EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore TOPIC:Unbelievable COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Terror After the Storm COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5 raytracer TOOLS USED:Rardream Studio 5, Micrografx Picture Publisher RENDER TIME: 1 hour HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A hurricane wrecks havoc on coastal town, but the nightmare is not over; in the light of a peaceful dawn, the lighthouse family awakens from their short, but much needed nap, to to find that the storm has disturbed a denizen of the deep ocean. It attacks the lighthouse believing it to be the cause of its pain and misery. The only defense that may repel the nefarious beast is fire! The keeper and his two sons use axes and hammers to break up crates and light a fire which now threatens both their home and the monster. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used my lighthouse, keepers house and dinghy from one of my previous entries. I created them all in Raydream. I created a new island and ocean using 4elements in Raydream. The camera is too close to see the ocean, but its there. I used freeform modeler to create the tent- acles and suckers. I used the meshmodeler to create the body. I used an organic texture for the octopus, but wasn't satisfied until I added some reflective properties to it. I used both a red and yellow light of limited strength to simulate fire. I used both the Raydream fire elemental and 4elements fire texture. The stairs are just cubes placed around the rock. The hardest part was getting all of the tentacles around the lighthouse without getting them stuck in anything other than sand. Even so I had to delete one arm, imagine it out of view bent under the poor creature- no wonder he's so angry!