EMAIL             : ptys@gammanet.com.pl
NAME              : Piotr Plys
TOPIC             : Childhood
COPYRIGHT         : I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright.
TITLE             : Mom!
COUNTRY           : Poland
WEBPAGE           : --
RENDERER USED     : Povray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED        : Rhino 1.0 beta (preparing the objects)
                    LParser 1.97 (creating the fern)
                    Moray 2.5 for DOS (composing the scene)
                    Photoshop 4.0 (preparing image maps)
                    FreeHand 5.0 (preparing image maps)
                    Image Alchemy PS (converting the final image)
RENDER TIME       : 10h 27m 32s
HARDWARE USED     : PC Pentium 75MHz, 16MB memory
IMAGE DESCRIPTION : This was intended to be an image for those who had
                    sibling to bring back the childhood they spent together:
                    the playroom with toys scattered all around, broken
                    cars, books that were never read lying all around and
                    most of all the experiments made on puppets and dolls.
                    I didn't want to make a sentimental picture with lots
                    of fluffy toys which was my first but too obvious
                    idea of presenting the childhood. I wanted to picture
                    a child's day: the wicked boy tormenting the poor toy
                    and the girl with "fluffy bunny feet" calling "Mom! He's
                    done it again!". This is the childhood I remember and
                    this is probably what brings the sweetest memories to
                    everybody's heart.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
   Nearly all the objects were created in Rhino (boy, girl, teddy bear ...)
and then exported to Moray UDO as triangle meshes. I had to learn LParser
a bit since I wanted to have a plant in the room. I think I have created
quite a convincing fern with it. Smaller objects have been created as
standalone files, combined together in one Moray scene. All the textures have
been created in Moray, all the image maps have been created in Photoshop, but
some in FreeHand, then exported to Adobe Illustrator format and rasterized in
Photoshop (the wallpaper for example).

There are two lights in the scene. The first is an ordinary pointlight which
simulates the sun coming through the window, the second is an area light which
gives some softness to the scene. The caption "I love Mary" is an image map
with alpha channel added. The caption "Metallica" on the boy's T-shirt and the
flower pattern on the girl's dress are image maps projected onto the objects.
The torn poster is composed of two planes, each one having its own image map
with alpha channel and placed very close to the wall. The poster have been
taken from the Disney's HTML page (and is surely their property) but was
retouched and slighly altered to obtain the proper effect. I wanted a
"classic" poster (not a "Beauty and the Beast" or "Toy Story" which didn't
seem as widely known as "Winnie the Pooh") -- I thought of "Winnie" and the
beautiful Ernest Shepard's illustrations but due to the lack of a scanner I
have used what I found in the internet.

PS. Sources are available on request (6.0MB ZIP, 6.1MB ARJ)