TITLE: ...and stay there!
NAME: marc-henry kerger
COUNTRY: Luxembourg
EMAIL: marc.kerger@xyz.lu
WEBPAGE: http://heng.webalias.com
TOPIC: alien invasion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: ast.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3dsmax3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    adobe premiere 5.1, vegas video2, corel9,

CREATION TIME: 
    2months+

HARDWARE USED: 
    dual 300 MHz Pentium II , 192 ram

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


why should we always be invaded, to martians we are aliens. 
and whats with all the space junk, solar system pollution
we can really mess up everything.
i must say 3dsmax is the best 3d tool, well its my favorite anyway.
been with it since studio 2.2 on dos!
this is my first "full-lenght" animation with many scenes. it is quite a
challenge
and takes very long. especially because you have to model tons of objects
then texture them, but first make the textures, then animate.
3 months is definitly not too long for a good animation.
i especially like how the final music perfectly matches the animation.
however i had to terribly rush the final scenes and there are still many
mistakes.
i had to rerender some scene parts and composite them as bluescreen parts to
save rendertime, 
to get finished on time. rendertime per frame is about 3 min. after assembly
there are almost 3000frames

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    ActiveMovie for Windows 95/NT works well