TITLE: A Day in the Life of a House Fly
NAME: Neil Alexander
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: stoker@sympatico.ca
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Life
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: nalife.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio MAX 2.5

TOOLS USED: 
    CMPeg

CREATION TIME: 
    3 months

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 2 233MHz


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    A fly ponders the meaning of life.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    I find that the Windows media player (newer version -
you can download it from microsoft.com) works fine. This animation is meant to
be played at 24 frames per second.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

Lots of frustration, difficulty, and setbacks. This was my first attempt at
animation using 3D Studio Max. I have been teaching myself over the past six
months, but I really learned a lot over the coarse of making this animation.
Since I didn't use POV to make this animation, I won't go into too much detail
about technical aspects of how this animation was made; anyone wishing to know
more may feel free to email me.

Most of the textures are procedural, and not much different from how I would
have created them in POV. 3D Studio did allow me greater control over certain
motions which would have been hard to replicate with POV, and allowed me to use
motion blur, but I found that there wasn't really that much that would have
been impossible to do with POV.

Anyway, I'm glad to be back in the contest after a long absence. I almost didn't
finish in time (it's the morning of the 15th as I write this, and I have just
finished my final rendering), and there are a number of things I would have
improved on, given the time. But, be that as it may, I have finished, and I
hope you like it.