TITLE: The FUN FLY
NAME: Benoit ROUSSELLE
COUNTRY: France (North close to Lille)
EMAIL: brousselle@atos-group.com
TOPIC: InnerWorking
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: thefunfl.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender

TOOLS USED: 
    mpeg_encode

CREATION TIME: 
    should be something like 20 hours rendering and much more
modelling texturing, lighting and Animating...

HARDWARE USED: 

        that's where it's getting fun : i modelled it on my old 486 DX2 under
Linux. 
        I would like to thanks the Blender team for such a nice software that
you can use on such a slow computer !
        I did not try to render it on my 486, you can imagine why !
        I rendered it on a Pentium III 450 Mhz under NT, which is a reasonnable
choice for rendering.


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

        I did this animation because i'm keen on small scale models. Those small
engines are real fun to use and make fly.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

             Any kind of software 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

             As i said it, i used Blender for the first time, and this freeware
is really powerfull.
        I did a little bit of pov, but i find it difficult to use for
animations. 
        This is also my first submission to the irtc and any kind of animation
contest.

        You may have noticed it, i had to cut some part of my animation, because
i did not do enough testing for mpeg convertion. In fact my animation was 2250
images at the beginning but the resulting video really too bad. so i had to
remove some parts.

        I also spent too much time on the beginning of the animation (the plane
flight) which is a little bit off-topic.Any way i had fun making it on my old
486 (but this is the LAST time :), particularly for doing the skeleton that
animates the inner of the engine.

        Have fun and take care!

