TITLE: Invisible fruit chopper
NAME: Paul Dunwoody
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: tharagor@3Dup.com
TOPIC: Slow motion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: sword.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3DS Max 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    My school's copy of 3DS Max, Video Mach

CREATION TIME: 
    Month or so working on it about 3 hours a week at school

HARDWARE USED: 
    My school's lab of Celeron 300 MHz

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

A sword is puled out of it's scabord by some invisible force and chops a fruit
in half.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

The trees are from 3Dup.com's (www.3Dup.com) database of free models, everything
else was modeled by me.  The sky is just a sphere with a map and some
self-ilumination applied to it.  The sun lense flare was done with the
video-post of 3DS Max 3.1.  The juice in the fruit particle system that has 500
meta particles.  All the reflections and refractions in the scene are raytraced
using 3DS Max's raytraced material property. The rendering was done on my
school's computers hooked togeather in a render farm.  The individual frames
were put togeather into an mpeg using an evaluation version of VideoMach
(www.gromada.com).

