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Unread 14-03-2005, 09:21
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Re: Anyone else want a change?

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Thanks for your Promise to deliver. I look forward to the follow through.

BTW: The Term SLAP IT DOWN I'm sure was just a descriptive story telling visual writing technique and not a reference to a violent rush on the FIRST headquarters.


All I want is some recognition from FIRST that Science and Technology is actually involved in what we do. It pretty hard to do an animation with out Computers (at least for this competition) Last I checked that involved Technology and Science (Physics, Biology, Computer Science, Programming, etc.)

So I'd love to see someone follow through on geetign our Ideas Implemented.
Part of the problem is that FIRST considers this an AUTODESK Competition and not truely part of FIRST. And that is stated by FIRST and AUTODESK.

Lots of luck- I'm trying to do the same on my end. You all have great Ideas just keep pushing.
I hear you. And I promise to pass on your comments. You have some solid examples of ways how this should not be done. Do me a favor, and take your post, edit it a bit, SLAP IT DOWN, and email it to me. jbeatty@usfirst.org
I will make sure that your experiences (and even better would be to also include a list of ways to make this better for all) and I will make sure that the right person at FIRST and at autodesk gets it. This will not happen until after the Championship, because everyone is up to their eyeballs right now. But during the team forum period, probably in May-June, it will get passed on. I promise.
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Re: Anyone else want a change?

Well, getting back on topic,
Let's all try and put together a compilation of what everyone wants before we e-mail it out. Here’s a basic list of what should be changed /added:

- Different Animation Topic each year.
Reduces veteran advantage, inspires creativity.

- Winning displayed in the awards ceremony.
Give the team its credit.

- Animations played in downtime. (Between Matches, at lunch, etc...)
Let everyone see ALL the animations, not just a select rep from each
team in some small back room.

- Extended time limit. (1-2 minutes?)
The teams have already made a lot of content, let them show it off.


If anyone has something to add/remove to/from the list, don’t hesitate to post it up.
(…and yes, "slap it down" was just a figure of speech.)
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Re: Anyone else want a change?

More related to the competition days, but...

- Nice and loud announcements in the Pit & Stands about when the animation judging is. Include the judging times in the Regional booklet, at least!

- Perhaps an animators social? Nice, long lunch discussion various aspects of each other's animation.
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Re: Anyone else want a change?

At the pittsburgh regional, my friend and I set up out laptop right by the autodesk stand, where everyone checks out the animation dvd's, and we held discussions and tips/lessons, for those interested. we asked the announcer to make the announcment, i think that could work for you as well.
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Re: Anyone else want a change?

I think it would be cool to make a contest where everyone designs a piece that contributes to a continuous animation. An animated Rube Goldberg machine comes to mind, or maybe Autodesk could provide a robot model that has to enter your animation at a point and leave at another (where it goes on to the next animation). That way, they could play a continuous loop of them whenever there is a lull at the comps (like there is between matches this year).
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