TITLE: le_piaf

NAME: hoff gilles
COUNTRY: France

EMAIL: gilles3d@club-internet.fr
WEBPAGE: Not yet

TOPIC: slow motion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: le_piaf.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Maya3


TOOLS USED: 
    Maya3 - Photoshop


CREATION TIME: 
    30 nights


HARDWARE USED: 
    dual Pentium3 450


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

I choosed a black and white display (it's a personal choice). At the begining,
all is very abstract till
we discover that it is a bird. Then we can see the animation in slow motion in
order to describe the whole
flying cycle, and finally the bird's landing.

I want to describe a flying bird and my goal was to have a very graphic result.
I would like a 2D aspect "etching
type" for the graphic aspect; and i used the 3D to show the whole bird kinematic
in slow motion.


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DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

Technic used :        - All the models are created in polygon
         - A procedural shader (PatternShader style etching)
         - Programming (in MEL (Maya language)) of a box for piloting the bird's
skeleton
         - Smooth skinning and inverse kinematic for animation
         - Animation build in keyframes and edited with the Maya Trax (Nonlinear
character animation)
         - Render in raytracing with motion blur and without shadows (Not to
hamper the lisibility).