EMAIL: tom@tomandlu.co.uk
NAME:  Tom Melly
TOPIC: Contrasts
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Boy and the Giants
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: http://www.tomandlu.co.uk/
RENDERER USED: MEGAPOV 3.1g.wmp.0.6a (Win95)
TOOLS USED: sPatch, Poser, Leveller, 3dWin
RENDER TIME: Parse 00:00:19, Render 06:07:10, Total 6:07:29
HARDWARE USED: P90 64mb (scene development), P3 733 128mb (rendering)

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A small boy stands among giant trees in the morning mist. I played with various ideas for this round, most of them revolving around the notion of contrasts of size, before finally (and rather late in the day) settling on this one.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The ground is a hf created in leveller, the near trees are patches created in sPatch, the further trees are simple cylinders. The boy was modelled and exported from Poser via 3dWin. The trees and boy are positioned with a trace macro. The media is a simple absorption/emission mix with an agate density.

I'm not entirely happy with this scene - I wasted a lot of time working on scattering media, and eventually had to give up due to the excessive rendering time. In retrospect, the time could have been better spent looking into isosurfaces for the trees and general textures. Oh well.