TITLE: Robot Dream
NAME: Kevin Lynn
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: kjlynn@netscape.net
TOPIC: Robot
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: robovide.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Sculpt 3D, Aladdin 4D, Pov-ray

TOOLS USED: 
    Sculpt 3D & Aladdin 4D (old Amiga tools, run under UAE), MainActor,
custom software

CREATION TIME: 
    about a week

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dual Celeron 333

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

The robot pops in his favorite music CD and dances in front of the mirror,
dreaming of being in the spotlight. 

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

Audio, if you have it

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

I used to do 3D modeling and animation on my venerable old Amiga, but it finally
died about a year ago.  RIP.

So I used Sculpt 3D and Aladdin 4D running under the UAE Amiga emulator to do
the object modeling.  I then converted the geometry to Pov-ray files using
custom software utilities.  Some of the shots were rendered by Pov-ray, some by
Aladdin 4D.

There are 5 shots in the animation.  I rendered each separately, then put them
together using MainActor.

The music is a small snippet by The Hybrids, copyright 1982, and is used by
permission.


