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Autodesk's response
As you guys are well aware there have been changes to the AVA award. A few weeks ago a letter was penned and sent to the powers that be at FIRST and Autodesk. We finally got a response:
Dear Jane, Thank you for your letter. We appreciate it and want to let you know that we reviewed it with careful consideration. At this point, we cannot continue to judge the Autodesk Visualization Award submissions at each and every FIRST regional, believe me, we would love to be able to do that, because we know how important it is to all of the teams. But it's really a matter of our resources, and we just can't be everywhere at once. But let's just be clear about one thing - we have no intent to take the award away, we will just celebrate it in a different way. As you mentioned, encouraging and motivating the students to get involved in animation is paramount. So while we won't judge the animations at every regional, we will continue to drive regional and national exposure for the great animation work students are doing: * We will keep regional celebration of the submissions by providing DVD's to be played at every regional, with the submissions from teams in that area. Everyone at the regional will see the great work being done. * We will keep peer judging so the students are actively involved in determining the winner of the national AVA. This will be done over the course of two weeks online and culminating at Championship * We will add a web-based celebration of animations with a "featured short" of animations that rotate on the FIRSTbase site every week (www.autodesk.com/firstbase). What great exposure to people beyond those that attend their regional. * We will add a feature at Championship, where Ted Boardman (our animation expert) will recognize different animations for best use of animation features (e.g. effects, shadows, lighting, etc). And again, these winners will be featured on the FIRSTbase site. * Lastly, we will add additional animation training to FIRSTbase to encourage the students to use the software In this way, we're keeping the recognition of the regional submissions and the peer voting, while allowing us to spend our efforts on the training that will get more students using the animation software in the first place. Thank you again for your support and enthusiasm, and please let me know if there are any other questions I can answer for you. Sincerely, Marcy Shanti Sponsorship Manager Autodesk, Inc. Not quite was I was hoping to hear but I will give Autodesk the benefit of the doubt. They have been a loyal FIRST supporter for years and are doing the best they can. I say wait and see. I woud like to thank everyone who signed their name to the petition. At the very least it was good to see the outpouring of support from the FIRST community for the animators. Thsnk you. Last edited by Koko Ed : 14-01-2007 at 17:15. |
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Re: Autodesk's response
sigh, I hope next year they will have more support.
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I was hoping for a little more, but its still nice to know that they *supposedly* actually care about us
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Well, we can't get everything and anything we ask for, so I'm going to stick with being grateful for what we have at the moment. It could be worse. The tone of this email is promising.
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When is the Animation Submission Deadline?
After a decade of watching great animations pass before our eyes, we, the Robonauts, have decided to get into the animation game. Of course, we were disappointed in Autodesk's confirmation letter of their "no regional award" position BUT we were hoping for the proverbial silver lining of a submission extension. We thought that since there would be no regional awards and because FIRST has not posted a submission deadline at their Calendar of Important Dates (please correct me if the submission deadline is posted somewhere), we might get a little extra time to work on our animation. Unfortunately if Autodesk is going to "keep regional celebration of the submissions by providing DVD's to be played at every regional, with the submissions from teams in that area," we are out of luck with our much needed extension. Since we have a policy that all students will build the robot along with participating in a subgroup (PR, Chairman's, Animation, Web Page, etc.), we were really hoping to be able to work on the animation after ship. With this letter, we're assuming that the animation submission deadline will be around February 22nd ... do you think that this assumption is right?
Thanks for all of your work, Jane, Ed, & everyone else who championed the regional animation cause, Lucien |
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Re: When is the Animation Submission Deadline?
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I think that though they weren't too clear in explaining why they've stopped after all this time, its clear they are continuing to support the FIRST community and help the coming generations of FIRSTers, so I guess it could be a lot worse...
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