EMAIL:         tarbault@nordnet.fr

NAME:         Thierry Arbault

TOPIC:         Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT:        I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:        Povmosdos3 beta
TOOLS USED:        Moray 2.0, paint shop pro
RENDER TIME:        Very long but I dont remenber precisely
HARDWARE USED:        DX4/100 16Mo
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

It seems to me that science fiction isn't only an affair of space and
spacecrafts (no more than holidays are to be restricted to cars and motorways
!)
What really counts in the end is the place you get to...

So I decided to create a picture of an alien world.
I know I haven't completely succeeded in creating something really new and
strange,
but it still looks quite alien to me, so, here it is...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Er, that's a bit complex...

I got the meshes of the girl and the dinos on two different CDs some months
ago:

        - The triceratops shape came from the povray CD rom (triceraw.zip,
courtesy
        of Viewpoint Animation Engineering).
        - The girl mesh came from an equivalent french compilation "atelier
d'ATON"
        from DPTOOL club (the mesh came initially from the japanese cyberbabes
        collection)

To build the gear on the animal's backs, I used CSG in Moray.

Same thing for the castle, to bad it's a misty day because its very detailed ;)

For the girl's clothing and shoes, I used moray's wonderful Bezier patches.

For the sand stretches near the camera, its also done with more Bezier sheets.

The mountains in the far side are a classic height field, using a "hand carved"
TGA
(I use a pen tablet to get exactly what I want).

When the basic model was done, including all the features above, I exported from
Moray
 to a POV text file in order to work on the atmosphere.

And voila.