EMAIL: info@michaelscholz.de
NAME: Michael Scholz
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Chair
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: http://www.michaelscholz.de
RENDERER USED: 3DStudioMax2.5
TOOLS USED: 3DStudioMax2.5
RENDER TIME: 34 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Dual PII400, 256MB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

There is a story to be told. It's not about what we see, it's about
what we don't see. In our imagination we start piecing together the
clues. It is a riddle we cannot solve. A story unfolds in our head.
We are trapped in our imagination. Here is where the horror begins.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:


Geometry

The bunny is made of squashed and bent spheres, its ears are Nurbs.
The chair-parts are extruded or beveled splines and some cylinders.
The straps are flat rectangles lofted along curved splines. And the
blood is made out of spline-shapes beveled a bit with curved edges.

Texturing

Except for the bunny, which uses a scanned piece of carpet as bump,
all textures are procedural noise- and speckle-maps which sometimes
are combined within a blend-material in order to make things dirty.
There are only few colors: different shades of grey and a red tone.

Lighting

A spotlight from above (with a touch of blue) as main light source,
one or two small neutral grey omnis filling from the side and a few
redish omnis with short attenuation above the blood-pools to give a
radiosity effect (bouncing red light off the blood onto the chair).