Welcome to the Wooden Monkey Hall of Fame, featuring the best of the student animations and ray-traced images from CSC 418/2504, the Intoduction to Graphics course at the Univesity of Toronto. Along with the winners from each term featured on this page, other high quality entries are included on individual course pages. Most of the animations and ray tracers were completed by undergraduates, with no graphics experience prior to the course. Many students build keyframe animation systems; others developed procedural systems, physical simulation systems, or entered keyframes by hand. Many animations will require at least the 5.1.1 version of the divx codec.

Fall 2003 (Karan Singh, Tina Nicholl)

First Place:

"Beeware" by Benjamin Mar Kuck and Tommy Zhu
animation

Second Place:

"Thirtsy Robot" by Timon Orawski and Ivan Krolo
animation
description

"Brothers" by Chris Klochek
animation
description

"Mages" by Ngai Hung Ng
animation
description

"Bouncing Tennis Balls" by Vasiljevic Vojislav
animation

animation
windows executable with sound
description

"Invading Robot" by Jonathan Sin Kwan Luk and Sheung-Huen So
animation
desciption

Third Place:

"The Lumberjack Underworld" by David James and Peter Mills

longer animation
animation
description

"Pacman Kingdom" by Filex Leung and Hainan Zhang
animation
description

"Fighters" by Edmund Chan and Lawrence Ko
animation
description

"Goes into Picture" by Michael Morgado and David Nguyen
animation
description

"Heart" by Samir Dobric
windows executable
description

Ray Tracer by Andrei Litvin
description
first image full size
second image full size
third image full size

REALLY COOL ANIMATION too late for the wooden monkey judging...

Slinky-Dinky by Adrian Ludwin

Visit here for honorable mentions from Fall 2003

Winter 2003 (Aaron Hertzmann, Tina Nicholl)

Grand Prize:

"To Love and Croak" by Nguyen Tran
animation
description

Grand Prize, Graduate:

Truck Simulation by Shahzad Malik
windows executable
description

Runner Up:

"February 1, 2003" by Justin Allport
animation
description

Runner Up, Graduate:

Ray Tracing by Pablo Sala
full size image
description

Second Place:

"Dancing Robot" by Jeremy Gillard
animation
description

Ray Tracing by Peter Varga and Jason Chan
first image full size
second image full size
description

Third Place:

"Duel" by Raymond Kwong and Victoria Park
animation
description

"Gundam" by Min Goo Lee and Victor Glazer
animation
description

Visit here for honorable mentions from Winter 2003

Fall 2002 (Karan Singh, Michael Neff)

Grand Prizes:

"The Penguin Short" by Brian Li and Lei Cai
animation

Ray Tracing by Neil Witcomb
first image full size
second image full size

Runners Up:

"Car Scene" by Alex Cheung and Henry Lim
animation

"Mashi Maro" by Alan Szeto and Mark Santos
animation

Graduate Winners:

Salsa Dancing by Alex Hertel and Phillip Hertel
windows executable

Third Place:

"Central NY" by Robert Dakowicz
animation

"Coke Can" by Daniel Zabawa
full size image

Visit here for honorable mentions from Fall 2002

Before the Monkey

Visit here to see student work from the ages before the Wooden Monkey competition.