TITLE: hopper NAME: Lou Bruce COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: lou_bruce@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: none at present TOPIC: Pursuit Escape COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: hopper.mpg ZIPFILE: hopper.zip RENDERER USED: Blender 2.1 TOOLS USED: Blender 2.1, Amorphium for Text Modeling, SolidWorks 2000 for the house model, Microsoft Image Composer for textures, Blender 2.1 for Rendering, Audiorack32 for sound editing, DDClip Free for final composition and soundtrack production and finally AVI2MPG1 for conversion from AVIJPG to MPG. CREATION TIME: 3 Months Final Rendering: 8 to 12 Hours HARDWARE USED: 233 MHz Pentium MMX ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: Hopper is suddenly aware of the menacing presence of a robot lawnmower. The mower has decided to eliminate Hopper. At first Hopper tries to simply evade the mower and finally he sees an escape. VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Window Media Player DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The core idea was suggested by a co-worker Damian Smith. I made five sketches of the basic scenes and started modeling. I modeled the Grasshopper first then the mower and the stick, I added a fence to my house and a new sky sphere. The house began as a project in SolidWorks for a freind, he wanted a model of a lake house he was considering building. I decided it would make a good backdrop for this animation. The zip file contains the complete animation without jpg textures. For those of you interested in opening the Blender file, Blender is available as a freeware download at www.blender.nl.