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Email          nikki@evolve.co.uk
Name:              Nikki Gillett
Topic          Summer
Renderer used         POVray 2.2
Tools Used         POvsB version 0.99g
Render time         25 minutes
Hardware used         P90, 32mg ram, WinNT 3.5

Image Description:
A bee flying towards a flower.


Description of how this image was created:
The first thing I created was the flower. I manipulated a bezier 
patch & copied & rotated it to make the petals & added a squashed
sphere for the middle & added tiny dents for a more realistic 
effect. I gave all the objects colours & fiddled with them from there, 
I wanted the flower to be bright.
The bee itself was a big project. I started by looking at pictures/ photos
of bees so I could get the body shape/ position right. I used wood 
textures for the body. Then the legs followed. Again I used pictures to 
make sure they were all in the right position & were made using a 
conglomerate of spheres- each needing lots of manipulation to make sure 
each segment of leg was correctly proportioned & at the right angle. I 
gave the legs a colour & fiddled with roughness, specular, reflection & 
ambience to get grainy look to them. Once the legs were done I added 
the antennae (using the same techniques as for the legs). Then came the
wings. For a while I didn't know how I'd do them. I created a wing shape 
object in "Corel draw" & imported it & gave it 'clouds' texture & scaled 
it & stretched it to make the clouds appear blury so it looked like the 
bee was in flight.
For the sky, I just used a plane (which I rotated so the sky didn't 
appear flat) & scaled up the texture so there weren't too many clouds.