TITLE: How Do They Do That?
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://enphilistor.50megs.com
TOPIC: Special Effects
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: rusty030.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.6.1

TOOLS USED: 
    MS Paint (to sketch ideas), LionSnake, CMPEG

CREATION TIME: 
    "Days, weeks, months, who knows..."

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon XP2400 w/ 512M Ram, Celeron 2000 w/ 256M Ram

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

We see how the Trans-Dimensional Collapsatron works.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

24 FPS, eyes open

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

I typed out a bunch of scene code (and modeled one item), rendered the frames,
and slapped it all together with CMPEG.

I use LionSnake to model the nanite (which has no moving parts).  The hull is
divided using my New Subdivision Surface Suite to make it smoother.

I also tweaked the colored cloud texture that is seen in the gate when it's
running.

The sparks are just spheres with solid media in them.

Rusty almost didn't make it into this one.