TITLE: Danse Macabre
NAME: Michel de Rooij
COUNTRY: the Netherlands
EMAIL: michel@wunderworld.demon.nl
WEBPAGE: http://www.wunderworld.demon.nl
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright.
JPGFILE: macabre.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 4

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino 3D, Poser3

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 400 Mhz 256 Mb RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    On his way from work Mr B., a registered accountant for the
firm Tedious, Tedious and Boring, stumbles on something so unbelievable that it
will alter his excistence for good. (Noone believes him. He becoms socially
isolated. Is fired from his job. His wife divorces him. And Mr B. ends up in
the gutter)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    I used Rhino to make all the objects,
apart from the wall and the figures. In Rhino I used rail revolve for all the
objects, even the harmonica and the briefcase. Placing the harmonica into the
hands of the skeleton was maybe the hardest part of it all.

Note for Bryce users: I tried to render this image with Volumetric World turned
on, but it took more than 80(!!!) hours to render on a PII 233 Mhz and then it
wasn't even finished (the last pass had still to be made, which would have
taken another 40 hours or so). I learned from this that the best way to use
Volumetric World is NOT<s>. But seriously... For a couple of lightbeams that
come through cracks in walls or lighthouse lights it is fine (but still very
slow). Do not use Volumetric world for open light sources if this lightsource
lights up a great deal of the image. And if you do, keep in mind that you lower
the lights intensity a bit because the image becomes lighter when rendered with
V.W.