hey, maybe you can download sleep at www.sleep.com 
i rendered dean.
How about we use the free time to attend competitions… maybe we’ll win stuff there.
Personally, I am very anxious to see the winning entry in Florida.
Good luck to all!
I know what we could all do… We could all turn that little steel knob that leads to the outside and go out. The natural light may seem a little unfamiliar and scary at first but I am sure we’ll get over it. Just one thing, whoever does go out first tell me what is there so I won’t be so afraid…
go outside??? but that means i have to deal with real humans!!! i havent done that in years!!! I prefier the fake peopel on my animation. (there much more friendly) lol j/k
i have so much free time on my hands that i have started to post more messages.
Uhh…outside…Doesn’t it have wild non-rendered animals?
No thanks. I’ll just stay in my little animation hidey-hole, occassionaly emerging when my caffeine supply dwindles.
i have already started on next years 
. I know, i have no life but human modeling also takes awhile (and we don’t need to know the game to work on it) maybe we should have a mini animation comp too for just the first teams? would anyone be interested in that?
Hows about creating all the robots that you competed against,or geting what they used for their animation, and rendering all your matches?
That should give you something to ocupy your summer.
::head explodes at Wetzel’s suggestion::
RE: “I know what we could all do… We could all turn that little steel knob that leads to the outside and go out. The natural light may seem a little unfamiliar and scary at first but I am sure we’ll get over it. Just one thing, whoever does go out first tell me what is there so I won’t be so afraid…”
NO!!! NO NATURAL LIGHT!!! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING??? EVIL!!! (where’s my caffeine?)
-GH
Highland Class of 2K
If Mountan Dew was a cigarette, then Amp (energy drink from the makers of Mountain Dew) would be crack-cocaine…
::steps outside::
OH GAWD IT BURNS!!! IT BURNS!!!
yhea i tried the whole outside idea, yhea it wasn’t a lasting idea or else i wouldn’t be writting in here, you know your in bad shape when you forget what a cloud looks like, and yhea it’s bright out there, don’t try it unless you got sunglasses and long sleeved clothes…
I think I’ll just bask in the warm radiating light from my monitor. If I spend enough time, I might be able to work up a nice tan.
sleep is overrated
yeah a tan would be nice before going to florida!!! Hey now I have an accuse to tell my mom why I am on the comp all the time. (other than this is goign to be my career which she cant seem to accept)
excuse*
Actually, when you think about it, getting a tan from a computer monitor isn’t probably the best thing for your health because the tan would be caused by the radiation (in the form of alpha and beta rays) damaging our skin cells.
Oh well, can’t be anyworse than the ultra-violet radiation from the sun right?
Tweak your current animation to perfection. Seriously. Take a look and make a note of all the things that could be done better with more time. Then work on them. That’s the beauty and real way to work with animation, and indeed all art. Start rough then work towards a nice shine. Oh, it’s also the instructions off of this can of turtle wax.
What you could also do is create an extended animation with establishing shots. I’ve noticed a lot in previous animations that people try to cram in like 30 flying shots. Each one lasting a second. Mmm… MTV edit. Tastes like, uh. Yea. The MTV way of editing can work, but there needs to be some kind of continuity. Usually the music is constant or there is a constant return to a certain shot: IE Something getting closer. But this time, while tweaking your animations, you have no time limits. So go nuts.
-Robby O
FIRSTanimators Moderator
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