TITLE: Intimidation

NAME: Marco Bucci
COUNTRY: Canada

EMAIL: bucci@worldy.com
WEBPAGE: http://bucci.worldy.com/

TOPIC: Creatures
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: mbfight.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    trueSpace 3.2


TOOLS USED: 
    trueSpace 3.2, Avi2Mpg1 for .mpg conversion


CREATION TIME: 
    Render Time 20 hours approximately
               Conversion Time: 5 minutes 


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 300 mhz, w/256 mb ram.


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    This animation shows two very deadly creatures trying to
intimidate eachother before a fight.  The Gila monster (lizard on the right
side of the screen) flares its brutal teeth, and chomps at the scorpion
(anarchid on the left of the screen).  During this, the scorpion is trying to
scare the Gila Monster by lashing its tail, and pumping its pincers.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Windows Media Player works great, as does ATI Player.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    Both of the creature models you
see here took me a very long time and are very complex.  This would never have
been possible without the help of Darris Dobbs and his creature tips and
tutorials.  I used the traditional forward kinematics technique to animate the
two creatures.  The reason that this animation is somewhat short is because of
the humongous amount of time it takes to render.  The reason it takes so long
is because the creatures are heavily (and I mean heavily) detailed, and detail
means more polygons for the renderer to cope with.  I do beleive, though, that
in order for an animation to be good, and to inspire people, the subjects in
the animation must be 'beleivable' 3D models, and not detail-lacking 'plastic'
creatures.