Email: michel@wunderworld.demon.nl
Name: Michel de Rooij
Topic: Unbelievable
Copyright: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright.
Title: Danse Macabre
Country: the Netherlands
Webpage: http://www.wunderworld.demon.nl
Renderer used: Bryce 4
Tools used: Rhino 3D, Poser3
Render Time: 1 hour
Hardware used: PII 400 Mhz 256 Mb RAM
Image description: On his way from work Mr B., a registered accountant for the firm Tedious, Tedious and Boring, stumbles on something so unbelievable that it will alter his excistence for good. (Noone believes him. He becoms socially isolated. Is fired from his job. His wife divorces him. And Mr B. ends up in the gutter)
Description of how this image was created: I used Rhino to make all the objects, apart from the wall and the figures. In Rhino I used rail revolve for all the objects, even the harmonica and the briefcase. Placing the harmonica into the hands of the skeleton was maybe the hardest part of it all.

Note for Bryce users: I tried to render this image with Volumetric World turned on, but it took more than 80(!!!) hours to render on a PII 233 Mhz and then it wasn't even finished (the last pass had still to be made, which would have taken another 40 hours or so). I learned from this that the best way to use Volumetric World is NOT<s>. But seriously... For a couple of lightbeams that come through cracks in walls or lighthouse lights it is fine (but still very slow). Do not use Volumetric world for open light sources if this lightsource lights up a great deal of the image. And if you do, keep in mind that you lower the lights intensity a bit because the image becomes lighter when rendered with V.W.