EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
NAME: Peter Murray
TOPIC: Childhood
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Time to go home
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
COUNTRY: England
RENDERER USED: Poser 2.0
TOOLS USED: POV-Ray 3.0 Macintosh 68K, Adobe Photoshop
RENDER TIME: Not timed, 2 hours for background image
HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh Centris 650
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Two kids make their way home after a long summer's day.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I'd wondered about using Poser to create the image before, but thought it
wasn't allowed, as it isn't a raytracing renderer.  A question to the IRTC
mailing list cleared that up.
One of the ideas I'd had for this round was two kids making their way home,
tired after a long summer's day; this idea seemed the best-suited to Poser,
so I scaled the figures, added the hair that came with the program (I was
hoping to make new hair, but ran out of time) and used Sonya Roberts' POV
trees.inc to render a background image at 640x480, since I wasn't sure that
Poser could render 800x600.  It wouldn't accept that, so I had to halve the
size of the image (augh!  I could've rendered it in 30 minutes!) and use that
instead.  The Poser lights were positioned to line up with the main and infill
lights that I'd used for the POV image, and I then just seemed to spend ages
on the kids' positions.
And I never did make a Poser teddybear for one of the kids to carry :-( .