TITLE: zzz
NAME: Gustavo Reyes
COUNTRY: Argentina
EMAIL: borderlandia@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/borderlandia/
TOPIC: Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: zzz.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Cinema 4D

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Draw, Cinema 4D, Photoshop

CREATION TIME: 
    3 days

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II, 160 Mb RAM, and my lame 14" Olivetti VGA monitor

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

This is a 2d fashion animation maked up in
a little 3d fashion.
There's a cat sleeping, and as always happens,
there's some boring barking animal, from who escape to.
The topic is cute, I hope my animation too.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

Windows Media Player works fine

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

This is the resume of the way that I work.

1- I began with a storyboard (saveTime)
2- I steal the general move of the animals from the
   Eadweard Muydbridge photos from Animals In Locomotion
   --the first movie scientist (in 1850?)
3- Make a lot of drawings, till I was comfortable with
   the feel of the movements. I scan them to see in a
   rough way the moves of the actors --make some helpers
   little video to see how to animate in general
4- Vectorize all the drawings in Corel Draw9,
   not automatically, just draw each of them. Export
   in the adobe illustrator to the aplication who
   understand the vectors.
5- In Cinema 4D, organize all the outlines, and make the
   extrusion of each piece of each draw.
6- Use the TimeLine to position the draws and render

A bit messed process, really, took to me about 4 days on
the complete makeup of the movie, but in the last day,
I discover just how to ease and make it more quickly,
(the workflow) and this work can be done just in 2 days.