TITLE: Cliff Hanger
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://users4.50megs.com/enphilistor/irtc.htm
TOPIC: Force of Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: cliff.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray version 3.5.

TOOLS USED: 
    Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper.

CREATION TIME: 
    Pretty much the whole quarter. Final rendering was done on the
15th
of October.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  Full color, 24 frames per second.

HARDWARE USED: 
    K6-2 @ 300MHz, 96 Megs of RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    Some scenes away from the Petrified Orchard Valley.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I typed out a bunch of scene code, rendered the frames, and slapped them
together
with an MPEG compiler, just like I always do.

I originally wanted the planet to be a black hole, but the tradeoff between
quality
and rendering speed would have leaned to heavily in favor of the latter; the
gas
giant renders more quickly, and seems less cliched.

I also wanted to have part of the Main Sequence blasted away, but modelling a
good-looking explosion was too troublesome within the time constraints.

This anim seems to use a lot more subtitles than usual.

If you have any questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave comments on
the
comments page (and be sure to put your e-mail address in the comments; sometimes
the
bot records the wrong address).

