CompuServe Thread

>> For those of us who submitted animations for the demo reel, and were not selected for inclusion, would it be possible to receive greater detail on what about the amination keep it from being selected? I ask only because it would be helpful for future work. I would greatly appreciate the critique. << sounds like a great idea! who did you submit the work too, maybe we can get that person (or persons) to respond. this kind of feedback can be as valuable as any seminar! -dave

I'll give you a quick rundown of what will get you disqualified: First, competition gets very tough if a tremendous amount of material was submitted in your category (e.g., we had a ton of entries for architectural animation, and we only accepted 1.75 minutes of that stuff). In this case, only the cream of the crop was selected and we rejected almost an HOUR of 'ordinary' work. That said, here's the basic criteria: – uniqueness – coolness factor. must elecit a 'cool' from the judges – lack of rendering anomalies: – flickering faces or shadows – edge ropiness – texture or bump scintillation – map seams – flat lighting (too much ambient) (note that everyone ought to turn their ambient down to zero and KEEP IT THERE) – heavy-handedness… subtlety is very important – lack of scene density – flat materials… Ka(ambient) too high – motion anomalies (in either objects or camera) Do you have the '95 Siggraph video? If so, it ought to give you a good idea of exactly what we look for. – G