EMAIL: timwilson@ozemail.com.au
NAME: Tim Wilson
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: Cityscape - "Just Add Water!"

COUNTRY: Australia

WEBPAGE: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~timwilson

RENDERER USED: Ray Dream Studio 5.0

TOOLS USED: 

Paint Shop Pro 5 (Textures, Image Resizing, Converting to JPEG)
Poser 3 (For the figure pose, and base for the figure model)

RENDER TIME: 3hours, 28 minutes (for the final render)

HARDWARE USED: Pentium-200MHZ, 32meg RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Tired of spending decades developing your city? Dealing with architechs and construction workers getting you down? 

Well all your problems are solved! Introducing ALL NEW, Cityscape - "Just Add Water!"
Just shake and bake and all your city building blues are blown away. 
The city of your dreams will soon become a reality with this amazing new product.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Well I figured everyone else would be doing alien worlds... The idea for this image actually comes from a line in the film Aliens. "It takes years... We call it a shake and bake colony."

Most of the objects in this image are simple free form objects. Some are primatives, although if i had to do this image again i would do them as free forms to give them blevels (found on most manufacture objects in the real world).

The person is a figure from Poser 3 that I modified rather heavily. I tryed to make it less of the perfect looking twenty year old of the poser figure. By pushing and pulling the mesh around the cheeks and adjusting the set of the eyes and mouth I think i got a more realistic looking 30-something person.

By this time my processor is feeling really lousy. The city itself could have looked better, by adding a few lights, but my computer just would not swing it. I had to reduce some of the reflections on the buildings, because they confusedthe image. Something I would work on if I had more time.

The hair is made using a technique i picked up off the net. You use three hair objects of differing size, colour, and transperancy. It gives a very nice effect.

Textures are mainly procedurals, although the textures for the box, the face, and the letters on the notice board were made in Paint Shop Pro. 

Once the image was finished, it was resized and converted to JPEG using PSP.