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As in previous terms (S00 and F00), the puppets were first posed and positioned using the previewer, after which the entire scene is ray-traced by the ray tracer. Since several of the puppets either fly apart or contain primitives that might not be compatible with our raytracer, instead of putting them directly into the scene, they are texture-mapped onto the movie screen. The movie screen allows us to composite the texture mapped puppets in an interesting way. When Rick was preparing the students' puppet scripts, he discovered that many of the students were actually creating the puppets in a less-than-efficient-or-obvious manner. In fact, some of them were created in ways that we have explicitly warned against during our office hours. While Rick felt compelled to go back to these students' assignment marks and adjust them accordingly, somehow the rest of us managed to restrain him from doing so. The entire scene rendered in 41:59 minutes with hierachical bounding spheres. |
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The Cast: | ||
 Dough Boy by Hilory La |
 Ant by Andrew Kane |
 Doraemon by Alex Lau |
 Ant by Bojan Jovanovic |
 Smurf by Chris Keating |
 Robot by David Barsam |
 Puppetier by Eran Guendelman marionette swings with gravity. |
 Wrestler by Geoffrey Harrower alternate mesh model. |
 Spot by Justin Chan |
 Spider Tank by John Gerula |
 Ninja Turtle by Kevin Siddique head retracts. |
 Spiderman by Lawrence Ohab |
 Beaver by Mark Nieweglowski |
 Cat by Marco Pedrosa |
 Sumo Wrest.er by Petri Varsa |
 Alligator by Rafal Jaroszkiewicz |
 Popeye by Tiberiu Popa |
 Baby by William Yip keyframe animation system with baby crawling and karate kick animation. |
 George by Ryan Pump |
 Voodoo Doll by Michael Lam nail goes in and out of doll while eye bulges. |
