EMAIL: steve@idsmail.com
NAME: Steve Schaneville
TOPIC: Toys
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Jack
COUNTRY: USA

RENDERER USED: trueSpace 3.1

TOOLS USED: None

CREATION TIME: Modeling:  1 hour
               Animation: 30 minutes
               Rendering: 1 hour (183 frames)

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 266 w/ 64 Mb RAM


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS:

Well, my 90 MHz isn't fast enough, but the 266 made the animation look good (30 fps).


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

Just a jack being thrown against a garage door.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

I'm not looking for any points for this... basically I modeled a garage door and a jack.  I told trueSpace that the jack should have the properties of metal (properties include mass, air resistance, elasticity, and surface friction).  I gave the jack an initial velocity and rotation vector, and said "go".  Basically the computer did the whole animation, I only tweeked a little at the end (it bounced around for too long, very unrealistic).

I just bought this program a few weeks ago.  The only reason I submitted the animation is because I'm excited about having the program, and I wouldn't have been able to create this animation without it or a similar program (not to say it can't be done, I just don't have the ability).