TITLE: Pacifier NAME: Andre Mecteau COUNTRY: Quebec, Canada EMAIL: ultramec@videotron.ca WEBPAGE: None TOPIC: Childhood COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: pacifier.jpg RENDERER USED: 3ds TOOLS USED: L-view pro: only for signature and jpeg conversion. RENDER TIME: 0hrs 3min. 27sec. HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 - 16M RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Recuperate a well-known object for the first time of his life, baby seek and find; this was an idea from another friend of mine (Christian Gauthier); he asked me on the phone what was the topic at this time. He also wanted to know what I was working on. I told him that I did try severals stuffs, but nothing turned me on. He told me to draw just a big pacifier, to see what kind of impact this object will have on a screen; I started to laugh and this finally put my imagination to move foward. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used three spotlights to give this silky ambiance. Two bright yellowish spots, and a darker blue one. Without creating too much details, I wanted to give the impression of specific view of a human being at this primary scale of time. The baby face appears in reflection on the rubber, to signal the proximity of the child. A mapped image was used to create this reflection.