EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore TOPIC: Toys COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Clown-a-round COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: none RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5 raytracer TOOLS USED: Raydream Studio 5, Micrografix Picture Publisher7, Premier 4.2, Avi2mpg1 ver 1.5 RENDER TIME: 24 hrs. HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: WINDOWS95 MEDIA PLAYER ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: I had more but I cut it short to fit in under 3 megabites. The beginning had the carousel coming up out of the ground. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:I began with a photo of my daughter which I took with the intent of converting it to a mesh via "4 elements" in Raydream. I then modified each face with Picture Publisher- working on a greyscale conversion of the photograph. I used 4 textures for the faces. One was a generic marble, two were bitmapped from photographs of mud and water, and the fourth was from "4 elements" earth textures. Then I duplicated the 4 faces and painted them in Picture Publisher, saving the tiffs to use as textures. The clown faces are cloaked in the beginning, then uncloaked as the natural faces are cloaked. The "4 elements" texture has a bump channel which makes one of the clowns look like he's returning to stone.