Hi,

For last Xmass, I created a small 5mn animated movie for my child (who 
was 3). It features a few letters walking on a page... Last month  I put 
it on a web page.

The soundtrack is in French (and there are no subtitles;).

My characters animation is kept very simple, background is also very 
simple, this has nothing to do with the very impressive image and 
animations I could have seen here.

But anyway, if you have a little child, if he understand French, and if 
moreover he's name is David, he might enjoy the show (mine did!).

It's available on the web at:
http://animation.altespace.org/

(the source code is somewhere on the same page if anybody is interested).

I would like to thanks very much the Povray team for their excellent 
tool and all the people that took time to post tutorials, code samples, 
answers to questions, and such. Without them, I wouldn't have been able 
to create this movie.

Thanks to you all.

	Yannick

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Yannick Patois <pat### [at] calvixorg> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For last Xmass, I created a small 5mn animated movie for my child (who
> was 3). It features a few letters walking on a page... Last month  I put
> it on a web page.
>
> The soundtrack is in French (and there are no subtitles;).
>
> My characters animation is kept very simple, background is also very
> simple, this has nothing to do with the very impressive image and
> animations I could have seen here.
>
> But anyway, if you have a little child, if he understand French, and if
> moreover he's name is David, he might enjoy the show (mine did!).
>
> It's available on the web at:
> http://animation.altespace.org/
>
> (the source code is somewhere on the same page if anybody is interested).
>
> I would like to thanks very much the Povray team for their excellent
> tool and all the people that took time to post tutorials, code samples,
> answers to questions, and such. Without them, I wouldn't have been able
> to create this movie.
>
> Thanks to you all.
>
>  Yannick


Hi Yannick,

Very nice indeed!  I did notice some continuity errors, but I doubt a child
would.   I downloaded the source code archive and finally found the tool to
unzip the BZ2 file format. Also, you have a file 'A.inc' and 'a.inc' which
is a bit annoying because Windows treats them as the same file.

I'll be looking at all the different action you have in the source code.

Thanks again.

Leef_me

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Hi,

Leef_me wrote:
> Yannick Patois <pat### [at] calvixorg> wrote:
>> For last Xmass, I created a small 5mn animated movie for my child (who
>> was 3). It features a few letters walking on a page... Last month  I put
>> it on a web page.
>> It's available on the web at:
>> http://animation.altespace.org/
>> (the source code is somewhere on the same page if anybody is interested).

> Very nice indeed!

Thanks :) That's my first animation.

> I did notice some continuity errors,

They are a few when the camera move at the enter of the "Parc", and also 
some of the balloons at the end appears from nowhere...

Did you saw any other?

> I downloaded the source code archive and finally found the tool to
> unzip the BZ2 file format.

$ apt-get install bzip2
(who said it's easier under Windows? ;)

> Also, you have a file 'A.inc' and 'a.inc' which
> is a bit annoying because Windows treats them as the same file.

Anyway they are not used, that's some rubbish left during development (I 
didn't clean up the code). All the used code for the letters is under 
letter.inc, including the one for 'a' and 'A'.

> I'll be looking at all the different action you have in the source code.

In clockstuff.inc, there are a lot of things that could have been much 
more simpler if I have been using the spline.mcr macro that I discovered 
after.


	Yannick

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