TITLE: BottleShip
NAME: Benno Wagner
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: geckographics@web.de
WEBPAGE: www.gecko.darkgrafix.com
TOPIC: worlds within worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bship.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    HIGHLIGHT 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    blender

RENDER TIME: 
    70 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1GHZ



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Well, I was inspired to this image by a strange handtooled gift that can be
found in the german north-sea area so called "Buddelschiff" (schiff=ship,
buddel dialect =bottle). a "Buddelschiff" is a tiny bottle where a small ship
wich is much biger then the bottle-neck is build in (check out
www.buddelschiffe.de to see one!). The miracle is how the craftsman put the
ship into the bottle. it must be done by a ghost!!! And such a ship "locked up"
in a bottle, isn't this a small world within another one?!?


DESICRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I made all the things that can be seen on this image by myself with highlight.
One exception: the ghost-hands are made with blender. Construction with
highlight is not very comfortable but its a easy to use tool and used it before
I knew highlight. So most of the objects are quiet old, i got them from some of
my ancient projects. Because of that, I spend most of my time to develop the
textures and the scenery. The rendering process took realy a lot of time
because of all the mirrowing in the water and in the bottle and because of the
special effects. (While I am writing this text the computer raytraces and I had
to correct the render time 4times to a higher level;-). (While I am writing
this text, my website isn't online yet, but one is sure: The adress given at
the top will be my further internet adress when everything goes right!) (Now
after one hour of raytracing, I expected to see the finished image, but the
computer crashed down...)