graphics : animations
socsbook 95
As an introduction to the UTS school of computing science graduating students'
year-book for 1995, it's a send-up of the opening credits to Star Trek: Deep
Space 9, except that the camera swings away from the comet to show the
University of Technology, Sydney's Tower Building (a well-known Sydney
landmark), instead of the eponymous space station. Rather than a shuttle-craft,
a paper 'plane flies out to camera.
The bulk of the original modelling was done with Prisms, and then animation was
completed in Houdini, with some basic compositing in Ice. It was originally
rendered at 25 fps and full PAL resolution. The small resolution of the movie
below doesn't really do it justice, particularly the particle stream, but it
hopefully shows the idea...