TITLE: Muppet Classic Theatre
NAME: Jim Knepley
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jknepley@nyx.net
TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: muppet.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Ray Dream Studio 5

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop, Poser 2

RENDER TIME: 
    7 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    IBM 6x86 PR200+, 64meg RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Walking down a city street on a cold night I see a place that I frequented as a
youth.  When Jim Henson died the Muppets would never be the same, and neither
would I.  Someday the theatre will re-open, and the magic will begin again.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

All of the modeling is original.  This scene was originally inspired by the
Styx:Paradise Theatre CD cover.  At first the image bore a stronger likeness to
the CD cover, but when I added Muppet images I figured that it shouldn't be so
run-down, so I cleaned it up a bit.

The statues are meshes created in Poser 2 and imported as DXF files.  Everything
else is done with stock effects in Ray Dream Studio 5.  Many of the textures
were custom created for this scene.

The Muppet posters were scanned and cropped in Photoshop from "Jim Henson's
Muppet Trading Cards" (c) 1993 CARDZ Distribution, Inc -- TM & (c) Jim Henson
Productions, Inc.  They are, from left to right:
        "Friends With No Faces" -- Dr. Bunsen "Garth" Honeydew
        "Spawned in the USA" -- Kermit Greensteen
        "Rowlf The Dog" -- Entertainer, singer, barker, dog.