EMAIL: ezekiel12@aol.com

NAME: Kenneth J. Schnardthorst

TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Rapunzel
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Raydream 3d
TOOLS USED: Rayflect Four Elements Terrain and Atmosphere generator extensions for Raydream.  Lview for titling.

RENDER TIME: 1 hour and 16 minutes.  Rendering resolution: 72 dpi  Rendered size: 576x792 pixels. 

HARDWARE USED: Packard Bell M415 w/pentium 166 MMX, 32 megs RAM.  VooDoo 5500 pci accelerator card w/ 64 megs RAM.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your long hair."  A lonely tower stands in a small clearing surrounded by tangled vines. The tower is made of polished marble on top of which is a small room with a roof of blue slate.  The standard of the tower's owner unfurls in the wind on the flagpole.  Who's really in the room at the top? Is it Rapunzel, or the witch?  And where is the prince?  His horse is nearby but, there is no sight of him.  And is the sun setting or rising?  I'll leave that up to your imagination.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: To begin this rendering I started with the terrain as this would dictate where all of the other objects would be placed.  The terrain was given a grass texture.  Next came the base of the tower.  This is a truncated cone with a hole through the center.  It was given a white marble texture.  The body of the tower is an elongated cylinder.  This was given a dark marble texture.  The room at the top was made using a freeform modeller.  It is a hollow polygonal block with an opening in one side.  This was given the same texture as the tower cylinder.  The doorway to the room was made the same way as the room itself and given the same texture as the base.  The flagpole is a basic cylinder with a sphere set atop.  Both were given a metallic texture.  The flag is a freeform plane with a geometric texture.  The hair braid was made with the freeform modeller this took some time as I had to figure out the correct sequence for the weave.  The texure for the hair is a shader I made myself using the shader editor.  The plants were also freeform objects.  They were given a texture that simulated climbing vines.  The horse is the last object.  The model of the horse is one I had in stock.  I haven't had much luck making either human or animal models.  This image has taken me several weeks to design with the numerous revisions I made.