TITLE: hopper
NAME: Lou Bruce
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lou_bruce@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: none at present
TOPIC: Pursuit Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: hopper.mpg
ZIPFILE: hopper.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender 2.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Blender 2.1, Amorphium for Text Modeling, SolidWorks 2000 for the
house model,
Microsoft Image Composer for textures, 
Blender 2.1 for Rendering, Audiorack32 for sound editing, DDClip Free for final
composition and soundtrack production and finally AVI2MPG1 for conversion from
AVIJPG to MPG.

CREATION TIME: 
    3 Months
Final Rendering: 8 to 12 Hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    233 MHz Pentium MMX

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

Hopper is suddenly aware of the menacing presence of a robot lawnmower. The
mower has decided to eliminate Hopper. At first Hopper tries to simply evade
the mower and finally he sees an escape.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Window Media Player


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

The core idea was suggested by a co-worker Damian Smith. I made five sketches of
the basic scenes and started modeling. I modeled the Grasshopper first then the
mower and the stick, I added a fence to my house and a new sky sphere. The
house began as a project in SolidWorks for a freind, he wanted a model of a
lake house he was considering building. I decided it would make a good backdrop
for this animation.

The zip file contains the complete animation without jpg textures.

For those of you interested in opening the Blender file, Blender is available as
a freeware download at www.blender.nl.




