@Gwenn I can make it

I will later

@Gwenn Can't we derive the quality of the story from its score?

more votes, higher quality?

@GiantCowFilms Yeah, but using named options helps standardize how people vote, and ensures that they are voting on story quality specifically instead of other features.

How about we use this poll to chop off the really bad ones, so we can do a better job vetting the good ones

sidenote: I'm making the poll tomorrow morning, as per the deadline

I have some updates to make on some of my pitches

as well as maybe a new one.

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ I meant tomorrow, I dunno why I didn't put that in the message, oops.

Phew

Back

@Gwenn By custom sound, what do you mean? I certainly think in order to make a bazaar you will need some custom sounds . . .

@Gwenn I adjusted some of the stats on my pitches based off of the more detailed vision i have in my head

Also, for number of animated characters, how are you getting those figures

Yeah, if everyone can do the ones we aren't voting on for their own pitches that would help

BTW, what are you scales

nvm, I found your key

How on eath did you get 3-5 different environments for pancake

??

One complex environment for sure

its really one complex one, and maybe another two that will probably be able to be done to the most minor minor degree.

Those can be really sketchy though

@Gwenn did you even read the pitches? you gave the pancake moderate particle sims when it involves an entire flaming kitchen receiving major screen time!

@Gwenn BTW, projected length will be WAY easier to determine with scripts

Infact its worthless trying to predict that since SO many of these films can have variable length

BTW - those judging my ability to guess render times, I will point out its based on a fairly simple pricipal

Render times, in cycles, are largely based on the shaders involved.

Knowing the shaders, I can easily guess the required number of samples, and how long it will take to get those samples

Now I'm not totally accurate, but my estimated times have a 40% accuracy range

(as in, if you multiple the time I guess by .4, the actual time will be close to within that range)

and for an animation, we should be aiming for under 3 min per frame, so 40% error isn't going to put me out by that many minutes.

Soooooo the deadline was 7 UTC, right? I'm not sure when that is, but I figure it was either a while ago, or is right now... Anyone have a last minute pitch?

@BookWyrm17 If it's today, it's not within 8 and a half hours

ah

@BookWyrm17 It is tonight

Ah. Yep. I was waaay off

Two more pitches! How could we make them better?

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ ?

Did I do my calculations correct?

Acc. google, 7pm is in 2 and 1/2 hours

@Gwenn That is going to complicate the poll a lot, but okay

@Gwenn you angel pitch really needs more fleshing out, otherwise it will get a Okay Story from me, because you haven't proved it can meat the other criteria.

After reviewing my WIP poll I was rather disappointed to notice none of our pitches score very well on the ending portion. I'd be cool to see some with gag or twist endings.

I really liked the Kiwi one where he died, and the Ormie one where his head got stuck in the jar - none of ours are like that.

(Infact, in my mind, nearly all our pitches are less DIY animation ideas as much live action suitable ideas)

Oh well....

GCF is proud to present his new objective voting poll. Poll takers at random may be asked to justify decisions, so so GCF can see if his poll is working.

Please just read, don't vote, the deadline is not for another two hours: docs.google.com/forms/d/…

So, has everyone lost interest in this project yet?

Nope

awesome

so do we vote, or wait?

I would like some feedback on my pitches survey (cc @Gwenn @TARDISMaker @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ @BookWyrm17)

@X-27 wait until 7 PM UTC, which is in about 1 hour and forty min

um... I can wait until then...

ping spam me when it is time to vote.

and why can't we vote now?

In case someone wants to add another pitch

better think fast!

Where IS your pitches survey, @GiantCowFilms ?

@X‐27

we set a deadline and everything! Though I think it could have ended yesterday without much of a problem... I did think of two more pitches though.

@BookWyrm17 docs.google.com/forms/d/…

Feedback please

its also still another hour until we vote

I'm trying to get objective votes on the story quality, hopefully

just the quality of the story, nothing else.

just the story.

as in, the background story?

like, the intro to every game, that type of story?

so, a bunch of scenes of vehicles blowing up by itself wouldn't have much story, but the announcer hating the radish, and X-27 trying to destroy everything would be elements that increased the amount of story...?

Did you see my story scale

one of the categories was "Interesting Action"

which explosions etc fall under

in your scoring scale, if you like, you could give it more points

@X-27

How long till voting?

Also, have a link to the pitches on the poll page

20 min

hang on, recovering the BE server

ok

it ran out of ram, and died

Please take the Story-Value poll for the pitches. Try to be objective, feel free to pass any questions by me, as well as feedback on the poll. The average values from these polls will be plugged into our Pugh Matrix, to determine which ideas are most viable. @Gwenn @gandalf3 @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ @X-27 @TARDISMaker @BookWyrm17 @GiantCowFilms @RadishofKnowledge

Coolo

Cool!

What do the pink rows mean?

I think it just means you have to fill them in

as in ME or as in everyone?

Everyone

Who on earth gave the mystical island a 5 when it didn't even have an ending figured out?!?!

Did someone leave the conclusion off of their voting criteria?

Is there any room for an extra person?

Sure, are you actually going to help with the animation though?

do you have time?

@GiantCowFilms Any-way I can. Is this time intensive or time-flexible?

Its you need to contribute enough to make it worth our time to on-board you and to manage you.

Oh whoops. I didn't write the ending?

otherwise you'll be dragging us down

@BookWyrm17 no . . . its a we bit late though

I thought for sure I had... It was like, two sentances

votes have been cast based on its standing state.

but you might as well

@GiantCowFilms How do I contribute? What is to be contributed?

Yeah. Just to give it a good finish

sorry bout that :/

I'm not sure what to do but I'm reading this

great! :D

@BlenderWarrior We are making an animation, you will basically be asked to help in whatever way you can, animating, modeling, texturing rendering, lending computer processing power etc.

at this stage we are still determining what to make.

@GiantCowFilms Okay, um, do you mind if I add myself here

Sure

Do I have to fill in the "Dramatis Personae" and the Pitch stuff to?

Nah

that stage is now basically over

you don't really "earn" membership

you just contribute, whenever you feel like

@GiantCowFilms So I just need to wait for new "assignment" basically? (sounds fun!)

voted.

Yeah, just follow along and chip in

@X-27 I noticed... so you didn't like my pancakes D;

so, are we going to dump most of the pitches after this?

@GiantCowFilms lol. so you can see who voted for what?

Yup

Currently @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ hungrey cow is wining

followed probably by pancakes and bazzare

Of course! why would I even think that votes would be anonymous?

where does racing end up?

Badly

its getting flat threes

except for you

Also, some pitches are more controversial, while some have gotten four equal votes

hummm....

@X-27 also, by openly admitting to being biased, you gave us ground to exclude your vote :/

'cause you'll kinda mess us up if you gave everyone a bad vote to try and put your racing one into the lead

lol

I actually checked both.

I was only marginally biased.

That as an error on my part, making them checkboxes

lol

@gandalf3 are you gonna vote?

Yep, actually was just doing that right now XD

Fancy spreadsheet

That looks really handy

:D

Should I make up values for my pitch and put them in? Or just for the length column?

Sure

we are running on best guesses

Well I guessed my best

@BlenderWarrior Interesting Votes.....

What was you're method?

@GiantCowFilms Method?

I mean what were your criteria, and how did you apply them to your score?

or did you just read the titles? :P

lol

His votes are virtually entirely opposite to the standing trends

odd

@GiantCowFilms I read all the pitches entirely and thoroughly, but...

Currently, @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Hungry Cow Leads, trailed closely by pancakes and ruleless racing

which made a comeback by not having any really low votes.

@GiantCowFilms Can you give a link to the results?

Hang tight

Sidenote: we may change the method from average....

@GiantCowFilms Because of @X-27? :\

not really

Okay

because someone gave pancakes and Bizzarre a one vote each

@BlenderWarrior but . . . what?

@GiantCowFilms But... I can't see my vote results...

@BlenderWarrior How does that effect your voting?

@TARDISMaker you should now be able to see

@TARDISMaker +1

I'm slightly mad though that people aren't being objective

cause if we are giving overly exadurated scores to boost certain pitches or sink them, everyone needs to be doing that

@GiantCowFilms Yeah

I was being somewhat objective...

Otherwise people give things like Ruleless Racing the 3 or 4 it deserves, instead of a One or something, which I would have done (cause I hate that idea).

@GiantCowFilms I voted based on a lot of standards including the examples...

Can I see them, for example, I'm curious why the pancake idea got a three from you.

But I was thinking about the results of the criteria

Everyone will think a little bit different which is why we are voting right?

and Gwenn's Bizzare a one

@BlenderWarrior Yes, but I'm still curious

@BlenderWarrior we are trying to figure out the actual worth of the story aspect

so when we stick it into the pugh matrix, we will see what are the best standing options.

@BlenderWarrior Are you going to answer my question though?

@BlenderWarrior We value your vote, we just wonder what your thoughts were

Exactly

@GiantCowFilms I understand, and I won't fight, but the pancake idea is more fading to humor and interesting action....

Ohh wait a minute

This is a two minute short film

@BlenderWarrior I see

Oh.... wow really, my bad

I can edit votes

if you wish to re-vote, ask me

I didn't add the points to the criteria and do the math, i'm sorry... my bad, can you remove my vote

Okay, I will delete it, and you can vote again :D

now you see why I was worried

:P

@GiantCowFilms Not really... I'm pretty sure I'd have to vote again to get to the page

@TARDISMaker dont'

@TARDISMaker try this URL: docs.google.com/forms/d/…

Exactly

and click on responses

docs.google.com/forms/d/…

everyone should take my questions

I did ;)

XD

@gandalf3 you get a record for longest time spent voting

how does one view results of their form?

@GiantCowFilms I realized I never wrote an ending for my pitch :P

go to edit, and tab into responses

@gandalf3 Um, it is tad late for that

Can't hurt though, right?

Sure

We could reconduct the poll

but at some point we are going to be stuck on this step for forever

Yeah

no, don't do that

I wont change what's already there

I already have the rest half-written

Well for example, I gave you a one or two or something, because I didn't know if you met many of my key requirements (getting you 0's in those categories)

Even if most of the votes don't take the end into account, oh well

@gandalf3 you should take my servey!

If its popular after the revisions, we could always re-poll it.

along with one of BookWyrms that was unfinished

and save people the trouble of all those other questions

Fair enough

Okay, so revise it and then vote

@X-27 I just did :)

You're welcome :)

I'm still doing math on the votes here

I'll have it done in 2085

I did it in my head

you just add up the values, and divide it by the constant that gives you five when you divide the total by it.

amazing, 100% of respondents answered 12345!

lol

docs.google.com/forms/d/…

XD

that one took me only two tries :P

:-)

Egotist . . .

@GiantCowFilms I know my math's i'm just playing around

NOOOO!!! @gandalf3 you ruined my results! I had 100% response saying 12345 on the final question.

@BlenderWarrior Now I'm worried again :P

how complicated is this algorithm?

@X-27 You can answer differently? I tried a different number and it didn't work!

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ it was left blank.

LOL

Figured it out?

?

Who figured what out?

What is being figured out?

What your favorite number should be

I answered that ages ago

Egotist = 27

lol

@GiantCowFilms I'll be honest, I'm doing a research report on a classmates model for school...

That's why it is taking me while

@GiantCowFilms The total points I can give a criteria is 5 right?

No

here is the idea

you give it points, for succeeding in each category, out of a cap doesn't matter what cap

you then take the max possible points (all the caps together), and find out what gives five when divided by it.

you divide your point totals by that

the key is that you weight categories

here is an example using the example chart

I'm going to look at the ruleless racing pitch

It has humor +1 point

it has good character (but not much focus on them) so I will give it +1 out of 2 points

It has a satisfying conclusion (a winner) +3 ponts

it has interpreting action +2 points

and 0 in all the other categories

The max points it could have earned are 12

so if we take the total points it earned, 7

Now we take the max possible points, and find X such that 12/X = 5, which is 2.4

Ahh!!

it would have a cool environment if I was the one making it,

Finally, we divide 7 by 2.4

to get a score of 3

voila

That is how I voted