EMAIL: troy@troydolyniuk.com
NAME: Troy Dolyniuk
TOPIC: Dance
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Having A Ball
COUNTRY: Canada
WEBPAGE: 
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6.1c.icl8.win32
TOOLS USED: AviCreator, TMPGEnc, MS Paint
CREATION TIME: Rendered in 17m 32s
HARDWARE USED: Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz (Dell Latitude D620)
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Windows Media Player 10 worked for me
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

This animation is about two spheres, a girl sphere and a boy sphere,
who meet up on the dance floor.  They start off slowly, perhaps a
little shy, but then quickly get comfortable and start more elaborate
dance moves.  At the end they part company, leaving the floor the
way they came, wondering what could have been if only the song was
a little longer...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

This is my first venture into the world of Povray.  I've done a little
raytracing in the past with Art Of Illusion, but that was a few years
ago and even then, I only tried out a few things and left it.  Working
with Povray was a lot of fun and a great learning experience, but please
remember that this was my first Povray project.  :)

I knew that I wouldn't have time to learn the modeling language and
come up with super fancy dancers, so I started simple and used spheres,
one pink and one blue.  I then wrapped my head around the animation
process and the clock variable.  On paper, I drew out a storyboard of
what I thought I could accomplish in the time given.  Some things had
to be dropped, but for the most part, I think it turned out okay.

The animation is done in 320x240 at 30fps, raytraced with no jitter and
with anti-aliasing set to 0.2.  I used the free AviCreator to transform
the BMP files into an AVI file.  I then used the free version of TMPGEnc
to take the AVI and make an MPG out of it.  To make the poster, I just
opened one of the BMP files in MS Paint and saved it as a JPG.

I found the process to be quite enjoyable and I look forward to the next
topic to see what more I can learn.

I hope that you enjoy my first animation and thank you for viewing.