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.