TITLE: FLY TRAP, or Bugs Just Want to Have Fun
NAME: Greg M. Johnson
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: gregj56590@aol.com
WEBPAGE: None yet.
TOPIC: Animation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: flytrap.mpg
ZIPFILE: flytrap.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 3D

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray v. 3.02 to compose image on TV screen
             Spatch v. 1.5 to compose basketball player's head
             Bryce 3D to compose scene and generate a 58MB .AVI file
             Corel Photopaint 7 to convert .AVI to .MPG and compose movie
poster.

CREATION TIME: 
    Rendering time approx 12 hrs.
               AVI to MPG conversion time:

HARDWARE USED: 
    Aptiva C9E, 200 MHz Pentium

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    Do bugs ever play with kids' toys when no one is around?
A housefly has an unfortunate run-in with a child's toy. 

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    dunno.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    See "Tools Used." The biggest
challenges in creating this piece were using Bryce's texture editor to create a
realistic texture for the basketball (I failed) and getting the lighting just
right (I probably failed). This animation is the result of less than a month of
self-motivated tinkering with Bryce.