NAME: Chris Want

COUNTRY: Canada

EMAIL: chiahos@yahoo.com

WEBPAGE: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/hosblender

COPYRIGHT: Copyright 2001 Chris Want

AUDIO FILE: 2002-1-Jan.wav

TITLE: "Waste Not, Want Not"

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 3 850 Mhz, Debian GNU/Linux (Woody)

SOFTWARE USED: Blender, modrify (ImageMagick), Magpie, Premiere, TMPGenc

CREATION TIME: 25-30 hours (I'm a slow worker)

RENDER TIME: 6 hours

VIEWING  RECOMMENDATIONS: View with any Mpeg-1 viewer

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This is a character I made a while ago for another
project -- this contest has been an excellent motivation to finish his
rigging and phonemes. I thought it would be funny if he decided to
take advantage of the situation he was in and eat the dead parrot.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
Mapping phonemes was the first task. I then started animating
various parts of his body one by one in passes, from the larger
central body parts outward. This was followed by a whole lot of 
tweaking. I must confess that this probably isn't the most 
efficient way to work but rigorous planning isn't my forte 
and this suits my way of thinking.

Source file can be found at: 
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/blender/10secs/2002-01-Jan/2002-01.blend.zip