AVC 2006 and 3D Awards - Page 4

kimblarsen · February 15th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Jeff Mottle

Hi all,
I'm in the planning stages for the next AVC 2006 competition and wanted to get your feedback. I think things went realtively well last year considering the size of the competition and it being the first time I'd planned such a huge undertaking, but I want this year's event to be even better. I'm going to detail some rough ideas below and I'd like your feedback.
1. There will be 3 challenges (rather than 5 like last year), as the workload was pretty extreme for both the competitiors and the judges.
2. I'm thinking the challenges will be a 1. a rendering, 2. an animation and 3. something abtract/artistic with fewer contraints to make up the three challenges.

Great that you are doing this again Jeff! I have not been involved with this in any way but I do think that reducing the amount of work required for all parties, both participants and judges is a good thing.
Also, I am not sure how well defined each challenge was last year. I do think that everyone would benefit from a topic or some form of framework for each challenge since it is all to easy to spend a lot of time just coming up with an idea, any idea, on what to make. I also believe that some form of formal or idea constraints, other than time, will help the competitors focus and it will allow the judges to more readily compare two projects up against eachother.

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6. The timeframes are roughly as follows:
Qualification Submission period: 1 month
Qualificaton judging: 2 weeks
Challenge 1 (abstract relatively simple challenge): 2 weeks
Challenge 1 Judging: 2 weeks
Challenge 2 and 3: 1 month each
Challenge 2 and 3 Judging: 2 weeks each
This works out so there is roughly 30 days between the final judging and SIGGRAPH. This allows enough time for competitiors to arrange travel VISAs and for me to plan the CGA event without having a near nervous breakdown.

I am not on the judging end of this nor planning to enter the competition - I simply cannot find the time. However I would advice that leaving the judging of the final challenge to the 30 days before SIGGRAPH could be tricky if you have judges that are taking their summer holiday. It might only be in Scandinavia but here people usually take 3-4 weeks off for summer - mostly the whole of July. I know that in souther Europe most people go on vaction later, like August though. How is it in the US and Canada?

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9. There will be two entry categories: Individual (Like last year) and Group (Studios)/Team. Students can participate in either.

Does that mean that there are 20 entries for each challenge then? Are you planning to have separate judges for each category? The 10 x 3 x 2 = 60 submissions to judge seems to me to be quite a daunting task to submit to.
Cheers,
Kim

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