TITLE: The Icon Wars
NAME: Matt Giwer
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jull43@tampabay.rr.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.giwersworld.org/artiv/ & artii/ & artiii/
TOPIC: escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: iconwars.mpg
ZIPFILE: iconwars.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1g and 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    gimp, mpeg_encode
RENDER TIME:        

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1800XP, 256M RAM, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
         Celeron 400, 64M, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
         PII 333, 128M, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
VIEWING:        mplayer and quicktime work, windows media player some
         versions have trouble, some will not work at all some just
         do not give the correct playing time.

GENERAL INFO:         http://www.giwersworld.org/artiv/mpeg.phtml has generic
         comments on size limited animations. 

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

        Escaping from many things and situations using unexpected means. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

        How to make an animation with things you can find laying around your
computer. 

        Note: Tux wallpaper available at
http://www.giwersworld.org/computers/linux/wall.phtml in three sizes. I have
dozens of subjects and 60 megs of material. This has remained the most
popular for years.

        All icons are free to use under the GNU Public License. 

        The bug is the same image with different texturing as I used for the
Halloween special a few years ago. It was animated at the time and there
were a few demo anims on the povray newsgroup. This is the first time I have
found an excuse to throw him into an animation. The model is in the zip
file.

        This is another execise in doing standard hollywood type scenes with
povray. 8000 extras clashed in the battle scene. I do want credit for the
first humorous takeoff on Thunderdome with ThunderClone. One man enter, four
thousand men leave.

===

        To the children, a reminder.

<quote>
  Etiquette

   This describes the intentions of the competition and what we hope to
   gain from it.

    c. The competition is not about winning. You do not have to be a
       professional, or even any good! 
</quote>

        I assure everyone, I am no damn good.

