EMAIL: lou_bruce@yahoo.com
NAME: Lou Bruce
TOPIC: Slow Motion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Bowlin
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: none at present
RENDERER USED: Blender 2.12
TOOLS USED: Blender 2.12, Amorphium for Text Modeling, Microsoft Image Composer for textures.
Blender 2.12 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: 14 Hours
HARDWARE USED: 233 MHz Pentium MMX
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Window Media Player

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
The sound of bowling pins falling in the darkness opens the scene. Two "spares" ponder the fate of there fallen companions. Suddenly they here the dreaded sound of an aproaching ball. Confused as to which way to move, to escape they start backing away from the end of the alley when disaster strikes.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
The main idea was inspired by the "SuperGenius" animation "Bowlin fer Souls". I loved the ability of the faceless pins to portray so much surprise, dread, anguish and terror.

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.