EMAIL: J.A.Bremer@twi.tudelft.nl NAME: Johan Bremer TOPIC: Contrast COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. The Maxx TM & (c) by Sam Keith TITLE: The Maxx COUNTRY: The Netherlands WEBPAGE: http://come.to/zenial RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g TOOLS USED: sPatch 1.5 RENDER TIME: 2 min 54 sec HARDWARE USED: PIII 450 Mhz w. 256 Mb memory IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It took me some time to think of an image that fitted the topic 'Contrast'. I chose a scene from my favourite cartoon "The Maxx", where Julie holds Maxx for one last time before she went away. I like the contrast between the big purple Maxx and the small fragile Julie, and Maxx is some kind of contrast himself because only in his fantasy world he is some kind of super hero, where in reality he's just big and purple. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: In the weeks I spent creating this image I developed an intense love/hate relationship with the sPatch program. I need the program to construct all the 1859 bicubic patches used in the image, but I could die happily if I never have to use the program again... I didn't think it was that difficult to create a human character. I didn't use Poser or anything for it, I just built them from scratch with patches. And especially the faces and hands were very difficult. I'm still not very content with the result, it still looks way too simple and not atmospheric enough, not enough like the comics. But it'll have to do...