Group Name
links to web page | Members-email | Synopsis | Comments |
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Snowflake
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| Amber |
| | John | fontaine
| | Dan | brooksda
| | Matt | birdm
| | Mark | geise
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The making of a snowflake inside of a cloud by a 'rube goldberg' type of mechanism. The snowflake exits the cloud via a toilet. Uses black and white 'toon shading.
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Procedural elements:
- toon shader in MEL (Matt, Dan)
- snowflake design, shattering effect, gear to snowflake (John)
- water elements: water gun particles, gravity, undulating water trough (Mark)
- collision detection in several places possible
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Sand Lighthouse
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| Jason |
| | Kyle | gillingh
| | Kyle | hawkky
| | Eddie | yeee
| | Nick | mckayn
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| A traveler struggles against a sand storm and impending darkness, lit only be a distant light source.
With darkness around, he finds the lighthouse - might have a crowd of people coming to it.
He scales it and replaces the bulb (at which point I think he should be burnt to a crisp - showing the futility of altruism).
The darkness is chased away.
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Procedural elements
- the dark cloud: particle emitters on keyframed figure, particle motion (Nick & Eddie)
- sandstorm: random velocity of particles, motion blur (Kyle & Kyle)
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Strobila
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| Ryan |
| | Neelima | karanam
| | Chang | zhangche
| | Thomas | loffing
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| A monopod office worker falls into his paperwork and finds himself snowboarding. Going to use NPR
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Procedural elements
- paper vortex (a la The Theory), particle motion, falling (Neelima)
- snow trail, spring leg for figure?, snow tail (Chang)
- snow particle effects (Tom)
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Team Awesome
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| Mary |
| | Ben | trube
| | Alan | deonga
| | Chris | hirgelt
| | Ross | milleros
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| Bells in church tower rings themselves during a storm; shut-up by thunder.
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Procedural elements
- note creation, swirling notes collecting into a vortex, dust (Chris & Ross)
- MIDI driven animation, crowd behavior of bells (Ben & Alan)
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