Regional Animation Awards

[stevek]

Keep in mind, the animations are not judged at the events. It was done a long time before. You all have good points. I'd lean towards better integration of the animation competition. If all the hard work gets displayed on smaller levels then more people can appreciate it. Maybe a dedicated viewing area that people can wander in and out of or sit and watch for a while. Now they display the animations during down time at the nationals. Thats the same time we are running around trying to grab some food (long lines) and relax and then sit out in the SUN to get the audio from the animations (which they only play with audio once- as an animator and video graphics professional, I know there is a difference seeing the animation with the designed audio and SFX than seeing with no audio (in the pits) or with random bed of music (on einstein stage with the DJ overriding our audio with his musical selections). This year our Regionals played last years entries. Oh yeah keep in mind that the regionals start before the deadline for the animation. I know I dont want less time to work on it. Our team members work on other parts of our team as well. One Guy does all the video recording and editing for our team. Others help with the web and others actually work on the robot components- so they are busy, less time to complete it isnt and option in my mind. So Regional awards wont work but I vote to enhance the ability to view it, and not cast us aside like it doesnt matter. I worked these last two years on revising our teams view of the the web, animation, newsletter, etc. These are important tools of technology that students are learning. The view used to be, lets build a webpage to talk about our robot, now we tried to say lets learn how to use the web for the sake of the web and such, and oh yeah well advertise the robot and animation on there as well. You want people to see your chaimans award entry- put it on the web- our is. You still have it for next year as you do more on top of whats been done. Keep your chin up and lets get integrated into the main stream thought and hearts of the entire team. Use the tools to enhace the whole teams education of technology, not just to cator to a hunk of metal, plastic, and rubber-controlled by strings of binary code.