All the votes are in for the July-October 2004 round of the Internet Ray
Tracing Animation Competition, and the winners are:

   First place:   Highnoon (tw_1200.mpg) by Tim Nikias Wenclawiak, aka "Tim Nikias v2.0"
   Second place:  Storm Spirits (storm.mpg) by Jimmy Tang
   Third place:   Dueling Empires (sb004.mpg) by John VanSickle

And our Honorable Mentions for this round are:

   Artistic Merit:   Gladiators (jmacduel.mpg) by Julian MacDonald
   Technical Merit:  "That is *Unlikely* to be your Last Battelfield" (unlikely.mpg) by Greg M. Johnson
   Concept/Theme:    Duel for Eternity (longduel.mpg) by Steve Shelby

The complete tabulated results of the public vote are available:

   ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/2004-10-15/zipped-up/results.txt
   http://www.irtc.org/anims/2004-10-15.html

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in the
competition.  Please join us for the current round!

--
The IRTC Admin Team