Random thoughts that occur while watchin anims

[stevek]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Hey! Now you are stepping on my turf!!

Seriously, I really like the idea of a "meta-team animation project." It could be very, very cool. If any of you are seriously interested in doing something like this, speak up now. I will be more than happy to bring this up with folks at FIRST and see if they might have an appropriate project. Some possibilities that I can think of might include:

- instruction animations for advaned kit-of-parts assemblies (e.g. showing how to assemble the transmissions from this year's KOP)
- companion animations for the "Guidelines" documents, to illustrate basic robot construction concepts
- "message" animations that help illustrate the philosophy and impact of FIRST (including growth, history, distribution of teams, etc.); animated graphics with a lot of information content
- a "Super AVA" entry - take the basic Autodesk challenge, but see what you could do with it if you had six months instead of six weeks, and lots of animators collaborating instead of just a few folks on one team (e.g. establish the ultimate animation example to which others can aspire)
- etc etc etc

-dave

This sounds great- And to make sure we all have efficient computing Equipment, we can talk to our pals at JPL - LOL

Sound like a great Idea guys- But to pullit off- you'll need a staging server to pull and post files to. As Roush hinted- massive coordination.

The point would be (based on the first Post) to get the Specialists working on the Specific project areas. Very compartmentalized. Our team has had the luxury of doing that the last 2-3 years. We have Lighting- Modeling- Texturing- Animation- Camera-EFX People. There is overlap and some do multiple areas. But we have the Top person Work with the others- so they learn from eachother. It'll be a good way to teach others (If you document along the way.-- Since most people aren't in the same room)