EMAIL: cdmagazine@uol.com.br
NAME: Douglas G. Hummel
TOPIC: The end of...
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Last Red Ball
COUNTRY: Brazil
WEBPAGE: http://www.creative-online/redball

RENDERER USED:  3DS Max 6

TOOLS USED:  3DS MAX 6 (modeling, animation and rendering), Goldwave 4.26 (music and sound editing), Adobe Premiere 6.5 (video editing and MPEG encode) and my brain.

CREATION TIME:  About 40 hours

HARDWARE USED: IBM-PC with AMD Duron, 1000 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, GeForce MX 200 Video Card whith 32 Mb 

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: I Used Windows Media Player without problems. See in Full screen if possible.

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

The history is about a red ball who lives in a gray cubes world. The ball thinks that is alone and takes a walk between the gray cubes until it has a surprise that can finish with its joy. See the movie...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

Does not have very what to speak about modeling of this movie. I begin from simplicity idea giving life to the simple objects as a ball, for example. The great challenge of this movie is show how to give expression in inanimate objects that dont have faces, arms or legs.

The whole movie shows only one environment, therefore I created a standard scene that had all elements that would be used in this movie. After this, I animated each camera take and saved the individual file. After this, each scene was rendered as avi video, and then edited in Adobe Premiere.

I created the major part of sound effects and I used the Goldwave to record and edit the wave files. These had been added to the movie tracks in Adobe Premiere, and then exported as MPEG file.

That is!! Have fun :)