EMAIL: tlaville@club-internet.fr
NAME: Thierry Laville
TOPIC: Construction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Playing Cards
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: http://perso.club-internet.fr/tlaville
RENDERER USED: 3DStudioMaxR2
TOOLS USED: AVI2MPG1
CREATION TIME: about 2 months
HARDWARE USED: 800 MHz Pentium III 256 Mb
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: microsoft media player
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
As the most fragile constructions are often the most beautiful and hard
to build, i choose to show the contruction of House of cards.
(in France we say : Castle of Cards (Chateau de cartes), i don't know
the english term ...)
But the best way (up to me) was to give a proper life to the cards and
let them build their own construction.
So it gives the animation a cartoon touch, which is renforced with an
appropriate circus music and sounds effects.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
I didn't use any special or complicated technics there.
The major (and longest) work was spent on cards animations, in order to
obtain the most natural movements possible.
To make the movements of the cards, i used a free box deformation around
the mesh of the cards and manual key editing.

The mpeg compression make a great loss of quality in picture and sound.