TITLE: sword
NAME: Calvin Ashmore
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: coa@andrew.cmu.edu
WEBPAGE: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~coa/
TOPIC: Warfare
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sword.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV .7

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, Photoshop (file conversion)

RENDER TIME: 
    About 3 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 850, 128RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It's masters gone
 the blade is singed
Waiting for battle,
 for blood it sings
Storms beckon
 lightning cracks
One can see the ghosts in glass
Ribbons red, riding rivers
Through your veins the blood shivers

My concept is a war room temporarily empty. A precious mystical sword lies on a
table waiting for battle. Though as the case tends to be, as magic is a fickle
force, the sword has plans of its own.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I did all the modelling for this with Moray, because I'm a wuss.

I used MegaPOV for the render because I wanted some blurred reflections and
negative lights in various places. The strongest point of this I believe is the
cloth and ribbons. I attempted to use as many symbols suggestive of fighting
and bloodshed without actually rendering it outright.

This turned out to be a very nice looking room in its entirety, and this image
doesn't quite give the whole space justice, though it was necessary to get a
reasonable ammount of detail.

Incedentally, this does happen to be my first submission to the IRTC, though
I've been a raytracer for a quite a time.