In article <38AF337A.637C7D91@unforgettable.com>, 
inq### [at] unforgettablecom wrote:

> - The shading on the can flickers pretty badly. The frames were rendered
> in MegaPOV-Ray with radiosity turned on and left at the default
> settings; could patchy radiosity be the reason for the flickering? Would
> better radiosity settings eliminate the flicker?

The radiosity might be the cause, maybe increase the number of test rays 
shot...I am not very experienced with the parameters though.


> - To eliminate perspective distortion, the camera was backed off,
> rendering was limited to a small area around the can, and the frames
> were rendered at 1920 x 1440 to provide a "zoom" effect and get the can
> itself back up to the size I wanted it to be.

This seems like an awful lot of trouble...couldn't you just use an 
orthographic camera or a small angle value with the perspective camera?


> When I went back to crop the images in Photoshop, I found that in 
> each frame, the can seemed to be displaced a random amount (say, up 
> to about 10 px in each direction) even though the only variable being 
> altered was the amount of bending; I had to synch them all by hand 
> before I could create the animation. Anyone have any idea why this 
> might be?

It might be helpful to know how you are producing the can...torus 
section? Object Bender include? Some other method?

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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