TITLE: Life in Color, Where Available NAME: Adam Greengard COUNTRY: U. S. of A. EMAIL: greengard@toast.net WEBPAGE: http://members.toast.net/greengard/ TOPIC: Life COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: lifeicwa.mpg RENDERER USED: trueSpace 3.0 TOOLS USED: trueSpace 3.0 for modeling/animating, Photoshop 4.0 for the title, and Cmpeg for encoding CREATION TIME: Characters - 1 months, scene/animating - 1 months, ender time - 12 hours HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: Life is obviously passing Thor by as he just sits bored, watching TV. Of course, when we do see what life is around there, maybe it's not such a bad thing. VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: If it looks too dark, turn up your monitor's brightness. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The characters were made first. They are made mostly of extruded splines, tho the arms and legs are just spheres and cylinders. Once all the parts were made, joints were added using the trueSpace IK tool. Next the scene was done, again, using mostly extruded splines. Finally, it was animated up. Probably the hardest part of this was finding things for Thor to do to show that he's bored. If there's any questions, feel free to ask.