TITLE: The Impostor NAME: Sascha Ledinsky COUNTRY: Austria EMAIL: sascha@jpatch.com WEBPAGE: http://www.jpatch.com TOPIC: Imposter! COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: impostor.mpg RENDERER USED: MegaPOV 1.1 TOOLS USED: JPatch (development version) JLipSync Audacity Zerius Vocoder TMPGEnc Wine to run Win32 applications on Linux CREATION TIME: About a month HARDWARE USED: Pentium IV, 2.8 GHz, 1GB, Linux ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: Someone's trying to obtain an I.R.T.C. award by fraud - he claims to be the famous Rusty robot (see John VanSickle's I.R.T.C. animations) and gets quite upset when unmasked. Fortunately the clerk at the I.R.T.C. museum is alert. But see yourself... I should note that Greg M. Johnson mentioned using Rusty for the impersonator topic on the newsgroups. Ordinarily, duplicating someone else's idea would be a bad thing, but given the topic, I think multiple submissions of the same basic idea would actually be quite appropriate. VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: It has got a soundtrack, including a spoken dialog, but I've also included subtitles to not violate any I.R.T.C. rules ;-) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: All objects have been modeled and animated by me using JPatch (www.jpatch.com). I've used MegaPOV to render it because some textures (the clerks hair and skin) use its AOI pattern to fake rim lights. The image on the wall is "Always running, never the same...", courtesy of Jaime Vives Piqueres (thanks Jaime!). I chose it because I wanted an IRTC winner image on display in the entrance hall of the museum - this one looked best when scaled down to that low resolution, and it is POV-Ray for Windows' splash-screen, so many people may recognize it. JPatch has still no support for bones, so I've animated everything using morphs. The clerk's voice has been recorded by David Cuny (thanks a lot!). For the robot voice I've used an online demo of AT&T's Natural Voices and the Zerius vocoder. The other sound samples were taken from various sources on the internet, and postprocessed using Audacity. The background music has also been created by David Cuny using Band In A Box. Finally I'd like to thank everyone on the JPatch forum for their valuable feedback and support, and of course the makers of POV-Ray and MegaPov!