TITLE: Kidnapped!
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://enphilsitor.users4.50megs.com/irtc.htm
TOPIC: Classic Sci-Fi
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: POV-Ray editor, LionSnake modeler, pencils, paper
CREATION TIME: About 75 days
HARDWARE USED: Athlon XP 2400 desktop & Celeron 2GHz laptop
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS:
24 Frames per second
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
An escaped killer tomato means trouble.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
This entry marks the second time I've used a modeler for
one of the major models in an IRTC entry.  The aliens were
done using my new posable mesh modeler, which now has the
ability twist the end of each posable part (needed to get
the eyes straight).

The root scene file has a snippet of code which logs each
frame (whether test or final) as it's being rendered. 
Modeling and layout involved over 300 stills rendered at
640x480 and nearly 600 stills rendered at 800x600.  Test
animations, and "final" frames that were redone, added up
to over 11000 frames, and the final animation has 2281
frames.  Altogether there were over 4 gigabytes of rendered
images.

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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).