EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
NAME: John VanSickle
TOPIC: Transformation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Rusty's Nightmare
WEBPAGE:  http://users4.50megs.com/enphilistor/irtc.htm
COUNTRY:  US of A
RENDERER USED:  MegaPOV-Ray 3.1g for Windows.
TOOLS USED:  Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper
HARDWARE USED:  K6-2 @ 300MHz, 96 Megs of RAM
CREATION TIME:  I got started on this project as soon as the topic was
announced.  Final rendering was complete on 15 July 2001.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  Full color, 24 frames per second.
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:  Rusty has a disturbing dream.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

I typed out a bunch of scene code, rendered the frames, and slapped them
together with an MPEG compiler, just like I always do.

I had originally intended a different kind of arm for Joe, but I couldn't get
things to look as cool as I wanted.  So I did what you see here.  The red
cross is not hard-coded into the model, but can be replaced with any square
graphic if I were to re-use the model.

The animation you see here was not the original conception; due to some
serious attacks of Real Life I only had about six weeks to work on this, and
had to drop three or four shots (getting lauged at by friends, falling into a
pit, waking up, usw).

The distortion at the edges of the view is accomplished by adding a normal
statment to the camera.  Very simple.

If you have any other questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave
comments on the comments page (and be sure to put your e-mail address in the
comments; sometimes the bot records the wrong address).