TITLE: Headhunter
NAME: Richard Webster
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: irtc_mail@yahoo.co.uk
TOPIC: Classic Scifi
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: head.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Maxon Cinema4D CE6

TOOLS USED: 
    TMPGEnc
RENDER TIME: 9 Hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Duron 1.1GHz 1GB RAM


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


 This evolved from an idea of a head-hunting alien who has been
 visiting the home planets of various creatures from 1950's
 atomic-age flying saucer movies and has one head left to collect.

 The aim of the modelling was to create things similar enough to
 spot the reference without being direct copies. The films I had
 in mind were: Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth and The Day the
 Earth Stood Still, with a bit of Flash Gordan and some 50's Earth
 technology thrown in.

 The scenes were set out for compositing but render times were
 short enough not to bother in the end.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


 All the modelling was done in C4D. Most things are NURBS except
 for the humans and landscapes which are tweaked C4D meshes.
 The Earth texture is the NASA Blue Marble from
 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/.

 All animation is keyframed except for some saucer movements which
 are scripted. The alien mouth is done by point-level animation on
 the NURBS cage.

 The frames were rendered uncompressed at 320x192 with antialiasing.
 TMPGEnc was used to encode the mpeg.