You animation will NOT be judged...

[dlavery]

Your animation will NOT be judged if you didn't read the rules and submit it in an acceptable format.

I have been perusing several of the animations that have already been sent to Streamline. Of the 51 animations I looked through, 24 of them - practically half of the entries - use illegal codecs, have improper image size, exceed the file size, or exceed the time limitations. Half of the entries are not in compliance with the submission requirements and are probably going to be disqualified by Autodesk. Based on past practice and what we have heard from Autodesk, they will be absolutely ruthless this year in ensuring compliance with the submission rules.

To have half of the entries submitted not even make it into the judged portion of the competition, just because the animation teams didn't bother to take the simple steps involved with reading the rules and submitting in a proper format, is tragic. Some otherwise fine animations are going to be completely ignored because someone on the team made a stupid little mistake like using a MPEG-4, animation, Sorensen 3, or H.264 codec instead of the required DV-NTSC codec. Or they sent in an animation with a 640x480 frame size, which is explicitly prohibited. Or they submitted an animation with a file size of 700+MB, when rules limit file size to 250MB.

If you don't want your five weeks of very hard work to be completely wasted, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure that you understand the submission requirements and send in a legal animation! There is still time to re-encode your animations and re-submit them to Streamline before the deadline.

-dave