TITLE: Is Juggling A Sport?
NAME: Kevin Lynn
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: kjlynn@gmail.com
WEBPAGE: www.telefish.net
TOPIC: Sports
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Art Of Illusion 
TOOLS USED: Art Of Illusion 2.1, Pinnacle Studio 9, Java Media Studio
CREATION TIME: many evenings
HARDWARE USED: Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS:
Plays OK with Quicktime, Xine, and MS Media Player. Includes sound.
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
This is a small video essay that asks the question: "is juggling a sport?". An artist's drawing mannequin attempts to provide a juggling demonstration as an accompaniment to the narration.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
I couldn't get the MPEG file down to 10 mb without degrading the quality a bit more than I wanted to. I hope to post a higher-res version elsewhere later.

The project consists of 7 "takes". Each one is an animation generated from a separate AoI scene. I rendered them as .MOV files during development, then converted the .MOVs to .AVI using the Java Media Studio. The AVI anims were sequenced and the audio was added with Pinnacle Studio 9.

Voice talent is provided by Rachelle Schoessler Lynn.

One of my favorite computer animations is the classic Amiga Juggler: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/erniew/juggler.html

Other References:
Art Of Illusion: http://www.ArtOfIllusion.org/
Java Media Studio (JMF): http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/
http://www.jumpusa.com/juggling.html
http://www.juggling.org/animations/
http://web.reed.edu/sports_center/classes/pages/juggling.htm