Email:	LymphCycle@juno.com
Name:	Chris Plush
Topic:	Transformation
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Title:	Coming Real Soon
Country: U.S.A
Webpage: www.geocities.com/blengine (BE THERE!)

Renderer Used:	BLENDER
Tools Used:	Everything was made in BLENDER, except the movie
		poster, i used Paint Shop Pro.

Creation Time:	About 2 and a half weeks
Hardware Used:	Compaq Presario, old, dont know much about it.
Viewing Recommendations:
	none really, please read captions fast though, i didnt have 
	time to double over the animation to make more reading time.

Animation Description:
	It is an animation of atomic bombs finally changing our world
	into rubble. And also, the cockroach transforms into a conscious, walking, talking,
	more inteligent species due to the radiation and all.

Description of how this animation was made:
	Scene 1- just 3d text scrolling upward.
	Scene 2- the planes basic shape is an elipse extruded. the bombs
		were made from circles extruded and a hollow box for the
		bottom. The mechanical arm is also alot of circles extruded.
		The hands were profiles extruded.
	Scene 3- A plane as the ground. Bomb used from scene two. The explosion
		was BLENDER's particle effects in action. To brighten the scene 
		as the bomb explodes, i animated the energy of a lamp.
	Scene 4- The guys head was modeled by first making front and side profiles
		of his head, then adding outlines of the nose, eyesockets, and 
		mouth. Each 2d profile, i put into 3d space as to where they would
		be in reality. I then created the important facial contours such as
		his cheek bones and chin and neck. Then i skinned his entire head.
		
		His suit, feet, and hands were made the same way. The breifcase is
		a smooth box. The glasses were extruded circles and rings.
	Scene 5- I created a handful of buildings and duplicated them around to form
		a city, adding sidewalks, cars, parkinglots, and billboards too. The 
		shockwave is also BLENDER's particle system at work. I had to majorly
		cut down on the number of particles used to save render time and memory.
		As it is, that scene itself took about 32 hours to render, whew!
	Scene 6- A sphere with a land/water image map. The shockwave, particles, and the
		transformation following the shockwave is just an image map sliding over
		the already existing land/water image map.
	Scene 7- The roach scene was my favorite. The head was created using the same method
		as the man, drawing profiles first, as was the body too, drawing contours,
		then skinning. his antennae and legs were created by extruding circles.
		The area he was in was just a simple landscape with a rubble-like texture.
		The mousetrap was a cube, and yup, you guessed it, circles extruded!