No more Autodesk Visualization Award?

[BuddyB309]

WHAT!!!!!!!!!! THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING!!!!!

If it weren't for the Autodesk Visualization award I would have never found my passion.

This is just....ugh!......ANGER!!!

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

WHAT!!!!!!!!!! THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING!!!!!

If it weren't for the Autodesk Visualization award I would have never found my passion.

This is just....ugh!......ANGER!!!

Easy Chicken Little, the sky may not be falling. :-). It looks like teams will still be able to use an array of Autodesk software, including 3DSMax. How these teams use it, and what they use it for, is certainly likely to change some here, but I'm sure we'll still be able to help students "find their passions" - we're a resourceful bunch, aren't we? Let's stay tuned and see where this goes.

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Easy Chicken Little, the sky may not be falling. :-). It looks like teams will still be able to use an array of Autodesk software, including 3DSMax. How these teams use it, and what they use it for, is certainly likely to change some here, but I'm sure we'll still be able to help students "find their passions" - we're a resourceful bunch, aren't we? Let's stay tuned and see where this goes.

Agreed. I think we all just need to wait and see what's going on.

Cass

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

If it weren't for the Autodesk Visualization award I would have never found my passion.

Ignoring the big red text because it just irritates me to have someone make a post using text THAT irritating despite the fact that we currently know next to nothing. If you credit Autodesk Visualization for helping you find your passion why do you need to have a major company tell you what you can and cannot do. If Autodesk removes the award no one says you have to stop doing animations. Heck, talk to your regional coordinator, it may not be an official award but I am sure that they would be willing to show animations when possible. Go back to team voting on the submissions. No one is stopping you from doing it it just makes a little more work (ok a lot) to give an award.



And also, chill out until we know something more. As a former animator myself I am mildly bothered by this but I have a feeling that it will all work out.

[Lil' Lavery]

I disagree with the whole "let's wait and see" mentality. Let's make it known, now, in a polite and professional fashion that the AVA was an important part of FIRST for many people. Maybe it's still around in some form, who knows? But if we let FIRST know it's value NOW, it will help encourage FIRST and Autodesk to continue to keep the award around in their plans and hopefully help it be a part of the upcoming Awards section of the manual.
If it still exists, they may roll their eyes at us and continue. If it doesn't, they'll take notice with time still left to change it.


I was a member of a team where the animation took a very prominant role. It was one of the largest, if not the largest, group of students working on an individual sub-team/project year after year. It was a source of team pride, a powerful promotional tool, and an additional avenue of learning about aspects not directly related to engineering/the robot (such as storyboards, film composition, computer networking, etc.) that wouldn't have been opened if not for the format of the competition. If it changes, even if 3ds max is still incorporated, it may lose a great deal of the other ANIMATION related qualities. Maybe those aren't important to some of you, but to many in FIRST, they are critical. There's a difference between learning to make a 3d model and learning to make a 30-second short film.