TITLE: Pellet Power
NAME: Josh English
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: english@spiritone.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.spiritone.com/~english
TOPIC: Pursuit/Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: pellet.mpg
ZIPFILE: pellet.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g, Mega-POV 0.6, cmpeg

CREATION TIME: 
    The render took about 3 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Design and testing was done on a G3 Power PC and an iMac
The final render was done on an IBM 600x laptop running W2k

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    Pac Man, Blinky, and the Power Pellet.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Any should do

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

The idea hit me about thiry seconds after I read the topic for this round. I
spent a
week on the maze and then two more getting the ghosts to work. Then three weeks
of timing the animation. The animation was rendering fine on my two Macintosh 
systems, but the ghosts point of view shot was crashing the program on my Macs,
so I had to use a friends W2k laptop for the rendering and the mpeg encoding.

The two biggest challenges of this image were the ghosts skirts, and the
camera's
fly by of the maze. As with most of my work, I am happy with one, but not the
other.