EMAIL: marc.kerger@xyz.lu NAME: marc-henry kerger TOPIC: alien invasion COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: ...and stay there! COUNTRY: Luxembourg WEBPAGE: http://heng.webalias.com 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 VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: ActiveMovie for Windows 95/NT works well 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