EMAIL: tlaville@club-internet.fr
NAME: Thierry Laville
TOPIC: Alien invasion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Vegetal revenge
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: http://perso.club-internet.fr/tlaville
RENDERER USED: 3DSMax2.0
TOOLS USED: AVI2MPG1
CREATION TIME: about 1 month
HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 233 MHz
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: ActiveMovie for Windows 95/NT

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
This animation shows a vegetal invasion of earth.
This invasion comes from space, and the final scene shows that earth is only one step in the invasion.

The plant takes all earth ressource and produce a giant Seed, which contains 3 germs of the plant.
In the final scene, the Seed explodes after having burned in atmosphere, throwing the 3 new germs in space, which will infect another planet...
The animation can be played in a loop as well, assuming that you imagine a different invaded planet each time !

The clip is a bit dark, perhaps you'll have to raise your screen luminosity.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
I used Vulcania MaxScript for generating the landscape.
The flare and glow filters were very useful for special effects.
The "asteroids" are just noised spheres.

There are three versions of this animation.
One for me (long and with best quality compression, but very large (25 Mb)!)
One for my Internet Site (http://perso.club-internet.fr/tlaville/download/vegetal.mpg)(same duration but less quality of compression)
The irtc version (same compression quality as internet version but some scenes were cut to meet the size constraints !)
In spite of the fact that i cannot imagine an animation without audio, the irtc version has no sound because of the size constraints).

Thanks to my wife Marie-Laure who gave me advices and support during the creating phase.
Thanks to my friend Choumi who gave me advices after everything was finished so that i had to redo a lot of work !
Thanks to my French->English dictionnary...