BAC#7 Voting Thread [Closed]

[revolt_randy]

First off, I’d like to say thanks for everyone who voted for my BAC #7 entry!!:yes: Now, what did I win?? What, a copy of Blender 2.5 alpha 2?? It’s what I’ve always wanted!! I’m getting all misty eyed here…:o

I’ve been following the posts to this thread about a new character/rig for the challenge. Quite frankly, I don’t understand it, Pantin is a great character/rig and Pedro was nice too, a change of pace this time around. Instead of a biped, it was a quadruped which I thought was a bit more of a challenge. Both characters are easy enough to animate. I mean, I’m scratching my head wondering is a better/different looking character going to enable people to animate any better?? :no:

Let’s look at a couple of facts here… Here are the poll results for this round - 11 people voted for Pedro, 8 people voted for Pantin for this round. My opinion was

@revolt_randy

I didn’t vote on this topic. I started to play with 2.52 today a bit, and yeah…it’s a bit to learn, but it’s the way of the future. Adapt, or get left behind. I’m in no matter which way you go 2.49b or 2.52… I have no opinion…

So 11 people voted for Pedro and I didn’t vote, out of 12 people there were 5 entries, plus 1 late one. Only half the people who voted actually entered…

bl33d posted looking for help for a short he is working on here and has gotten no response. Pipeline had an interesting idea for a series of challenges, here is his website for it. There were a lot of responses to this idea, but no one has really posted anything to his contest threads yet… BTW: I’m rendering one of my works right now.

And I’m not even going to mention all the open-movie projects I’ve seen posts for. To me, all these ideas have one thing in common, lots of opinions and no actions. Where are the other people who voted to use Pedro? Where are the people interested in Pipeline’s idea? And well, as for open movies… only the Blender Foundation has did it.

Fligh, I think you have an excellent idea about starting a WIP thread for a new character. I really hate to say it though, but I think I already know the outcome of this effort. After all, no one has come forward in this thread with anything other than an opinion.

@sowlibra2002

Maybe For the future as you say it, we can design character for us by us. But I’ll would mention that there’s already mesh available on internet that we could use as a basis to rig. Let’s say the well known Mom that’s free for use.

Got any links for us???

If Animaticoide doesn’t get anything started soon, I will. I already have an idea for another character, but is anybody else going to contribute anything other than their opinion???

Randy