EMAIL: sshelby@shelbyvision.com
NAME: Steve Shelby (alias Pops Beardsly)
TOPIC: The End
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Tragic End of Mr. Snow
COUNTRY: USA
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RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Moray 3.5, Corel PhotoPaint 8, and Videomach
CREATION TIME: About 30 hours
HARDWARE USED: 2Ghz Pentium4
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Any will do. 
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This is the age-old story of the demise of a snowman, done in a humorous way.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: I used Moray, and the Moray Animation plugin, to create the entire animation. It consists of seven separate clips, which were edited into one with Videomach. All parts of the snowman are mesh2 objects made with Moray. The snow on the ground and the grass are heightfields. The crowd of onlookers is an image map, taken from a collection of royalty-free photos included in Corel PhotoPaint. I created all images for heightfields and image maps with PhotoPaint. The circling vultures are a font(!),called bird sillhouettes. The scrolling texts are image maps.