EMAIL: irtc_mail@yahoo.co.uk
NAME: Richard Webster
TOPIC: Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Warren
COUNTRY: England
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED: Poser 3, 3DS2POV, TMPGEnc
RENDER TIME: 30 hours
HARDWARE USED: AMD Duron 1.1GHz 1GB RAM


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

  This owes its existence to a free copy of Poser 3 from a
  magazine cover CD.

  A hedge maze seemed like a good setting because all you
  see are hedges, so once you have a hedge model most of the
  modelling is done. Having a hopping-rabbit conveniently
  avoids the leg movment that would be needed for other
  traditional hedge animals.

  Violent trimming is the only way to quickly win a battle
  with a hedge, so the appearance of some sort of power
  gardening tool was essential.

  What does the ending mean? I wanted a quick ending which
  avoided a repeat of the coming round and standing up
  sequence, so this time round it was the rabbit's turn to
  escape.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
 
 The figure is the Poser 3 Casual Man, included in the
 POV-Ray scene files using 3DS2POV written by Steve Anger
 and Jeff Bowermaster.

 The animation of the figure in most scenes is done
 pose-to-pose with Poser's keyframe animation system. The
 running and falling motion is done by a routine which
 takes run cycles developed in previous IRTC entries and
 writes them out as bvh motion capture files which can be
 imported into Poser.

 The rabbit, hedges, hedge clippings and the cliff-face are
 all isosurfaces.

 All frames were rendered at 320x240 with anti-aliasing and
 TMPGEnc was used to make the mpg.