TITLE: Full Throttle
NAME: Alexander Artemenko
COUNTRY: Russia
EMAIL: art@cps.tver.ru
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: throttle.mpg
ZIPFILE: throttle.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    DTA, Adobe Premiere, homemade utility (i call it povmorpheus), oh
and hamaPatch of couse!

CREATION TIME: 
    I don't know, about one month, but rendering only one night )

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon XP 1600

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


The topic of this competition is SPEED. Speed it is a car, car it is a road,
road it is landscape, landscape it is desert, desert it is a...
... and so on :). This is description of my animation. You MUST see it!
Car-turtle, road and amazing SPEED, adn sound track by Machine Head!!!



VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    DivX 4 or above (under Linux you can use mplayer)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


So, what i want to say?..
...mmm, forgot...
...ok, i remember!!! There is!
PovRay is awesome tool! It has been used to render all (almost all really :))
frames of my animation.

First I have used hamaPatch, to create main part, of the car model -
turtle's shell and body. Than i create wheels and axes as simple CSG.

I wanted to make my tourtle autonomous, so there is some scripts inside.
You can look into the shell if unzip applyed archive and see poray files.

So, i make wheels rotatable, and my turtle made her first "steps".

Next I have use hamaPatch again to create road track, desert and some
flora outside track.

One of the textureas was made using The GIMP. It is to complex for me
(while, i hope) to make such textures with PovRay facilites. I really
Like my "road" texture, with white striped line.

In the clip was used seven cameras. One at the start, next one - above left
front wheel, three cameras along car path, and other two in the air -
infront and behind of the car.


When all parts (one for each camera) were rendered. I make some still pictures
for title of the animation clip and run Adobe Premier. I really don't
know, how to use it so i simple arrange clips as I need, and use "dissolve"
transition. Also I have apply lens effect to one clip (I don't know how to
make this in PovRay, but belive, that it is not impossible :))

And finally, I needed some music to make animation alive! And I find it
at one of the Machine Head disks! It was very simple to add this track
to whole clip.

Enjoy piples!!! I glad to take IRTC competition!!!