TITLE: drago
NAME: Lou Bruce
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lou_bruce@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: none at present
TOPIC: Life
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: drago1.mpg
ZIPFILE: drago1.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender 1.73

TOOLS USED: 
    Blender 1.73, Amorphium for Text Modeling,
Microsoft Image Composer for textures, 
Blender 1.73 for Rendering, Audiorack32 for sound editing, DDClip Free for final
composition and soundtrack production and finally AVI2MPG1 for conversion from
raw AVI to MPG.

CREATION TIME: 
    2 Months
Final Rendering: 3.5 to 4 Hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    233 MHz Pentium MMX

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


The opening scene is a soothing underwater glide to the somewhat violent birth
of a sea dragon. His first order of business is of course finding food. Then he
meets with one of the undersea worlds most aggressive predators. Too bad the
predator doesn't realize what kind of defenses a dragon has.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Window Media Player

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I began modeling the shark before I had a story in mind. The dragon has been one
of my goals every since I started 3D, about a year ago. My first two attempts
were disappointing. I'm pleased with the way Drago turned out and I will
probably develope him further.
After the modeling of the two main characters I had a simple story in mind and
started animating. Then I needed some scenery thus the barrel, drum, seaplants,
schools of fish and the "Nina" ship. The sound track is original recordings of
bubbling water, me on guitar and my voice all sounds have been modified. Some
have reverb or echo, some slowed down, some reversed. The soundtrack was a lot
of fun. Our two dogs thought I had really flipped making all those loud strange
sounds.
The Archive file contains the Blender file DRAGOTITLE.blend which is the title
shot only.
For those of you interested in opening the Blender file, Blender is available as
a freeware download at www.blender.nl.




