How do you feel about how the Autodesk award winners were decided?

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Originally Posted by "Big Mike"

My opinion is that Autodesk/FIRST should see if they can aquire volunteers from companies like Pixar or Dreamworks to judge the award on the championship level, i also think that they should use a pre-decided set of metrics released to teams at kickoff and that the award should be judged on technical stuff not which one has the prettiest colors...

We are sponsored by DreamWorks and several of their animators mentor our team.

I'd be pretty happy if they were recruited to judge the AVA awards


Having a rubric would really help. But as with all movies, the real deciding factor will always lie with the storyboard and theme. If you go back and review the winning AVA's you'll see that they all flowed beautifully, and had great themes.

You can have technical excellence and a bad animation.