EMAIL: CJamesT@hotmail.com
NAME: Christopher James Taylor
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Son of a Squid
COUNTRY: England
WEBPAGE: http://welcome.to/CJamesT
RENDERER USED: Larry Gritz's Blue Moon Rendering Tools
TOOLS USED: Rhino (ed. Version), Corel photopaint 5
RENDER TIME: About 3 hours
HARDWARE USED: K6-2 350, 64mb ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
I new I shouldn't have thrown that toxic ooze down the toilet!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The whole thing was modelled in Rhino, Textures were created in Corel, it was rendered in BMRT
and colour correction was done in Corel.
Modelling: The toilet was made from lofted NURBS curves with a great deal of control point
editing and re-weighting to get it right. The left tentacle was created first using lofted curves
but this left me with 4 separate NURBS patches so I made the right one by using Rhino's "pipe" 
command and then moving control points to add creases in the skin. 
Texturing: The only texturing here was the tentacles, everything else is made with a Shader. The 
tentacle texture takes advantage of the UV mapping co-ordinates to allow a simple texture to 
follow the curves in the tentacle. The shaders are just the ones supplied with BMRT.
Rendering: Rendered with radiosity to see if it added anything to the image. It didn't. Oh well.

This was my first render with BMRT (well, first proper one anyway) and I think it has come out 
well, although I think this is due to the quality of the renderer and not my own limited skills. 
The image is a bit of a rush job which can be seen in the left tentacle, the interaction between 
the floor, the wall and the toilet and the lack of dirt on the toilet. I am going to work on this
a bit more and then I'll put it on my website which is currently under construction so I wouldn't
go there until about december.