TITLE: Showbots
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: vansickl@erols.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.erols.com/vansickl/povray.htm
TOPIC: Inner Workings
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: showbots.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows.

TOOLS USED: 
    Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper

CREATION TIME: 
    Each frame took about 20 minutes to render, so I
suppose it took about two weeks to render all of the frames.  The
design time, including time spent on discarded ideas, ran to about
300 hours.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  Full color, 24 frames per second.

HARDWARE USED: 
    K6-2 @ 300MHz, 32 Megs of RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    Rusty learns something about Rosie.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I typed out a bunch of scene code, rendered the frames, and slapped
them together with an MPEG compiler, just like I always do.

This is only the second time I've used spot lights in any project;
if you are observant, you can see the first use in a prior IRTC entry.

The blocky digital censoring, and the fades between different shots,
were accomplished by using rendered frames as the input for yet another
rendering.  Sometimes the resultant frames were used yet again in another
rendering.

If you have any other questions about things, e-mail me directly, or
leave comments on the comments page.