EMAIL: stritech@iname.com NAME: Johan Stribeck TOPIC: Magic COPYRIGHT:I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT TITLE: Voodoo COUNTRY: Sweden WEBPAGE: http://hem.passagen.se/stritech RENDERER USED: 3DStudio Max Scanline renderer TOOLS USED: Paintshop pro RENDER TIME: 30 min HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166, 64Mb RAM, Matrox Millenium 2Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image is all about Knurhild, the priest of black magic and his former friend Mr Scaramanga. In these days, Knurhild hates Mr Scaramangas guts, since he stole Knurhilds beloved and their little baby-girl, Olivia. The priest has dusted his old knowledge of voodoo to try erase Mr Scaramanga from the face of the earth and try to win back his family. On the first try, Knurhild tried the common voodoo treatment, a doll, a couple of voodoo sticks. Nothing happend. On the second try, he lightened a fire and placed another doll in the middle of it. Nothing happened On the third try, he built a model of Mr Scaramangas riverhouse, placed another doll outside his house. Just to not be notised, he gave the doll a fishingdevice (I donīt know the aproperiate word in english). Then he placed a big bomb in the water behind the doll. He lightened it and ran out of the castle. Since the bomb hasnīt exploaded yet I donīt really know if he made it, but such qute story just got to have a happy ending. Donīt you think? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I spent july to get good ideas. Then I saw the picture in my mind, A castle with magician stuff and a fireplace. The magicians job was to make those magical training devices on the tv commercials, (Abīn back+, Abdominizer, Abbaflex) or what the damn thing was named. I think that it would need a magician to make them work. When the model was nearly finished I got this idea with voodoo. I was kinda bored with the old one so I through it away. (But I made a VRML 2.0 file of the training device, If you are intrested, I got it on my homepage.) I have modeled every vertex in the scene by my self, but the guilliotine are based on a model I downloaded from 3Dcafe ages ago, so I cannot give the original designer any credits. Mr Scaramanga himself by the way, was my first try ever to make something human-alike. But its still a doll. Excuse me for the bad english by the way. I used paintshop pro for jpg conversion and applying my tag. Have a nice day!!!! Best regards Johan Stribeck