TITLE: TNT NAME: Mario Russo COUNTRY: Brazil EMAIL: mrussoart@yahoo.com TOPIC: Explosion COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Mental Ray 3.4 TOOLS USED: 3dsmax, Photoshop, TMPGENC CREATION TIME: around 48 hours HARDWARE USED: P4 2.8 1Gb RAM VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Quicktime player (no sound output needed) ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This animation was pretty much hard to finish in my spare time, but I'm glad I could finish it :) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: I started from an idea, of a soldier trying to explode a bridge pillar to stop an truck but something went wrong. then I made a quick story board to make everthing clearer and started on the scene setup and animating it like a crazy and rendering every take I finished. I started editing even before all the takes was finished or I could not finish the animation before the deadline. Everything is polygons and the character is animated with bones and IK and FK. With the whole animation rendered and edited I rendered it uncompressed again and compressed with TMPGEnc