EMAIL: codegrynder@yahoo.com
NAME: Bill Bobzien
TOPIC: The City
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Room 2019
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: Bryce 4
TOOLS USED:
RENDER TIME: 2 hrs 12 min 23 sec
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166, 96 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

View from a hotel room of high-rise buildings.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I started off using my standard procedure of modelling using simple placeholders to work out a 
composition. After creating more detailed models of several buildings, I realized that time was 
running out and scaled back my grandiose cityscape to the four buildings shown. My rendering 
time in tests was very high (10+ hours) due to the large number of reflective/transparent 
surfaces inside the room and on the buildings, plus the number of lights in the scene. I finally 
decided to render the buildings, then use the image from that rendering as a backdrop in the 
scene. This one-time 3-hour rendering cut my rendering time for the whole scene to around 
1.5 - 2 hours. I then concentrated on creating the furniture and other fixtures in the room, 
many of which can only be seen as reflections in the window. I still had a couple of things I 
wanted to change (add curtains, work on lighting, etc.), but the deadline drew nigh as it
always does.

I went through a great many compositions for this image (my original idea was to focus on a 
Poser figure looking out the window), and tried and discarded many different building designs. 
The buildings are combinations of my own imagination and actual buildings in the area where 
I live. Any resemblence to actual cities, living or dead, is purely coincidental.