EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
NAME: John VanSickle
TOPIC: The End of...
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Passing of the Master
WEBPAGE:  http://users4.50megs.com/enphilistor/irtc.htm
COUNTRY:  US of A
RENDERER USED:  POV-Ray 3.5 for Windows.
TOOLS USED:  Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper, and the LionSnake modeler
HARDWARE USED:  Compaq Presario 2170US laptop (Celeron 2GHz, 128Meg RAM)
                Homebuilt Athlon XP 2400 (512Meg RAM)
                Homebuilt Athlon 900
CREATION TIME:  I got started on this project as soon as the topic was
announced.  Final rendering was complete on 11 January 2004.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  Full color, 24 frames per second.
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:  The Master of the robots decides that his time has come.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

The Master was done with my new subdivision surface modeler.  Both the suit and
the face were done this way.  The eyeballs themselves are textured spheres.  I
would have had the alien outside of the suit, but the modeler doesn't support
uv-mapping (yet) and without that it's too difficult to model an alien to the
level of realism I want.

I found a couple of bugs in the modeler while using it to make the alien.  I
also discovered a heap of features I want to add.

The rest of the animation was done with ordinary CSG.  I typed out a bunch of
scene code, rendered the frames, and slapped them together with an MPEG
compiler, just like I always do.

If you have any other questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave
comments on the comments page (and be sure to put your e-mail address in the
comments; sometimes the bot records the wrong address).