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Re: Time limit for animation????

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This is a little confusing: In the past the rules always said something like "not more than 30 seconds". But this year in three separate places the rules just say "30-second animation".

I don't know if shorter animations are acceptable, but just to be safe our's will be exactly 30 seconds (plus the opening slate, black frames, etc.).

Yeah but your slate will not be counted and your animation will only be 15 seconds.

If you watch last years winning team, "Simple Concepts" their animation was 29.9 seconds. NOt including the slate and the credits
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Re: Time limit for animation????

30 seconds for an animation is so common, the rule makers decided to say "30 second animation" when they really mean 15-30 second animation. Oh what laugh, hahaha.
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Re: Time limit for animation????

Pete, remember that awesome 56 sec. animation from last year? They weren't DQ'd.
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Pete, remember that awesome 56 sec. animation from last year? They weren't DQ'd.
Which team? Are you sure they weren't DQ'd? As far as I know Autodesk posted all the animations on FIRSTbase - even the DQ'd ones. Was the extra length part of the credits (okay but not judged)?

I STRONGLY recommend adhering to all the rules - including animation length.
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Re: Time limit for animation????

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Which team? Are you sure they weren't DQ'd? As far as I know Autodesk posted all the animations on FIRSTbase - even the DQ'd ones. Was the extra length part of the credits (okay but not judged)?

I STRONGLY recommend adhering to all the rules - including animation length.
Team 2171. Yes. No.

All of the animators at Boilermaker, myself included, judged them for the regional award. It's OK. They didn't win.

Autodesk has never been strict about the rules in the past. There have been plenty of 7 sec. animations, 640x480 animations, etc.
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Re: Time limit for animation????

Heh, I love autodesk for their leniency (Sp? .. It's "early" for a college kid, and I'm in class xD) but that seems a little outrageous that it was 56 seconds. Although.. it'd be so much easier if we could just make the animations longer... (well easier to conceptualize, harder to animate.. sorta)
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Heh, I love autodesk for their leniency (Sp? .. It's "early" for a college kid, and I'm in class xD) but that seems a little outrageous that it was 56 seconds. Although.. it'd be so much easier if we could just make the animations longer... (well easier to conceptualize, harder to animate.. sorta)
Its far better to make something short and sweet then something long and mediocre.
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Re: Time limit for animation????

Maybe Autodesk didn't bother screening the animations for the regional competitions, but I'll bet they did for the National award. All of the five finalists were the correct length, format, etc.

Why take a chance? Why not follow the contest rules?
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Re: Time limit for animation????

Kevin has a point. When you think about it, the judges at autodesk have about 200 animations to go through. What do you think is the first screen that they eliminate the animations through? Ones that don't follow the rules.
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Re: Time limit for animation????

I've seen winners that were over 30 seconds.
Its so short anyways that reviewing 200+ as mentioned before cant be THAT bad.
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