EMAIL: dlauer@optonline.net
NAME: Dan Lauer
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Vampire's Nightmare
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
WEBPAGE: None
RENDERER USED: POVray for Windows 3.1
TOOLS USED: Moray for Windows3.1, sPatch v1.5 by Mike Clifton, BlobMan v3.5 by Peter Houston
RENDER TIME: 27 min. 28 Sec. for the final render.
HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 366Mhz, 128Meg
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Since this is my first submission to the IRTC, I knew that I would have a
hard time designing really great monsters.  So I thought I would turn it around, and try to
come up with something that would be a real Horror to a monster.  So I figured the that, 
Sunbathing on a Caribean beach, would be dream to most humans, but a nightmare for a 
vampire.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
POVray to create the beach heightfield.
BlobMan Studio and POVray to create and pose the Vampires
sPatch to create the vampires Cape.
Moray to assemble both the beach and the crypt the scenes.
Getting the Dream cloud to look close to right took hours.
I wish I had had more time to get to add a lot more detail like scenery outside of the 
crypt, a palm tree, a rum drink, other people on the beach, etc. Oh, well.