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Re: New LDraw contest?
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Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:47:14 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Miguel Agullo wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > Given the recent activity with animations, I've been toying with the idea of an
> > LDraw Animation of the XXX (where XXX is some specified time) contest. I think
> > monthly is too short but how about quarterly or trimesterly?
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> Quarterly sounds pretty realistic. Bi-monthly would be better, but maybe too
> optimistic. Depends on how many people out there think that they can contribute
> ... speak up, folks!
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> > Is there any interest in this?
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> Lots!! I'm working on the Ldraw Minifig Motion include file for POVray and have
> plenty of loops sitting around. Incidentally, I was planning on participating
> regularly on the scene contest, but got derailed by this animation experiment.
I'd be sorta intersted, although I don't really like competitions. I'm more
into the animation festivals where everyone makes animations, the best are
chosen, then they are all shipped on a DVD/VHS.
Bimonthly? I imagine there would be 1 or 2 entiries. If it is too often, then
you get unballanced results. One month they are all really good. The best gets
picked. The next contest, none are good. The best one gets picked, but it is
worse than all of the animations from the last month.
And how would you judge? Is it fair to compare 2 minutes of a rotating camera
around someone else's models using public domain music (like mine:
http://www.macos.utah.edu/documentation/xgrid/povray.html) with an animation
that is a 5 minute story with self produced music, voice overs, scenic sets
(houses, landscape), multiple objects that have animated parts (like cars,
doors, windows, elevators, etc), animated minifigs, and post production like
drawing faces on minifigs? (I just gave away my plans...) Such animations could
pull in money... is it fair to allow them into the competition?
Why not have this be a yearly contest, but have many winners. Animation
categories can be divided by how long they are. Prizes include links and such
on the ldraw.org site, but better, we produce a DVD with the winner's
animations. The number of winners depends on what will fit on the DVD. Or if
the video is stored as compressed files, we could probably fit *everyting*
submitted for the year...
Or the contest could end when there are enough entries to fill the DVD. If that
takes 2 months, then it would be a bimonthly competition.
Besides, the same people are probably going to be making the animations anyway.
The second compeition will probably have entries by people from the first one,
if you know what I mean.
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| (...) I say why not have both. I like Orion's idea of a web contest, its light, low overhead, and let the users decide the winner by voting. It will do well to showcase work and also to stimulate competition with little work output on Orion's (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, James Reynolds wrote: ... (...) ... A bunch of really cool ideas there. The DVD could also serve as an ad for Ldraw where appropriate. Projected onto an enormous wall in Legofests, for instance 8-) As for the yearly (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: New LDraw contest?
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| (...) Quarterly sounds pretty realistic. Bi-monthly would be better, but maybe too optimistic. Depends on how many people out there think that they can contribute ... speak up, folks! >Is there any interest in this? Lots!! I'm working on the Ldraw (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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