TITLE: Rockn Jam Session
NAME: Marlo Steed
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: marlo.steed@uleth.ca
WEBPAGE: http://www.uleth.ca/edu/faculty/members/steed/Multimedia.htm
TOPIC: Music
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Lightwave
TOOLS USED: Modo for modeling
RENDER TIME: 1 hour (rendered it much larger)
HARDWARE USED: G5 Mac
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
I was not going for realism here at all but hoped to capture the mood of the music by depicting a rocking jam sesion - when musians just go for it and are really into their music.  I hope that was accomplished with the figures in dynamic stances, metalic relfective textures, and the colored volumetric lighting.  I considered adding abstract shapes coming out of their instruments but then thought it would make the image too busy.

Let me know what you think.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The figures and instruments were created from primitive shapes (tubes, boxes, or spheres).   All the  elements are original and created from scratch.  There are three spot lights with volumetric lighting giving the smoky affect and adding  color.  An overhead  area light added ambient light, highlights, and shadow.  The stage was created from a curve that  was extruded then beveled.  The tricky part was getting  the hands and fingers to look right - lots of tweaking.  The characters were then bent into dyanmic stances.