TITLE: Const_LB NAME: Lou Bruce COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: lou_bruce@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: none at present TOPIC: Construction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: const_lb.mpg ZIPFILE: const_lb.zip RENDERER USED: Blender 2.21 TOOLS USED: Blender 2.21, VideoWave III for titles, Microsoft Image Composer for textures. Blender 2.21 for Rendering, Audiorack32 for sound editing, DDClip Free for final composition and soundtrack production and finally AVI2MPG1 for conversion from AVIJPG to MPG. CREATION TIME: 3 Months Final Rendering: 20 Hours HARDWARE USED: 650 MHz AMD Athalon K7, 256 MB RAm ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: It's lunchtime and Tubby's in a hurry to get to his lunchbox. The chicken has decided it's his lunchbox. The struggle results in Tubby falling off the beam. VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Window Media Player DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The Chicken was modeled for a co-workers web-page. Tubby was modeled based on a 3DMax tutorial. My boss saw Tubby's neutral pose and said he looks like he's walking a tightrope. That's how the story came to be. For those of you interested in opening the Blender file, Blender is available as a freeware download at www.blender.nl.