TITLE: Summer, Palms, Sunshine
NAME: Benjamin Winter
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: nanoinverno@web.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.Nanoinverno.bl.am
TOPIC: Travelling
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: bwquackl.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.6 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Ulead Video Editor 6.0 (only for creating the mpg-file, I used no
effects or something like that)


CREATION TIME: 
    more then 10 weeks
RENDER TIME: 88h40m for 3081 frames

HARDWARE USED: 
    2GHz, Pentium 4, 765MB RAM


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


This animation shows some migratory birds flying away from the winter/searching
summer, palms & sunshine. They fly over europaean countryside, the Alps, Egypt
and arive somewhere in the south.



VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    maybe turn the light down, some things may be even
dark, I wanted to render it again but had no more time


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I created everything in this animation with POV-Ray(also the poster and all
textures and pigments). I often used high fields(the landscape, moon, island,
mountain, water, pyramid) basing on an average pigment. The birds are made of
blobs, apart from the eyes. The most objects I made are macros with many
variables to control the object but get random ones, too. For the clouds I used
a disc-like surface so they are only 2-D and facing the camera but the texture
of the cloud is a 3-D-funktion and I made it possible to use layers, so the
camera can move and the clouds look nearly like they would look with media, but
that is faster.
The terrain is parted into two high filds, a small(closer to the camera) and a
big(surrounding the small) -, the big one is ten times bigger then the
small(with 5000x5000 units). mostly I took a high-field-resolution of
600*600pixel for both.
Maybe the objects and the landscape don't really fit together. First I wanted to
do everything comic-like but the terrain-texture is maybe too detailed.
The island at the end is the moon from the first scene, it gives the animation a
kind of frame.
Thats my first time I am taking part in a competition in general.

special thanks to my cheese :)