TITLE: Grace and Greed NAME: Chris Tackett COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: cmtack@prodigy.net WEBPAGE: pages.prodigy.net/cmtack TOPIC: WORSHIP COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ctgrace2.jpg RENDERER USED: Ray DreamStudio 5.5 TOOLS USED: Bryce, Ray Dream Studio 5.5, Photoshop 6.0 RENDER TIME: 15 min. HARDWARE USED: Pentium III 500Mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Two beds with one night stand in the middle. On it are the items belonging to both. One worships a god while the other worships something else. And you are not sure if the husband or the wife is the religious one. This couple is separated by their own ideals. I created this image because this topic reminded me of what my ideals used to be and what they were becoming. I didn't create this image to convey any specific feeling to the viewer, but to perhaps broaden their perspective and understanding of their own beliefs and look within themselves to realize what's really important to them. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Almost everything was modeled in Ray Dream with the exception of the drawer handles. Those were done as terrains in Bryce then imported to Ray Dream. Most items were modeled using the freeform spline modeler. The harded part was th lampshade. How to get the scalloped edge of the lampshade while keeping the edge smooth. I started with a sphere and cut away at it with a series of boolean operations to get it just right. Then the metal frame of the lampshade was a bit tricky as well. I had to do a series of duplications and rotations of a thin, semi-complete torus shape to fit the scalloped shape of the lamp. Smoke was created with Ray Dream's built in fog generator, however it lacks a bit of definition. Next time I create smoke I will perhaps try a transparent plane and map it on that. Most of the textures I found on the internet. A few textures were also procedural textures such as the Bible bump texture and the Ferrari picture frame.