EMAIL: greengard@toast.net
NAME: Adam Greengard
TOPIC: Life
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Life: in Color, Where Available
COUNTRY: U. S. of A.
WEBPAGE: http://members.toast.net/greengard/
RENDERER USED: trueSpace 3.0
TOOLS USED: trueSpace 3.0 for modeling/animating, Photoshop 4.0 for
the title, and Cmpeg for encoding
CREATION TIME: Characters - 1 months, scene/animating - 1 months,
ender time - 12 hours
HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: If it looks too dark, turn up your monitor's
brightness.

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
Life is obviously passing Thor by as he just sits bored, watching
TV.  Of course, when we do see what life is around there, maybe
it's not such a bad thing.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
The characters were made first.  They are made mostly of extruded
splines, tho the arms and legs are just spheres and cylinders.
Once all the parts were made, joints were added using the trueSpace
IK tool.
Next the scene was done, again, using mostly extruded splines.
Finally, it was animated up.  Probably the hardest part of this was
finding things for Thor to do to show that he's bored.
If there's any questions, feel free to ask.