Disappointing Animation Judging

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Posted by Kyle Huang, Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Gunn High School and Nasa Ames, Sun Microsystems, Xerox.

Posted on 4/28/99 7:14 PM MST


In Reply to: learning experience posted by Sean Kim on 4/28/99 4:59 PM MST:



Yes, Gunn's animation is 100% student built, so is our robot. We're proud of that.
One problem with regulating the participants, is that no one knows if a professional made
the animation or not. They could do that, and just not say so. But nobody in this
competition would ever do that, right? Do we really know that for sure? I personally think
they should regulate the whole competition including the robot that way, but that won't
happen any time soon. Teams like ours prove that it is indeed possible to have a totally
student-run team, and a 100% student designed AND built robot, AND still do very well in
ompetition. Our robot was undefeated during the qualifying matches at the nationals. We
made it to the finals, and we won the Honeywell Leadership in Controls award. We are all
very proud of how well we did.

One thing Sean, Autodesk has the winners decided way before the national competition. So,
they will never look at your robot's performance and take that into consideration.

This year, I see autodesk being very hypocritical, as I may have said in another post. I
simply think they should follow thier own guidelines. In the upcoming years, it will be
incredibly difficult to win the animation competition, if Autodesk won't follow thier own
judging criteria. Nobody can predict what they'll want out of an animation. So we can just
try our best and hope for the best.

______________________
: Our animstion is 100 % student built.

: Although I led the team of 7 people, 3 people are the ones who actually 'touched' the animaton file.
: I, also a human player, did about 40%. Eddy, also the MAIN electrical guy, did about 40%. Patrick did about 20%.
: I helped out with the Robot as well. Eddy is just the major major guy in programming and electrical stuff.

: This project by its trait is not possible with a lot of people working on it.

: And you mentioned 'learning experience.'
: Is it true that some schools have their animation DONE by the engineers?
: I mean...I know we don't do that. I know Gunn (Daniel and Kyle) doesn't do that, right?
: I find this very frustrating. They should have some kind of rule that includes regulations on the participation of experts.

: This project took over 500 hours os MY time. Who knows how much it is when combined with other people on the team. Probably over 1500 hours.

: I just hope that judges didn't think 'oh..Team 115 did a good animation. But their robot was only 190th,' and ditched us.

: upset kison

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: PS: Mike! I can't see your video. I tried it with Media Player 2. Should I get real player? This is weird because I can play other RM files.