TITLE: The Last Red Ball
NAME: Douglas G. Hummel
COUNTRY: Brazil
EMAIL: cdmagazine@uol.com.br
WEBPAGE: http://www.creative-online/redball

TOPIC: The end of...
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: red_ball.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3DS Max 6


TOOLS USED: 
    3DS MAX 6 (modeling, animation and rendering), Goldwave 4.26 (music
and sound editing), Adobe Premiere 6.5 (video editing and MPEG encode) and my
brain.


CREATION TIME: 
    About 40 hours


HARDWARE USED: 
    IBM-PC with AMD Duron, 1000 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, GeForce MX 200 Video
Card whith 32 Mb 


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


The history is about a red ball who lives in a gray cubes world. The ball thinks
that is alone and takes a walk between the gray cubes until it has a surprise
that can finish with its joy. See the movie...


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    I Used Windows Media Player without problems. See in
Full screen if possible.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


Does not have very what to speak about modeling of this movie. I begin from
simplicity idea giving life to the simple objects as a ball, for example. The
great challenge of this movie is show how to give expression in inanimate
objects that dont have faces, arms or legs.

The whole movie shows only one environment, therefore I created a standard scene
that had all elements that would be used in this movie. After this, I animated
each camera take and saved the individual file. After this, each scene was
rendered as avi video, and then edited in Adobe Premiere.

I created the major part of sound effects and I used the Goldwave to record and
edit the wave files. These had been added to the movie tracks in Adobe
Premiere, and then exported as MPEG file.

That is!! Have fun :)