this animation. I kept thinking it wasn't good because I'd spent six weeks with this thing. After awhile I just wasn't phased by how it looked for some reason.

Your efforts over the summer would be better expanded if you got away from the animation and tried new things, even if they failed I guarantee you would learn a lot more than just sticking to this animation.

These animations can't realistically be blockbuster motion pictures in six weeks, considering teams of 30 people take eight months to make parts in movies that may only be five or ten minutes long. Being that you are on your own, next year I'd suggest aiming for lower goals. You'll be very competative with rookie teams, since the other rookie teams just got the program as well.