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Message from drychalice

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:12:36 GMT

Congratulations to Dylly, Ziggy and Hexslayer! All great animations.

Message from Dreeko

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:23:17 GMT

Congrats to all prize winners, well deserved I'd say!
Looking forward to the Muvizu movies that will be created in 2012!

Wonder what the next comp will be?...
Any suggestions folks?
How about a create a trailer comp?

Cheers
D

Message from bigwally

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:42:01 GMT

Congratulations to Dylly and the others who won.

Next time, I'd love to see a real challenge. How about sticking to the 10 second idea? Even I thought it wasn't enough time at first, now I'm more and more intrigued about it. A 10 second video (not counting the titles) as competition fodder.

Message from hexslayer

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:34:18 GMT

Wow I won something !!! That made my day !many thanks for all the congrats and a BIG WELL DONE to Dylly and Ziggy both well deserved winners.
expect to see new movies from me coming soon
Happy new year to everyone

Message from 65Radius

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:09 GMT

I would like to add my congratulations to the three deserving winners! There might well be a video about this sometime next year...

Message from pyrrho

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:38:48 GMT

Cneda wrote:

I'm astonished that there aren't awards for "Mona Lisa Smile", "No escape", "Marriage" or "Mosquito". For example the works of 11apr1973 are wonderful ...
I want only to understand what were the criterion followed...

Tastes are personal matters, but in a contest standards count... In this competion what they were?
edited by Cneda on 30/12/2011

Thank you for your interest and I look forward to seeing your Muvizu creations. To deal with the videos that you favoured but which did not win a prize, we had only three prizes to give out, the main one kindly donated by AMD and the other two bought by Muvizu rather than being donated. So we had only three prizes and that meant choosing only three winners.

The criteria were to make the best use of Muvizu and to entertain. The second criterion, to entertain, is as you point out subjective. You'd be surprised, though, how the first is also subjective depending on who is giving their judgment.

We break down into roughly three teams: artists, developers and testers. A developer may admire use of technical features present in Muvizu and used well. A tester may appreciate the skill and dexterity needed to use these features - or even to find a novel way to squeeze the most out of them. An artist may admire animation qualities, camera cuts, character design.

Within each team, opinions also differ, depending on the individual's specialism.

So, we thought it fair to ask every member to submit their top five choices and award points on a quasi proportional representation system. The winner was the one that received the most points, second place went to the next - you get the idea.

Naturally, your preferences differ from the final results - as did preferences within the Muvizu team members; some individuals were disappointed that their first choice did not win. But the results are what the numbers said, and those reflected in pure points scored the aggregated thoughts across the team as a whole.

We listen to our users and, as you will have seen in these forums, spend a lot of time engaging with them, often on quite a personal level. (We even had a couple of users who said they wouldn't enter because they didn't need the prizes; another who entered said that, because he'd won a previous competition, if he won this then his prize should be given to someone else.)

Perhaps the best lesson to take from this is that competitions generate interest, recruit new users - such as you - and create a nice buzz within the Muvizu world. We should run more of them.

I hope that this helps.

vince

Message from Cneda

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:50:37 GMT

First of all congratulations to the winners! Funny videos

I followed this competion with a special attention because I love animations and I knew Muvizu thanks this contest! (I'm still working to my first animation)

Now I'm astonished that there aren't awards for "Mona Lisa Smile", "No escape", "Marriage" or "Mosquito". For example the works of 11apr1973 are wonderful as much as the winners' videos... He worked a lot making five entrances for the competions... and two of these are well-done, with brilliant ideas and superb realization!

What's about Mona Lisa Smile? Ziggy said enough! (It is a masterpiece)

I don't want to enter into a debat with the community and Muvizu Staff: I want only to understand what were the criterion followed...

Tastes are personal matters, but in a contest standards count... In this competion what they were?
edited by Cneda on 30/12/2011

Message from mysto

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:52:21 GMT

Congratulations guys! Great videos!

Message from Dylly

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:01:36 GMT

Congratulations to Ziggy and Hexslayer...Hex's clip was one of my favourites, and Ziggy's was sublime, great idea and superb set, and my other half thought Ziggy's was brilliant...and so true to life!

Thanks to the Muvizu team and the Muvizu community for the software, support, encouragement and opportunity. I'm chuffed to bits and looking forward to the new release!

Tim

Message from jonbez

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:22:10 GMT

Congratulations to the winners. Great short films guys.

Message from ziggy72

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:15:20 GMT

Wow, I've actually won something! First time ever - thankyou. Congrats to Dylly and Hex, and I have to agree with Toon on the Mona Lisa one - thinking about it, I suppose it showed off what you could do with external 3D stuff more than what you could do with just Muvizu though, and I guess that was more what you (Vince and the Muvizu Crew) were after. That's my theory anyroadup. Thanks again!

Message from toonarama

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:10:02 GMT

Congratulations to Dylly (nice early birthday present!) Ziggy and Hexslayer! All great animations.

Surprised that there was no award for Mona Liza's smile though....

Message from pyrrho

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:42:50 GMT

Hello, chaps. I suspect that you'll be wondering a few things, first among which is what happened to our release (it broke just before the Christmas period and, although now fixed, we didn't want to release it when the office was unmanned and in the event of a further glitch we wouldn't have been able to patch until later). Robert is confident that, all things being equal - which is a rare state of affairs - we should get it to you by January 9.

Second, you'll probably also want to know who won our AMD competition. This news could and should have been released in the news section before Christmas. I'm not going to describe in this post the blend of woe (technical) and ineptitude (mine) that felled that plan. In fact, I'll probably only drip-feed the details to anyone I can corner in cheap Glasgow pubs in return for a free sherbet. Good business is where you find it :-)

However, in first place we have Dylly's Muvizu Monster: http://www.muvizu.com/Video/17873/Muvizu-Monster-AMD-Fusion

In second, we have Ziggy's Mysteries of Science 1: http://www.muvizu.com/Video/17859/Mysteries-Of-Science-1-AMD-Fusion

And third, it's Silent Movies, by Hexslayer: http://www.muvizu.com/Video/17953/silent-movies-AMD-Fusion

Our thanks to all entrants, though, and hackneyed as this sentiment seems, it was a tough battle and it pains me not to have been able to reward all you folk who worked so hard and produced some excellent work.

We'll be back to full operational status as of January 4 and look forward to seeing you then.

Very best wishes,
vince

Message from bigwally

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:42:27 GMT

Dylly wrote:

Dreeko wrote:

If You Wait Then It Will Come....

I mean how restrained am I...?
Not one mention of a vicar
or an actress...
not even a touch of 'titter ye not' or 'ooh err missus'!
It must be Christmas!

Sheer poetry!

Message from ukBerty

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:36:41 GMT

Looks like Santa's going to miss us out this year. Oh well, maybe the Easter bunny will be kinder.

On a more sincere note, can I just say how much I've enjoyed working with Muvizu and its users this year, it has and will continue to allow me to realise some of my ambitions in a very fulfilling way.

And also can I commend the forum for being the most supportive and civilised forum I've ever been on.

Too gushing ? Oh well, it's Christmas.

Berty

Message from Dylly

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:26:05 GMT

Dreeko wrote:

If you wait then it will come....

I mean how restrained am I...? Not one mention of a vicar or an actress...not even a touch of 'titter ye not' or 'ooh err missus'! It must be Christmas!

Message from dwino

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:02:19 GMT

Lol...I suppose that's awfully close. I still want one of pyrrho's droogs to mutter something soothing though.

Message from Dreeko

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:43:16 GMT

If you wait then it will come....

Message from Dylly

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:05:32 GMT

Are we there yet Dreeko? Are we? Are we? Are we there yet?

Message from Dreeko

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:01:42 GMT

dwino wrote:

Would be nice if they said something regarding a missed target date. I get it, it happens...but it would be nice to hear a calm voice reminding us to be patient.

There there, be patient little children and all will be well...

...How was that?

Message from dwino

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:17:01 GMT

Would be nice if they said something regarding a missed target date. I get it, it happens...but it would be nice to hear a calm voice reminding us to be patient.

Message from bigwally

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:18:10 GMT

toonarama wrote:

Brilliant.......but still hasn't provoked a response. We're dealing with tough cookies here. I think Vince has them all chained to their desks and their mouths taped up

Their silence is deafening!

Message from toonarama

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:33:17 GMT

Dylly wrote:

I'm imagining a scene...perhaps a works Christmas party...the pub shuts...missing the last bus home...hell we'll carry on the party in the office and while we are here I've thought...hic of a few little...hic improvements to the ...latest...hic.... cut to light glinting from a cd stuck to the face of a dev unconscious at his/her desk...as the camera pans up to a flickering monitor, the word DELETE flashes in green as a tequila bottle finishes its final lazy rotation on the desk top and comes to a halt.The camera follows the path of a solitary drip that escapes from the neck of the bottle in slow motion until it splashes onto the return key as the door of the office opens...the screen fades to the sound of a discord played on the piano forte.

Brilliant.......but still hasn't provoked a response. We're dealing with tough cookies here. I think Vince has them all chained to their desks and their mouths taped up

Message from 65Radius

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:29:01 GMT

Dylly wrote:

I'm imagining a scene...perhaps a works Christmas party...the pub shuts...

Powerful imagery, that. Let's hope it remains a fictional figment...

Message from Dylly

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:56:39 GMT

Message from mysto

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:47:15 GMT

Maybe Santa's elves are on strike?

Message from ukBerty

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:29:14 GMT

I'm starting to doubt the existence of Santa.......

Message from ziggy72

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:57:41 GMT

Soooo... no update then? I mean, it's not like I've marked today in my calendar and have been counting down the days or anything... Anytime's fine, really...

Message from Luscan

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:08:52 GMT

toonarama wrote:

Luscan wrote:

Yes.

I asked for that!

I love you really, toonarama

Message from toonarama

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:01:27 GMT

Luscan wrote:

Yes.

I asked for that!

Message from Luscan

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:58:42 GMT

Yes.

Message from toonarama

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:54:42 GMT

So there is life on Muvizu! I was getting worried.

Any news on, er, anything at all?

Message from Luscan

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:51:58 GMT

The North American Aerospace Defence Command Center (more commonly known as NORAD) is where the United States keeps its early warning systems. It's a big old building built into the side of a mountain that tracks radar information from hundreds of systems throughout the world. It tracks pretty much everything in the air throughout the world and every year they track Santa.

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/

Santa's real, a billion dollar radar defence network told me so.

Message from Dylly

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:44:25 GMT

I thought I heard reindeer on the roof last night...It might have been Dreeko with some coconuts...or could it be a secret new character in the...oooh oooh DRAGONS!

Message from ukBerty

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:12:32 GMT

Well I left a mince pie and a glass of sherry by the fire last night. I wonder if Santa will come today.............