EMAIL: fanda@sco.mflor.mx
NAME: Fernando de Anda
AGE: 20
TOPIC: Alien Invasion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: After Her Soul
COUNTRY: Mexico
WEBPAGE: N/A
RENDERER USED: Lightwave 5.5
RENDER TIME: about 60 hrs or 70 hours

TOOLS USED: For image maps: Presto Image Folio. For modeling: Lightwave Modeler and Tree Fact. 
Then AVI2MPG1 and Camel's MPEG Join

CREATION TIME: I donīt know, It might be about four or five months; I started before I knew the topic. 
HARDWARE USED: 350 MHz Pentium II 
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Microsoft multimedia player works well

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

They were in a car, they have an accident, she felt in comma, and he decided to make a brain invasion
after her soul, this animation will have a sequel...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

First of all, some of the models were created with bump maps, that I draw before, and then scanned
them, as also the texture maps in the boy, the girl and  the buildings of the bizarre world of 
her mind. The trees were created with Tree Fact.
Because of the time, I downloaded a lot of cars in 3ds format, so I converted to .lwo and I re-scaled,
edited, and re-texturized them.
A very huge job was the creation of the main car, I modeled it from basic forms,  metamorfed it
using some parts of the downloaded cars, and creating other ones, It was created in 4 days.
The Viper?, I donīt know who was the creator of such excellent job, but it wasnīt perfect at all;
the front lights's insides were missing, so I took a pair of magazzines and reproduced that 
difficult job, I hope you like how it looks.
About the mirror of the main car... It was edited from the Viper ones, I measured a pair of real 
mirrors so that I could put the real convexity on it (It is a milimetter of each 20 cm). Hope
it looks real. Please re-read the message in the mirror... JeJe
The crash efect was given with a lot of tricks; first of all, I morphed the Viper like I think 
it would be, then I put semitransparent objects for the smoke; there were to hard to render, and
finaly some particles (There are really points; there doesn't interact with objects or gravity...
That options are from another plug-in)
I amazed myself with these crash, I hope you too.
The hospital scene  was a real challenge; after creating the room, I created a complete model of
the guy that could be completely animated. The expresion was created with morphing, the guy has a 
lot of bones, and I mean a lot. The serum was blured and put it down with compositing.
Then I created the lab, I rendered bluring it with a technique of my
own; you have the normal rendered image, then you turn all the surfaces black and you put
white fog at the focal distance, then you blur the normal image, and use the BW for compose the
normal with the blur, and when I finished, A VIRUS INVADE MY COMPUTER, so I lost it; I rescued
only the rendered images; the astonishing model is history. Because of that I couldn't finish 
this animation, but I hope I could bring to you the next part.