TITLE: Just A Mouse After A WindowsNT Crash

NAME: laurent antoine
COUNTRY: France

EMAIL: lemog@club-internet.fr
WEBPAGE: Not yet

TOPIC: slow motion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: a_mouse.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Maya3


TOOLS USED: 
    Maya3 - Photoshop


CREATION TIME: 
    8 nights


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium3 450


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

The pictures are speaking for them.
That's just a reaction after a system crash.


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DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

Polygonal modeling of two mouses.
The first, in high resolution with textures.
The second, in low resolution, whithout textures, whith the same number of
parts,
for simulating the crash.
The fall was created part by part, in dynamics, with original particularity of
materials mass (steel, plastic, rubber...), then convert in key frames.
Animation of every parts was touched up to avoid their contact.
A real mouse was used for modeling all parts like reality and throw on the
floor
to study the reaction at the impact time and the parts fallout.
The time line was increase to slow down animation.
When the animation was correct, transfer of key frames to the mouse high
resolution.
Lots of render to obtain a good result.
Cisors are animated like the mouse.
The final rendering was calculate in 50 frames/sec, then play at 25.
The mouse surfaces look was not obtain with bump,
but with a procedural shader rock used in the diffusion channel of material.