#Animation Contest
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I just wanted to remind everyone that there is a new contest for
animators. AmigaWorld has announced it's second Animation Video Contest. We
are lanning a second volume in the AW Animation Video Series with a release
around Christmas. There are some great prizes planned, and I would urge
people interested to check out one of teh ads in Amiga World. The first
issue with information on the contest is July.
Lou
Thanks for posting that Lou! You did a really nice job on the first
video, and I wish you success with this one! (I know I'll be buying it
Steve
Thanks Steve. But it was the animators who did the great job in the first
place…I just organized and directed the tape. I do hope however that I
learned some things from the first tape, and can apply that to the second.
Also, with the new guidelines on the tape, (i.e. the entrants should
endevor to tell a story instead of concentrating on technique, although
good technique is still vital) I hope to have the second Animation Video be
a real Amiga showcase.
Of course, with prizes like a Video Toaster and an A3000, I expect a lot
of serious entries!!!
Lou
Hello..I have a question/suggestion fr the animation contest.Is it possible
that in the future there will be separate catagories for the different
levels of Amiga systems?The average Amiga user cannot possibly compete with
the type of systems some of the pros are using.This would give the contest
a little more balance.Does this make sense?The first video had a lot of
great stuff on it,but it looked like a good portion of it was done on the
higher end systems.Is that accurate?Basically,with the prizes being what
they are this time around,a think their will be a lot more pros in the
running and I just hate to see the home user get buried for lack of the
right equipment.Thanks in advance for your response.
Well, I can see your point, but keep in mind that having a 'high end'
system or a 'low end' system will not really help or hurt you in this
contest. The criteria is story, not technique. So if you can put together
an interesting and/or amusing animation, your technique and
hardware/software becomes secondary. However, don't be misled, because a
good story won't be sufficient itself. You do need good animation
techniques.
If it makes you feel any better, the winner on the first Animation Video
(FeO) was created by an experienced animator, but basically he worked on a
A2000 using Turbo Silver. He didn't use anything anyone else couldn't have
had, and some of the others were created on more impressive platforms (i.e.
68030's, multi meg systems, etc).
Just do your best, use your creativity and see what happens. After all,
you already have the single most important part of hardware, the Amiga.
Lou
Lou,
Nevertheless, you guys did bend the rules in the first contest. The rules,
as stated in your mag, explicitly stated that all submissions must be on
floppy disk. It seems obvious from the tape that some of the entries were
submitted on videotape – not all of us can afford or get access to D2
digital editing suites!!! Fair is fair – if you make the rules, you should
adhere to them so as not to bias the outcome.
– Joe Pizzicaroli
Joe, essientially all the stuff on tape was requested by AmigaWorld in the
first place, not submitted for the first tape. Those were essientially
the 'professional' segments, and if memory serves me correctly, they were
Joe Conti and Alan Hastings. And neither of those were in the running for
the best of tape award because of that fact. A couple of others were
submitted on tape, along with disks.
As for this animation tape, anyone can submit on tape. We need 3/4 or 1
inch, as well as a standard vhs tape for those submitted in that manner.
And, you will still need to send disks (either floppy or syquest). In the
event the animation is far to big to send, at least enough of it to prove
it was created on the Amiga must be sent on tape. Winners will be carefully
scrutinized, and *might* be required to submit more material so we can be
sure it is amiga animations. That will be decided on at the time.
BTW, there are more prizes than just the A3000 and Toaster. See the next
issue for a full breakdown of prizes.
-Lou
I'd agree with Joe P… is the rules that the anim MUST be able to play in
REAL TIME on a machine? Must it fit into a machine whole? Or can it be
huge and reference the HD a lot? Is there a certain machine configuration
that it MUST run on? or ANY Amiga configuration? (ie. how about the new
2meg A3000's… you could stuff a lot more real-time sound/graphics in one
of those for effects… can you specify that the anim must be played by you
on an Amiga 3000, with 8megs of RAM and a SyQuest 40meg cartridge?)
Not looking for trouble… just wondering what the parameter are??? –jp–
The rules are very liberal. I see no reason why the anim must be only
runnable in realtime…as long as it is an Amiga anim. I suspect we will be
seeing some very vast anims, some in 24 bit, some from syquest, some
requiring massive ram and 2 megs of chipram..and that's ok. But those
technical factors will only count so far..creativity has equal weight with
the AW staff. It's fully concievable the winner could be someone whose anim
was created on an A500 with one meg…and it could also end up being a 5
gigabyte anim that requires a sony optical drive. No matter what, as long
as it's an Amiga anim, it can be entered. We just want to make an animation
video that represents to everyone, the Amiga users as well as the general
public, what an outstanding machine the Ami is…and I think we will.
-Lou
One last clarification… you said that there was no reason that it must be
runnable in realtime, right? What I meant by my question was… is an anim
submitted on videotape ok? Does it HAVE to be in disk format? (frankly, I
would think so, but???) (ie. ANY type of disk format… optical, syquest,
floppy, etc, etc, etc….)
What about sound? Can it be an anim with an accompanying midi/synth track?
or does the sound have to be Amiga based? If submitted on video tape, can
the sound be dubbed voices/music/etc???
Sorry if I seem tech about the parameters; I just want to be sure I know
what is legit and what is not…. would hate for Mike B to whip up a
whopper of a anim (great story line, too!), take it to a frame buffer and
tape, put sound to it, and have it not qualify!! –jp–
I can say from experience that Steve Menzies who won the first tape
contest, used a 1000 with 1.5 megs of ram….an advanced system?, I think
not…Louis]