TITLE: I believe NAME: Uwe Post COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: uwe.post@upcenter.de WEBPAGE: http://upcenter.de TOPIC: Force COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: ibelieve.mpg RENDERER USED: MegaPOV 0.7 TOOLS USED: AVI2MPG2 1.24 Beta 13, Terragen, Forester, Object Bender include file CREATION TIME: the cow sequence three days, the rest rendered very fast. Two months from idea to complete animation. HARDWARE USED: AMD Duron 700 ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: I believe in the force that created the universe... VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Watch it at fullscreen size with any MPG capable viewer. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The topic gave me the possibility to make a film about what I believe in. This is what I did. The animation consists of a couple of single scenes, some of which just contain text. The cow is a model from the internet, converted to povray. The neck was bent with the object bender include file made by cris colefax. It took 45 min to render a frame of this sequence, I didn't find out why, so my PC had do calculate for a few days just for the cow sequence. It dreamed about cow necks afterwards I think. I assembled the whole thing with MainActor 3.65 (mainactor.de, actually not a free program, it could have been done with any video sequencer, but I obtained MainActor for DV editing so what) I would like to thank: Marshal A.J. Paterson - the original soundtrack Bob Hughes - the sun object Yann Ramin - the stars Chris Colefax - galaxy object and object bender Micha Riser - the earth object