TITLE: "The Distress Call from the Cheerleaders' Camp on the Moon Ioff"
NAME: Greg M. Johnson
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: pterandon@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/pterandon/anims.html
TOPIC: Journey
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: cheered.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Modeller "Povray, the raytracer, not a modeller"; MainActor to make
MPG

CREATION TIME: 
    probably 20 hrs

HARDWARE USED: 
    2.8 and 1.0 GHz Aptiva

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

The adventures of Mime Man, introducing a new villain.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

Suspend disbelief for a bloody minute

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I decided late in the game to enter, probably only about 2-3 weeks ago. I've had
great fun putting this together and hope it's sufficiently entertaining given
the relative lack of time put into it. 

The title sequences are based on ABX's proximity macro which was posted to
povray.text.scene-files.

The landscape is based on the benchmark.pov scene file distributed with povray
3.5. I changed the sky to that used by myself in a 1999 animation and changed
hopefully enough things to make it my own, including the formula for the
pattern in the sand.  The rocket is from my 1999 animation. 
 
Mime Man, my povray-based blob character, now has hair, removed shoulder
growths, an object pattern for a chest logo, and can talk!

The villain is another blob character.  Yes, it's *supposed* to be creepy, but
more like a competent villain cackling instead of someone with a mental
disorder.

I discovered at the last minute that I had 13 MB of material, so I had to
arbitrarily shorten all the scenes without concern for aesthetics or plot.