EMAIL: artur83@hotmail.com NAME: Artur Tchoukanov TOPIC: Toys & Games COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: ... until someone gets hurt. COUNTRY: Canada WEBPAGE: www.coroflot.com/artur83 RENDERER USED: 3DS v6 TOOLS USED: Photoshop for the name, Rhino3D v3 for modeling RENDER TIME: 10minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium4 HT 2.4Ghz 800FSB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Well for those who need another clue: "IT's all fun & games until someone gets hurt." This is what got the ball rolling, I pictrured a kid target-practicing in a barn or some place like that. And well misfire/bad aim... and he gets chased by the injured person. Drops the slingshot and the BBs. The blood drops indicate a gravitational drop (large drop) and another drop while the victim was moving(chasing) the kid. (CSI is the source of blood spatter knowledge :)) I was going for a sepia tone, but not completely, just the feeling. Focal Depth, blurring is meant to focus on the main area between the slingshot and the blood. Also hopefully it will give the viewer subtly get a 'tunel-vision' feeling... where everything else is not important, and thus giving a glimpse into the perspective of the victim, who's blinded with rage/vengance. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I was inspired by "Still with Bolts" by Jaime Vives Piqueres (2002) -check it out in the hall of fame or PovRay Wanting to do something similar, but with accordance with the theme, I figured that I would 1st create a wooden floorplane. Standard 3Ds max material with a bit of tweaking and adjusting. The slingshot and the soda Can (practice-target) were done in Rhino3D, very basic stuff. The BBs are just regular spheres with some deformations to make them look slightly used, not perfect, more photoreal. Rendered at 3000pixel wide, and then shrunk down in Photoshop. Hope you like it.