Screening Room Disaster

Screening Room Disaster

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.

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.

Directed by:

Ian Bell (Prof)
    monster pose

Gladimir Baranoski (Prof)
    monster pose

Rick Leung (TA)
    modelled flat puppet
    convert student scripts and posed individual puppets

Selina Siu (TA)
    modelled owl and screening room, and positioned puppets
    created texture for movie screen

Other Credits:

Patrick Gilhuly for his help with Gimp.

last updated 5 March, 2001.