TITLE: The Tragic End of Mr. Snow
NAME: Steve Shelby (alias Pops Beardsly)
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: sshelby@shelbyvision.com
TOPIC: The End
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: mrsnow.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.5, Corel PhotoPaint 8, and Videomach

CREATION TIME: 
    About 30 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    2Ghz Pentium4

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    This is the age-old story of the demise of a snowman,
done in a humorous way.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Any will do.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    I used Moray, and the Moray
Animation plugin, to create the entire animation. It consists of seven separate
clips, which were edited into one with Videomach. All parts of the snowman are
mesh2 objects made with Moray. The snow on the ground and the grass are
heightfields. The crowd of onlookers is an image map, taken from a collection
of royalty-free photos included in Corel PhotoPaint. I created all images for
heightfields and image maps with PhotoPaint. The circling vultures are a
font(!),called bird sillhouettes. The scrolling texts are image maps.