TITLE: Archivolution
NAME: Pawel Zalewski
COUNTRY: Poland
EMAIL: coolavy@xl.wp.pl
WEBPAGE: -
TOPIC: Evolution
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: archi.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pocray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Spatch, MorphingSpatch, Moray, Animation Shop, Avi2mpg

CREATION TIME: 
    about 3 weeks

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1800XP+ 256MB RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    I think that it's a reather original idea to show an
evolution not as it is in nature (from a seed to a tree for example), but in
other way. I want to show the evolution in architecture from an ancient ages
through a medival, XIX century, till present-day and future (O.K maybe this
rocket doesn't look like a intergalactic, lightspeed spaceship, but I had not
too much time). 


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DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

It's the first animation I've created and I must say that it was realy hard job.
First of all I've created a key frame models with SPATCH. Next I've used a
MORPHING SPATCH to create frames between key frames. After that I had to use
Spatch again and export all models(150 files) one by one to MORAY. In MORAY
I've created a backgrond, lights and camera and puted it into one file wich I
used as a layout to whole animation. I also created layer texture with 4
difrent layers, every one for difrent part of animation (pillars, chimney,
skycreaper, rocket) When I've done that I've merged all frames with the layout,
and rendered it in POVRAY. In the end I've conected all pictures together in
ANIMATION SHOP and converted it into MPEG1 format with AVI2MPEG. As I said it
was realy exhausting job, especialy exporting 150 files one by one from one
program to another.