EMAIL: daffy-duck@worldnet.att.net
NAME: Matthew Welch
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Last Crayon
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.squaregear.net/raytrace
RENDERER USED: povray 3.5
TOOLS USED: GIMP
RENDER TIME: 3 minutes 52 seconds
HARDWARE USED: 1.2Ghz Athlon
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

When there's only one crayon left in the box, what is it? It's blue.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Libby Paletz, who used to be my girlfriend but is now my fiance, did
my art direction on this one. She had the idea and helped me with the
look of everything as I attempted to model it.

This whole scene is CSG. The tabletop is a simple plane and the box
is just a collection of boxes and cylinders.

The printed paper on the outside of the box is actually a separate
object from the cardboard inside. The texture on the outside is just
a simple image map that I drew by hand in GIMP. If you look closely
at the cardboard you'll see that it actually has a texture to it and
isn't a flat brown.

I'm pretty proud of the school-desktop-fake-wood texture that I came
up with. If you'd like to see the source for it, write to me.

Special thanks to the wonderful people at Crayola for making my
childhood so colorful.