Post Links to your Animation: 2008

[Hawahee]

Originally Posted by Ryo Chiba

Thanks!

We were sort of afraid that the luddite philosophy we decided to highlight would be unpopular with people in FIRST.

Also, explodingcan, I really like the accent on your animation's narrator. My question might sound really stupid, but is that how most hawaiians talk?

We chose him as our narrator because we thought he had the "professional" voice. And explodingcan is right, not all of us in Hawaii has that accent. We talk English too.

[Sconley]

Does anyone know when all of the videos will be available for viewing on FIRSTbase?

[azn_grrl_powa]

ugh...im on DOE computers and they block photobucket/youtube...ugh

[mrbliss]

Team 904: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ohscPwbzmU

Done almost entirely in 3dsMax. And Audacity. And Adobe Premiere Elements. And maybe a little Perl scripting.

Steve

[Morgan Gillespie]

Team 25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtmO3bIznNE
Done in 3dsm and WMM 2.6

[Dan Zollman]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

I don't have the link to the actual animation but here is the link to Team 1625's Most Extravagant Credits EVER!

That is now my all-time favorite...
has Ted seen this yet?

and who left the refrigerator open?!?!

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Dan Zollman

That is now my all-time favorite...
has Ted seen this yet?

and who left the refrigerator open?!?!

Ha ha thanks. No Ted Boardman has not seen this yet nor will he will see it before the competition. (Hopefully) I can only imagine the judges and his reaction when they see it for the first time in the judging room.

Originally Posted by mrbliss;

Team 904: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ohscPwbzmU

Done almost entirely in 3dsMax. And Audacity. And Adobe Premiere Elements. And maybe a little Perl scripting.

Steve

Its good, But I do not see your 5 second slate at the beginning. Is this a different version than what you sent to FIRSTbase? If there is no different version, not having a slate at the begining would be grounds for disqualification. I would hate to see all that work go to waste.

Originally Posted by Morgan;

Team 25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtmO3bIznNE
Done in 3dsm and WMM 2.6

Morgan my main materials man! Stuff you do with materials still dumbfounds me.

Originally Posted by Ryo Chiba;

Here is HBR's entry.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3d0PX8Vbk7g

Hey Ryo, I love the entirely different approach that your team took. Although I might suggest that next time you might want to dabble into building your own characters and rigging them. Always try to challenge yourself. I also encourage teams to build and rig their characters over the summer so they have a REALLY good character to use for the AVA. Instead of scrambling to try to make something during the season.

Magiciandude

Thats funny. I absolutely love your Dean Kamen character. Hmmmm... I got to create my own someday. Keep using him, But still challenge yourself by re-rigging him so your animation is smoother and your can crank out more facial expressions from him.

[temujin]

Originally Posted by Sconley

Does anyone know when all of the videos will be available for viewing on FIRSTbase?

I asked Autodesk, and they said sometime in the next week (they have to review them first). And that answer was Saturday - I didn't realize that other folks besides Firsters work weekends....

[MadeAtMidnight]

Originally Posted by temujin

I asked Autodesk, and they said sometime in the next week (they have to review them first). And that answer was Saturday - I didn't realize that other folks besides Firsters work weekends....

I have been amazed at how much Autodesk does for this competition. Any correspondence is quick and courteous. I think we are very lucky that they support this.

[Magiciandude]

Thats funny. I absolutely love your Dean Kamen character. Hmmmm... I got to create my own someday. Keep using him, But still challenge yourself by re-rigging him so your animation is smoother and your can crank out more facial expressions from him.

Haha...thanks! I would've re-rigged him if time permitted...but he only got in there because I ended up having to put Tyler's animation together in video editing software for him. Unfortunately we didn't have enough complete scenes for the audio track, so we ended up adding in some extra little quick things at the last minute .

Also...who's idea was it for a giant wall of refrigerators? ABSOLUTELY INGENIOUS!!!

And...I couldn't stop laughing for about ten minutes after seeing the thingamajingy...I'm pretty sure that completely made my day...awesome, well-executed idea...I want one...but no one picked up the phone when I called .

I'm seeing some really great animations here though! The competition gets tougher and tougher every year!

-Chris

[chaineezee]

Team 135's AVA entry:

http://files.filefront.com/Team+135m.../fileinfo.html

We'll put up a youtube video shortly for those of you who would rather stream than download the good quality version.

[chaineezee]

The youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zlmgbswo-Q

Enjoy.

[Kevin Thorp]

Originally Posted by adamrw91

Team 701's animation (our first year):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb_PsKQSr2E
wish you guys the best of luck!

Neat idea. Very realistic murky underwater scene. But I noticed your "opening slate" was 2 screens, and longer than 5 seconds. Aren't you worried Autodesk might disqualify it?

[JRosselet]

Well, to be quite honest, I am extremely disappointed in my animation. So much so, in fact, that I haven't looked at it since I submitted. So, I don't wish to show it to you guys at the moment, maybe later.

Ill post a link to what I had hoped to do (storyboard/concepts/design)... http://jrosselet.com/188/animation/storyboard.pdf

Too many things fell apart right at the end of the competition; I had MAJOR match moving problems, distributive rendering problems, problems of repetitive (and spontaneous) crashing when rendering, and exams cutting right in the middle. I worked really hard... yet crashed and burned.

I can't even explain how disappointed I am at the moment. Unfortunately for me, this was my first and last time competing in this challenge. :\

[Kevin Thorp]

Originally Posted by JRosselet

Well, to be quite honest, I am extremely disappointed in my animation. So much so, in fact, that I haven't looked at it since I submitted. So, I don't wish to show it to you guys at the moment, maybe later....

Please don't be too hard on yourself. We've all crashed & burned at one time or another. At least you've gained some invaluable experience.

The storyboard looks awesome. Why not finish the animation & let your team use it for fundraising and recruiting?