TITLE: Graduation Day NAME: Justin Janger COUNTRY: US EMAIL: jjanger@mail.cspp.edu WEBPAGE: None TOPIC: School COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: school.jpg ZIPFILE: school.zip RENDERER USED: POV 3.0 TOOLS USED: POVSB, wctpov, Trees 2.0, BumpyOrbs RENDER TIME: 1hr, 15min, 32 sec HARDWARE USED: P133 w 16 megs Ram and Win95 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Okay this is my second submission. I had forgotten about raytracing and gotten on with my life when the comments were finally out on the Glass competition. And to my shock, my image recieved some favoriable comments. Well, that re-lit the fire under my butt and I went to work on this. I at first thought that school of fish would be original. But after reading all the stuff on the mailing list, I'd say no. What we have here is a school of fish. Graduating. They're even wearing the little caps with tassels. One fish is giving a speech. A shark is prowling in the background for two reasons. First, to offer his congratulations in the only way he knows how. Second, cuz I though it would look cool and fill in the gap up in that part of the image. I think I'm getting better at this. And please, comments really really make my day. Just put anything down, even if you just type, "Anything. There, happy?" I'm a comments hound. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Okay, item by item: Seaweed: I used the wonderful and talented Sonya's tree utility to make the seaweed. First, I stripped the trees of the leaves, and we all know how much that hurts. Then I gave the bark a green texture and made it really really bumpy. Then I copied, rotated, translated and scaled three more and mixed them all up to get the effect I wanted. It worked. The Stage: The stage is just a bunch of Rectangles with a wood texture. The Curtain is a blue box all bumpy. The Podium: A rock made with John Beal's Bumpyorbs. The white texture was given so that it would stand out. The Shark: Actually, I got this file off the web. I thought that borrowing it in this case is okay because 1.) It is nothing more than a shadow. 2.) It is far from the central image. 3.) I'm admitting that it's borrowed, which is more than some people seem to feel is necessary. The Boulders: Same as the podium with a darker texture. The Fish: All put together with POV SB. Just squashed cones and some spheres. And yes they look goofy. Live with it. I can. The Caps: Again, POV SB. The end of the tassel is a cone so that it looks better. Lighting: I used a couple of spotlights and an area light and it worked out just like I'd hoped. Believe me, I played with the lighting a lot. Atmosphere: This was tricky. Without the atmosphere, the scene is way way way too clear. I had to play for a while until I could get the atmosphere to accomplish three things: 1.) Make it murky, like water. 2.) Make the spotlights show up. 3.) Make the shark a sillouette. Got it.