TITLE: Young Surfer NAME: Guitta Bertaud COUNTRY: Luxembourg EMAIL: guilly@pt.lu WEBPAGE: http://start.at/arte TOPIC: The sea COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION JPGFILE: gbsurfer.jpg ZIPFILE: gbsurfer.zip RENDERER USED: Vue d'Espirit 3 TOOLS USED: Poser 3 for the surfer CorelPhotoPaint 6 to create the grayscale filters for the water splashes I used in Vue d'Esprit and to convert the final image into a jpg RENDER TIME: 4 hours 17 minutes in Ultra mode HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 300 128 MB Ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A young surfer in his water element. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This "sea picture" does not contain any water material. At the first step I was just playing around in Vue d'Esprit to see what kind of effects I could get with clouds, snow flakes, light... After a while I thought it looks like stormy weather on the sea and added some water splashes and terrains -created in Vue d'Esprit- all mapped with cloud, filtered light beam or snow flake material. At least I wanted to add a surfer and went on the internet to search some photos to find a correct pose for him. I reproduced it on a Poser figure and added it to my pic. I added 1 point light (the other light comes from the sun). The image looks a little like a painting. This natural blurred effect is only due for a small part to the camera settings (2% blur at focus 110), but mostly to the fact that the cam is placed inside a cloud sphere and has to "reach" the surfer -placed outside the sphere- through a filter in front of the photo lens, several terrains and splashes, all mapped as described. The ground was mapped with a mirror material and inclined a special way behind the camera, so that the reflections added a lot trouble effects. The most difficult was for me to place all the objects and the figure in a right way in relation to the "outside" atmosphere. That's what took most of the time I spent on this scene. The surf board comes from CorelDream3D. The lens filter is originally a filter to make caustic effects and were created by Jean-Ren_ Livenais (thanks !). P.S. The full source file of this image is too heavy in MB, also I join the original basic file how it came out before I added the surfer and some more splashes.