EMAIL: sinistar@iol.it NAME: Luca Pinciani TOPIC: Music COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Concert COUNTRY: Italy WEBPAGE: http://www.realillusions.net RENDERER USED: Blender internal TOOLS USED: Blender and Paint Shop Pro (to convert the image to JPEG format) RENDER TIME: about 7 hours HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1.80 GHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I wanted to represent one of the moments in which the music is protagonist. But the music can't be trasmitted by an image! My image represents a small concert, but to pay attention to the real protagonist ot the image (the music), I replaced each person (all the musicians and all the public) with one of the universal iconography of the music: the musical note. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The biggest problem I tackle, was about the creation of the atmosphere in the room. First of all, I used the Ambient Occlusion not too high (in fact, there is (intentionally) a sort of noise in the image). Furthermore, I set the three spots that illuminate the room as volumetric lights. Doing some tests, I also decided the right position and the right color of the three spots. I also decided to add a big mirror on the wall because I thought it was a good expedient to make appear the room bigger. At last, the notes that compose the pubblic of the concert, are simply copies (shallow links) of few types of notes. Using the technique of dupliverts was worst, in this case. For the notes, I used a low subsurf because they are a lot, and with an high subsurf the render will take to much time.