EMAIL: darko.martic@public.srce.hr
NAME: Darko Martic
TOPIC: Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Infinite game voyage
COUNTRY: Croatia
WEBPAGE: http://jagor.srce.hr/~damartic
RENDERER USED: NewTek LightWave 3D
TOOLS USED: Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Animator, AVI2MPG1
CREATION TIME: 5 days
HARDWARE USED: iPentium 166, 32 MB RAM, ATI 3D Xpression+PC2TV 4 MB
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Windows Media Player 5.0 works well
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

This animation shows a journey of one billiard ball between several friendly games.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

I created the objects using the standard LightWave Modeler tools; such as bevel,
MetaNURBS and tools for creating primitive objects. Most of objects in animation are
very simple.

There are four scenes that create this animation, and each of them is another take.
In the tunnel, for Light, ball13 and camera I use the same motion path which I
also create in Modeler. In the basketball scene I use Effector plug-in to make it look
like the ball is really going through the net, and between games I use metamorph to change
surface of the ball to apropriate game.

With Adobe Photoshop I created images for surfaces.

All along, I was using Autodesk Animator to create and AVI files so that I could
view the animation. I often converted it to MPEG using AVI2MPG1 to check to
see if my file size was still in range.

In the final rendering I use enhanced low antialiasing and 25% of motion blur.

I send with this animation a .zip file which contain a few object and surface files.

Sorry for my English :)