TITLE: Memories
NAME: Gerald P. Singelmann
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: gsingelm@t-online.de
TOPIC: Transformation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: memories.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Raydream Studio 5.02

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop, Aldus TextureMaker, Adobe Premiere

CREATION TIME: 
    zillions of hours (the zoom onto the baby alone took 60 hrs.
complicated shadows there)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh G4

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

I just hope it is clear what this has got to do with "transformation". just like
last time i created footage to last for over 2 minutes: i have to start working
on shorter scripts ;-) if this movie seems somewhat hurried: it is hard to get
these under 5MB without compromising to much on quality

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

As this has been created on the Mac it might seem dark on Windows-machines. If
so, please tweek your brightness...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

-all the movements of the characters use the bonebender extension to raydream.
not really a brilliant bones-system but there you are.
-a few of the wood-textures were created in aldus texturemaker. amazing tool but
since aldus sold only a few it was dropped. i recently found it on an
archive-disk :-)
-i always wanted to build a scene where something is written. i found no really
elegant way in raydream to do this, but the result is ok, isn't it?
-in the scene where the two bears meet on the hill i used the furrific extension
to create grass on the hill. looked good but was not necessary for the story.
cutting room floor material :-(
-did you notice the moving curtains in the baby-scene? one of those nice effects
that you hardly notice in the finished film
-i like the lighting in some scenes (if i might say so myself). a very, very
good book on this topic is "lighting & rendering" by jeremy birn. i learned a
lot reading this. (and still do ;-)

good luck everyone

