TITLE: Clown-a-round
NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Toys
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: rasclown.mpg
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

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. 

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    WINDOWS95 MEDIA PLAYER