TITLE: Call Of Nature

NAME: Chris D'Arcy
COUNTRY: Australia

EMAIL: Chris_Darcy_IRTC@Yahoo.Com.Au
WEBPAGE: 

TOPIC: Force Of Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: cdcan.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Max 3


TOOLS USED: 

Terragen
Forrest Lite Plugin for Max
Jetareyes 

Map of Africa - Courtesy of The General Libraries, The University of Texas at
Austin.


CREATION TIME: 
    On and Off for 6 weeks


HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 366


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

Man goes in search of wild mountain gorilla.
He finds one and discovers how scared he was...
but not as scared as the gorilla!


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DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


Storyboard.

I then identified all items that required modelled.
I had modelled the gorilla and man before the competition. 
I had not textured or Bipeded them.
I played with Terragen to produce 4 1280 x 600 images for the background.
I then played with the Forest Lite plugin.
I created a basic scene file which had all elements.

Any actions by characters where animated in a separate scene with just bipeds.
I added Jeta Reyes mouth animations as a layer over the top of the body
animations.
Lots of test rendering.
Work out timing of scenes and actions
Re-render, change, re-render, change......for about two weeks.
Then I showed it to my family & friends at work (thanks Julie, Mary, Michele,
Dale & Jerry)
They provided me with criticism and suggestions.
I applied what I could and what I wanted to. 
Next time I will do this step earlier as some of the suggestions and storyline
ideas were good and I would liked to have used them.