EMAIL: blenek@hotmail.com
NAME: Philippe Hovaguimian
TOPIC: Explosion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Wish Fullfilling Dream
COUNTRY: Switzerland
RENDERER USED: Maya 4.5
TOOLS USED: Adobe Premiere Pro, Maya Hardware render buffer
CREATION TIME: Two months
HARDWARE USED: 1.9 GHz Pentium IV 
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: try to be imaginative when you watch it!
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

This animation shows the daydream of a firework rocket.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

The whole animation has been created using Maya. In the first scene, the rockets are constructed with Subdiv shapes, the rain is made of stroke particles while the fire 
under the firework is made of sphere particles. The grass is made using the maya fur effect, and the moon is a sphere with glow.
The sea was easy to create, with the ocean effect. The planet's explosion is a serial of spherical and cylindrical 
emmissions of particles. As you can see, I used quite a lot of particles in this scene, and some of them are rendered with
the Maya Render Buffer separatly, and assembled with Premiere. 
I used Premiere for three other reasons:
-Luminance/Color Corrections
-The title
-Mpeg Export