TITLE: Miracle
NAME: Thierry Laville
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: tlaville@club-internet.fr
WEBPAGE: http://perso.club-internet.fr/tlaville
TOPIC: Transformation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: miracle.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3DStudioMaxR2

TOOLS USED: 
    AVI2MPG1

CREATION TIME: 
    about 2 months

HARDWARE USED: 
    800 MHz Pentium III 256 Mb

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

A long time ago, Jesus accomplished the miracle of changing water into wine.
Since this time, man is waiting for a sign of god.
The animation shows this Miracle, done once again inside a big cathedral.
There is sound in this animation, and synchronicity between image and sound, so
it's a good idea to branch your headphones.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    microsoft media player

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

The cathedral took me a lot of time, especially to raise the detail level and to
make it realistic.
I used a animated noisy and ray-traced material to make the transformation of
water into wine.
The Chalice have a metallic ray-traced material too.

I used particules to make the angel dust, on which i applied ligthning and glow
effects.
I used volumetric light to make the god light.

The mpeg compression make a great loss of quality in picture and sound.