TITLE: Wind farms
NAME: Pascal Olice
EMAIL: p.olice@free.fr
WEBPAGE: www.oli3d.com
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: speed1.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Vue d'Esprit 4

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino, UVMapper, Paint Shop Pro

CREATION TIME: 
    2 months

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII, 800MHz

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

Did you ever wonder what those "wind farms" were for? Surely not to deliver a
few meager megawatts.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

This is my first go at animation, so please be forgiving.
I chose not to be overambitious, especially in terms of keyframing and IK.
Instead, I relied as much as possible on procedural animation, and I tried to
have a story to tell.
All modelling is home-made (Rhino NURBS), except the sailboat and the telephone
in the control room, which I found on the Web (free meshes). Coming from still
images, I worked quite a bit on textures and lighting, at the expense of
rendering time...