TITLE: Bob's Big Escape
NAME: Chip Widmer
COUNTRY: U.S.A
EMAIL: thechip8@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: None
TOPIC: Pursuit/Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: bobbe.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Raydream Studio

TOOLS USED: 
    The GIMP, Adobe Premier, POV-RAY, Cmpeg

CREATION TIME: 
    1 1/2 months (on and off)

HARDWARE USED: 
    K6 500 MHZ, 64 MB RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

Bob, a member of the Zookila species, has been falsley accused of a terrible
crime and sent to an old dilapidated space prison. He has one unique ability:
When he's determined, his eyebrow turns gray. He has no intentions of staying
put. He begins his escape...

But Wait! A security bot! Good, Bob escaped. Start up the ship and....
He's free!


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Windows media Player

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

Old, superceded, but awesome. Raydream studio might be old, but it works. The
whole scene was modeled and animated with Raydream. This is my first ever
attempt at an animation, so bear with me. Bob is just a combination of two
spheres and a cylinder with eyes and eyebrows. The robot is also made out of
primitives. Since Raydream isn't equipped for character animation, Bob's "Hop
Cycle" was a little tedious, but it turned out all right. I had to do it from
scratch every time he hopped, which didn't turn out bad, because nothing hops
evenly anyway. =) His skin was created in POV-RAY and used as an image-map. The
Gimp was used to touch up some textures before use, and for some of the titles.
I used Premier to add titles and put the whole thing together. Cmpeg was used
to convert the targa sequence to an MPEG-1 file. This animation turned out
really good considering that I'm only 14 and had to do this in between
schoolwork. (Christmas break was a big help) =).