TITLE: Falldown
NAME: Peter Thomas
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: thomas_4d@hotmail.com or thomas_4d@dingoblue.net.au
WEBPAGE: http://www.thomas4d.esmartdesign.com/
TOPIC: Slow Motion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: falldown.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    inspire3d

TOOLS USED: 
    inspire3d, mouth, the gimp & ulead media editor
( no plug-ins were used )

CREATION TIME: 
    21 days ( 3 days to render)

HARDWARE USED: 
    dual 500 MHz celeron 128 meg ram & win2000

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


the thoughts of a young alien boy when he falls over and what happens 
to time as he knowns it 


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    mpeg1 player or windows media player

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


i created this animation using inspire3d a cutdown version of lightwave 5.5
mainly to test and setup a character animation in inspire3d.
inspire has no Inverse Kinematics so thats why i created a character with no
arms or legs only hands & feet much easier.
i broke the project into two scenes first the falling down scene then the
talking scene ( if you hadn't noticed ) 
all modeling by peter thomas 

the surfaces of the walls, table & lounge surface are all procedural all the
other texturers were created in a free programme called the gimp
the floor texturer was made from a friends digital camera pics again using the
gimp

the lighting is one distance light parented to a null that is offset and
parented to another null that spins a 720 degrees a frame, with motion blue on
is give me softer shadows.they are also some point lights under the floor with
the shadows turn off and set at about 20% to fake a little Radiosity :) 

the lip scyning was done with a programme called mouth this app creates a morf
envelope so the morfing between the mouth shape targets is alot easier but i
had to 
draw up a dopesheet to show each frame and what was being said at all points of
the animation anyway 
( so when he said "me" the finger points, the ears pick up, the eyes enlarge etc
)
this took the most time to get right.
i tried to do this without a dopesheet but it look completely wrong :L(

rendering was again done in inspire3d output was 640X480.jpeg then edited
together in ulead media studio 5 the only thing added in ulead was the sound
track.

mpeg1 output was done using a TMPGEnc version beta12e