Posted by dave.
Student on team #56, Robbe’s Xtreme, from Bound Brook and Ethicon and Ethicon.
Posted on 6/2/99 4:20 PM MST
Ok, first of, if u can’t guess, i’m from the winning 1999 animation team, and thanx to one of my friends of on the warren hills team, i read all the post about this years animation, first off, i’d just like to say, that i did not expect to win this award, although i was happy when i did, but we also put a lot of hours into our animation, it was mainly student driven, we had to engineers that helped us, because we’d never used the program before, thats it, i was the main animator of the group, i worked every day in my first period class on the program to take what i learned there up to our corporate sponsor and use it there, i did not do everything though. Ok, now as for the reality portion of the animation, if u read the criteria for the animation it says that they would like it to be realistic, but they also would like ur animation to have a personality, now if u look yes we did show so realistic portions, like if u noticed our animation did exactly what our robot did this year. now u people complain that the sparx were no big deal, i didn’t think so either, i could have done them in my sleep, we don’t think our animation was technically hard to make, but it had a lot of detail on it, now if ur wondering y the one animation that used character studio didn’t win, its in my opinion that it didn’t win cause it didn’t show what its robot does in the competition, although it was a very sweet looking animation. Now all there was 3 student animators on this years animation team, and we but in 200+ hours also, we went there almost everyday after school and saturdays from 10 to 4, for the whole time, we put alot of work into that animation, and we were extremely happy to see it win, and when i hear people bad mouthing it saying it wasn’t real, then, i feel like i have to back my work up, now to the person that said we had a company in our credits, what r u smokin, i looked over those credits 3 times, and did not see one company in there, the animation was student built, the music was student written, the voice was of our engineer, so if u would like to talk to me personally about anything in that animation, send me an email at [email protected], i’ll be glad to get back to u, and if u don’t wanna do that then just reply to this post, and i’ll check it everyday in my first period class, in between working on 3d studio and talking to my g/f, so if i sounded mean to anyone about this post sorry, and to the teams that were the runners up, sweet animations, better luck next year, oh yeah, and to the the first person that posted something about this years animation, just because u lost doesn’t me u have to get all mad about, it, try harder next year.