TITLE: Jack
NAME: Steve Schaneville
COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: steve@idsmail.com
TOPIC: Toys
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: jack.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    trueSpace 3.1


TOOLS USED: 
    None


CREATION TIME: 
    Modeling 1 hour
               Animation: 30 minutes
               Rendering: 1 hour (183 frames)


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 266 w/ 64 Mb RAM



ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


Just a jack being thrown against a garage door.



VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 


Well, my 90 MHz isn't fast enough, but the 266 made the animation look good (30
fps).



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I'm not looking for any points for this... basically I modeled a garage door and
a jack.  I told trueSpace that the jack should have the properties of metal
(properties include mass, air resistance, elasticity, and surface friction).  I
gave the jack an initial velocity and rotation vector, and said "go". 
Basically the computer did the whole animation, I only tweeked a little at the
end (it bounced around for too long, very unrealistic).

I just bought this program a few weeks ago.  The only reason I submitted the
animation is because I'm excited about having the program, and I wouldn't have
been able to create this animation without it or a similar program (not to say
it can't be done, I just don't have the ability).