TITLE: The Stone Age Bus
NAME: Bjorn Emil Bech-Sonderby
COUNTRY: Denmark
EMAIL: sebem@post5.tele.dk
WEBPAGE: http://home5.inet.tele.dk/sebem
TOPIC: Transportation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: sab.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio Max

TOOLS USED: 
    Personal AVI Editor, Fast Movie Processor 1.2 and avi2mpg1

CREATION TIME: 
    It took about 11 days (only sparetime) to create my animation.
Since then I have used a lot of time just to get my animation rendered and then

to gather the pieces.


HARDWARE USED: 
    100 MHZ 80486DX4 With 24 MBytes Ram and 3.5 GBytes disk.


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    We are in the stone age just at that time when the first
(S)tone
(A)ge (B)us (SAB) was created. To the folks out there who doesn't know when that
was I
can only say that we are talking about 5000-6000 of years B.C. The bus is
actually
a hollowed out trunk. The wheels of the bus were at that time only big
rectangular
rocks (...it takes a big engine to run a bus like that). There isn't much of
story in the
animation. The only thing you have to have in mind is that this is a
reconstruction of
the first public transportation in the world. 

            ...and then the public
           transportation evolution
                  could begin.

                MOVING & MOVING
The bus is moving through and by big stones piled up like as though it was a
little 
Stonehenge, it is moving through forests and past fast food resturants called
"Mount 
Burgers". The bus is actually moving all the time as the animation starts over
and over
again (remember to punch the "Auto Repeat" button).


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Turn on the "Auto Repeat" button.
           Remember: Always use many screen colers. 
           > My animation was way too big so the compression ruined a 
             lot of the colors... Too bad. If you want to see what 
             the colors should have looked like - look at the movie 
             poster.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    The story was composed and
visually told by 
a hand drawed storyboard. Every object appearing in the animation is modeled by
me. The 
ground is actually a big grassy donut....