Short: AW anim contest winner (1st 2500 frames) Author: mark@westford.ccur.com Uploader: mark westford ccur com Type: gfx/anim Architecture: generic This is approximately the first 2500 frames of my short film, "One Stormy Night with Fred Floaty". It is the tale of Fred, a small blow-up pool floaty toy, who has aspirations of escaping his dark and cramped home in a cut-rate travel agent window. It was done entirely in LightWave 2.0, took nearly 6 months to create and involved a solid 4 months of continuous rendering. The original motivation for the film was to show off some of the latest effects I had developed using LightWave which included a spectacular animated simulation of rain and a pretty darn good pool (IMHO). Render times on a 28MHz Zeus equipped 2000 averaged about 1 hour per frame (some took up to 2 hours and 40 min.) The film took first place in Amiga World's 1992 animation contest and is available from them (along with 18 other top entries) on their "Amigamations" tape. The animation in this file has been shrunk down from 24bit 752x480 to 188x120 in 4bit grayscale so that a good sized chunk of the film (a "teaser") could be shown without consuming gobs of memory. The original files consumed well over 2.5GB. When playing this animation, make sure to limit playback speed to 30fps. The deltas are small enough that most anim players will start out at 60fps. Hardware used: Commodore Amiga 2000, Progressive Peripherals Zeus accelerator, NewTek Video Toaster, Epson 300C scanner Software used: LightWave 3D 2.0 and Toaster Paint from NewTek, Deluxe Paint IV from Electronic Arts, ADPro and MorphPlus from ASDG, Cinemorph from GVP, Pixel 3D from Axiom Software. Concept and Story by Mark Thompson and Denise Huxta Thompson Modeling, Rendering, and Animation by Mark Thompson Original Music by Dennis Turner Sound Effects and Production by Dennis Turner Video Production by Mark Thompson and Greg Green Copyright 1992 Mark Thompson All rights reserved