Team 342 Safety Animation 2009

Created for the 2009 Safety animation Competition by the FIRST Robotics competition. Please visit Team 342's homepage http://academics.tridenttech.edu/team342/
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Winner of the 2009 Safety Animation Competition for FIRST

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Team
• 342
• Safety
• Animation
• 2009
• 3d
• 3dmax
• first
• robotics
• competition

[thewizzard99]

um you DO know you could only use 3ds max and combustion, the rules specifically said you could only use free ware and what autodesk gave you. no cs4 or whatever. you could use gimp or inkscape, no photoshop.

i think the reason is because everyone doesnt have photoshop because its so expensive. i KNOW you can get it other ways tho

[3DElizabeth]

Hello thewizzard99, let me clarify the issue for you. The team used the 30 day free trial of all adobe products, which are free for all teams to access should they chose to. I am the mentor for team 342's Animation Team and it is very important to us to follow all rules and criteria and compete in a fair manor.

For the Actual rules please see the following:

[3DElizabeth]

Q: Can we use third party product products to help create our animation?

A: The goal of the Autodesk Design Competition is to use the Autodesk products provided to create the animation. Third party products, plug-ins, enhancements can only be used if they are free of charge and open for any team to use. This allows an even playing field for all teams to participate in the design competition.

[3DElizabeth]

That is incorrect. Please look in the information box where it clearly states this was made for the Safety animation not the visualization competition. Thank you.

[thewizzard99]

you were supposed to use combustion. you werent allowed to use photoshop or premier. this is the autodesk visualization award right?

[deaderzombee]

good job winning this year guys !

[3DElizabeth]

Thank you very very Much! The whole team is very excited.

[bluedrago505]

yea and 3D animaton is easier and safer to make than real life video.. and 2d animations like *excuse my language* sick figures on crack <--- is SOOOOOOO funny and it was made with pivot

[bluedrago505]

lol i know i used to work on pivot which is actually harder than MAX because its actually frame by frame... it took me 2 hours to made a 3000 video which turned out to be 30 secs..

[3DElizabeth]

ok, well think of it like this. 3D animation gives us a chance to make things different from real life to be able to show emphasis on things we wouldn't normally be be able to film.

Not only that but there are lots of different styles of art and animation. Be careful not to judge solely on what your trying to strive for.

Youtube the 2D animation "Rejected - Don Hertzfeldt" An animation that uses simple elements but is brilliant. Stick figures have never been so fun :)