TITLE: Last Flight of The Red Baron

NAME: George Bredestege
COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: george@georgebredestege.com
WEBPAGE: www.georgebredestege.com

TOPIC: Pursuit/Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD
MPGFILE: p1gwb.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1g


TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino3d,Paintshop Pro,CMPEG


CREATION TIME: 
    Enough to drive my wife to the edge (a hundred hours I
estimate)


HARDWARE USED: 
    Gateway 233mhz Pentium 2


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

     Based on the true story of Manfred von Richtoffen aka "The Red Baron", who
remains the greatest
        Ace of all time, with 80 victories, using only the machine guns on his
aircraft. He was shot
        down by Canadian Ace Roy Brown (11 victories) of 209 Squadron in a
Sopwith Camel. The Baron was 
        simultaneously fired upon by Australian machine gunners on the ground,
who also claimed responsibility.
        The British (true warriors in the best sense) buried their enemy with
full military honors. 
     DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS
     CREATED:
     I am new to ray tracing and animation and have no formal computer training
(they didn't offer it in 1983 when 
        I graduated high school) so I had to read the help files and look
through the source files of previous 
        competitors to understand "how'd they do that?". Then I borrowed a
graphing calculator from my wife (fortunately
        for me she teaches high school mathematics) and learned about sine
waves. Every scene was trial and error and trying
        again and again. The only software I paid for was Paint Shop Pro 5 (PSP)
which I bought years ago. I modeled the aircraft
        with the trial version of Rhino. I used PSP to create the bitmaps for
the earth and the aircraft markings. Using CMPEG
        seemed to produce the best file in the smallest space, but I had to
really do some remembering, having not typed a line of 
        DOS since 1991! I think I got a lot out of very little as far as money
spent on software and equipment. I hope you
        like it!

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

     Windows Media Player works just fine 24fps


