LIGHTSABER CHOREOGRAPHY COMPETITION 4 (Updated 11/09 - Entry Deadline Over)

Hm. You're right. Up until Tooty's post, I thought the choreo was decided by a panel of judges and the final version was for us to vote on. Interresting.


By the way, I did a pretty terrible disservice to my rotoscoper, who got practically our whole footage rotoscoped at an amazing speed, less than a week, and I made the tough decision not to use it because of the framerate and no soundtrack, and a fight ensued. I then found out that I, with my ignorance of all things camera related, had given him manipulated footage that needed de-interlacing or something similar that I don't understand, and it screwed up the video quality. In other words, I gave this guy a nightmare schedule and impossible footage to work with, and when I didn't like the framerate I blamed him and didn't use the footage for my submission. So I used him and threw him away. He wasn't just working for that week, he was with me from the beginning, rotoscoping some of my practice footage, and perfecting the exact lightsaber look that I wanted. Needless to say, when I realized the framerate problems were my fault, I felt terrible! One of those moments where you realize "Gee, I'm a complete @#*%!..."

We have since worked things out, and I would like to post a link to his work on this forum on the day the votes are tallied (so that it does not influence the voting). I don't think that violates the rules, and it is the least I can do to reward the guy's hard work. Plus I think you will find some of the shots look absolutely beautiful with these effects, dispite the framerate problem that I created.


Please allow this, it is the only way I could think of to mend my mistake and set things right.



Edit: And I agree, I am waiting for the 15th like it is Christmas. The only difference with this feeling is it seems like I have spent the last 3 months frantically hammering away in Santa's workshop, trying to make the best toy EVER! I can't wait to unwrap all the gifts you guys bring!

Edit: added sentances. Sorry for the long post!

 

There will be a Panel of Judges and a public vote. Just like always.

But with the Judges actually... Doing it this time.

Heh.

Sage H.

 

Yo Sage,

I say you post the list of judges publically - so we can all harrass them when they don't do their job.

-Spiff

 

Clarification for those still confused:

Judges will look at the entries, mainly the choreography ones but also the fight scenes themselves, and give a fair, balanced review of them. They will tell what was good and what needed work. They get no special voting rights, and the only influence they have on voting is the influence on the voters.

Everyone will, in turn, vote on choreography, with their own opinions and perhaps keeping in mind what the judges have said. Everyone will, therefore, be the ones directly responsible for choosing who wins in each category.

 

We're gonna have two votes : best choreography, and best fight scene. Arjuna is correct in describing the judging phase.

Speaking of judges, so far we have DorkmanScott, Spiff, and Fig. They just got a pre-release link because they're gonna have some serious writing to do. And as you three know, keep the reviews for the release thread.

 

To the judges: Are the entrants close this round? or is there a clear winner already?

EDIT: Sorry, i'm just impatient.

 

WOW.



Those are some brutal judges.







Well, I guess the truth is often brutal. They will, no doubt, give us an accurate critique.

 

They're not allowed to say. Sorry. The 15th is almost upon us. Almost time.



Sage H.

 

Oh, hush, you. You who smells like cat.

 

Clearly there is a winner already: the judges! We got early linkage

-Spiff

 

Oh, hey, if that makes them winners and not losers, that means that the entries were good!

 

No offense to Dorkman, almighty mod that he is, but I do hope he actually reviews all the entries this year. Last year he didn't review my entry on the grounds that he viewed it as a joke, and when I said it wasn't, he still didn't. I entered that competition with the hopes of serious critique, and I came away with: Practice more. That's not all I learned, far from it, but that's all I got from the reviews.

~Duk

 

Well..who's fault is that, though? The entry really DID seem like a joke, and was pretty impervious to criticism, just on the grounds of how silly it was.

 

ouch.

 

Hmm, I thought these contests were supposed to be fun. At least he tried. I'm not saying I disagree with you, but it seems a little harsh.

 

Not saying it to be mean, saying that it's difficult to critique something that doesn't do anything critiqueable, outside of saying: "Yeah. Practice more."

 

What entry was it?

Tell them what they did wrong, even if it was, "Yeah, your choreography looked like it had merit, but you needed a lot more practice to make it come off well... faster, more intense."

 

Lucky... How do they all look?

 

Entry 19 last year.

 

Sorry, but for entry 19, I kind of agree with Dorkman. I would suggest getting more practice, although I still think Dorkman could've said more.

 

I'll tell my thoughts of it once I get back to my external hard drives. Too hard to pack both of them up to just come home for the weekend.

 

No, I couldn't have said more. Not without being accused of being "mean" or getting a lot of "OMG this is just for fun not to rip people apart!!1!"

And so I didn't.

M. Scott