TITLE: Bugbot
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: vansickl@erols.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.erols.com/vansickl/povray.htm
TOPIC: Toys
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: bugbot.mpg
ZIPFILE: bugbot.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.02

TOOLS USED: 
    text editor, cmpeg, pencils, paper

CREATION TIME: 
    12 hrs, 48 minutes on a P166
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  This animation loops, so view it on repeat.

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    An animated robot walks across the ground.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    I took an old model and did the
math to articulate the joints so that they followed the path of the feet.  The
ground uses a normal_map and the repeat warp in order to have the granite
pattern appear to repeat at regular intervals.  I would have used a tiled
floor, but everyone's tired of that, I'm sure, and the surface I used made for
a smaller .MPG file.