EMAIL: troy@troydolyniuk.com

NAME: Troy Dolyniuk

TOPIC: Dance

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: Having A Ball

COUNTRY: Canada

WEBPAGE: 

RENDERER USED: Povray 3.6.1c.icl8.win32

TOOLS USED: AviCreator, TMPGEnc, MS Paint

CREATION TIME: Rendered in 17m 32s

HARDWARE USED: Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz (Dell Latitude D620)

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Windows Media Player 10 worked for me

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:



This animation is about two spheres, a girl sphere and a boy sphere,

who meet up on the dance floor.  They start off slowly, perhaps a

little shy, but then quickly get comfortable and start more elaborate

dance moves.  At the end they part company, leaving the floor the

way they came, wondering what could have been if only the song was

a little longer...





DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:



This is my first venture into the world of Povray.  I've done a little

raytracing in the past with Art Of Illusion, but that was a few years

ago and even then, I only tried out a few things and left it.  Working

with Povray was a lot of fun and a great learning experience, but please

remember that this was my first Povray project.  :)



I knew that I wouldn't have time to learn the modeling language and

come up with super fancy dancers, so I started simple and used spheres,

one pink and one blue.  I then wrapped my head around the animation

process and the clock variable.  On paper, I drew out a storyboard of

what I thought I could accomplish in the time given.  Some things had

to be dropped, but for the most part, I think it turned out okay.



The animation is done in 320x240 at 30fps, raytraced with no jitter and

with anti-aliasing set to 0.2.  I used the free AviCreator to transform

the BMP files into an AVI file.  I then used the free version of TMPGEnc

to take the AVI and make an MPG out of it.  To make the poster, I just

opened one of the BMP files in MS Paint and saved it as a JPG.



I found the process to be quite enjoyable and I look forward to the next

topic to see what more I can learn.



I hope that you enjoy my first animation and thank you for viewing.

