TITLE: TNT
NAME: Mario Russo
COUNTRY: Brazil
EMAIL: mrussoart@yahoo.com
TOPIC: Explosion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: tnt_russ.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Mental Ray 3.4

TOOLS USED: 
    3dsmax, Photoshop, TMPGENC

CREATION TIME: 
    around 48 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    P4 2.8 1Gb RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

This animation was pretty much hard to finish in my spare time, but I'm glad I
could finish it :)

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

Quicktime player (no sound output needed)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

I started from an idea, of a soldier trying to explode a bridge pillar to stop
an truck but something went wrong. then I made a quick story board to make
everthing clearer and started on the scene setup and animating it like a crazy
and rendering every take I finished. I started editing even before all the
takes was finished or I could not finish the animation before the deadline.
Everything is polygons and the character is animated with bones and IK and FK.
With the whole animation rendered and edited I rendered it uncompressed again
and compressed with TMPGEnc


