Disappointment: Autodesk awards 2007

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

We never had anyone who knew enough about them who felt competant to judge. Now, if you go by that line of logic (with the understanding that less than half of the teams at any given regional will submit an animation), you have only a couple (I think that I've heard of regionals with less than 5 submissions) of animations being judged by a very few people.

I believe the regional awards were voted on by peer animators. (i.e., Only the teams which submitted animations were allowed to vote, and a team could not vote for themself.) Students who have gone through the process, and addressed the judging categories of the award are more than competent to vote on their peers.

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

Perhaps FIRST thought it better to let the few animations that do exist all be judged by professionals?

This contradicts some of the reasoning given when they began the Regional Awards. Back then the argument was there were TOO MANY animations for the professionals to go through. Having Regional Awards would filter out the lesser deserving ones to reduce the workload on the Championship judges. Now the workload has been increased beyond where it was when they began Regionals.

Inconsistency in the Visualization Award over the years has been a continuing frustration for the students who participate. There are many threads in the archives discussing these problems.