TITLE: Metaplosion
NAME: Frank Sarlette
COUNTRY: Belgium
EMAIL: frasar@mail.be
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Transformation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: metaplos.mpg
RENDERER USED: 

        also Cinema 4d XL7


TOOLS USED: 

        Adobe Photo Deluxe for some coulour-modifications on the Earth-map
        Cinema 4D XL for modeling, animation
        Avi2vcd for writing the avi-file to mpeg1-mode


CREATION TIME: 

            1 day

RENDER TIME :
        7min29sec for 300 frames


HARDWARE USED: 

            AMD Athlon 1,1 GHz


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


The earth turns around and looses its crust. Remaining is a fireball composed of
a lot
of little spheres and the centered-sphere of them becomes at new earth.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 


Everything in time and space is periodical.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I created a sphere as earth and then I placed in its center a group of little
spheres 
that were grouped in a metaball-object.(More spheres, all have the same center,
make
the metaball-object more bigger). The sphere has a
visibility-motion-key-sequence,
so it can disappear while turning around. The little sphere that becomes earth
has a
texture-motion-key-sequence.