EMAIL: binhex@primenet.com
NAME: Chris Luckenbach
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: KPT Bryce 2.1
TOOLS USED: KPT Bryce 2.1, Rokakku-Daioh 5.1
RENDER TIME: 45 min. (approx.)
HARDWARE USED: Macintosh 8500/120
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:This image is an enhancement to a prior 'bot that I had created with Bryce 1.0 which was eaten by my friend's hard drive. I was oringinally going to do better posing and some additional modeling, but the deadline came up way too fast.DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:I used Bryce 2.1's awesome boolean rendering to do most of the modeling, i.e.: boreing out the guns, making the indentations in the knees and weapon-arm, making the hooves and head angular.I wasn't happy with the effect that bryce was giving me on such a small part of the model so I used Rokakku-Diaoh (awesome mac freeware) to model the fingertips and export them to bryce as a .dxf file.The mountian in the background is just a standard bryce mountian that I blew up and threw way into the background.The ground/mountian and sky textures are all standard bryce textures that I tweaked the settings a bit. The red plate metal texture is a red reflective metal with a bump map from one of bryce's preset textures: citylights. The coroded blue (sholders, knees) is also a metal with a bump of another procedural texture. The eyes are spheres streched out and have a blue texture of "light" which makes them have a soft, glowing look to them but doesn't tax the raytracing engine by calculating another light source. The blue hand is a variation of the red plate with lower reflection and bump. The white guns and horns have just a little reflection to them.