TITLE: Castle Of The Elements
NAME: Michael McGonigle
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: spookyguy_@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Stills topic... ELEMENTS
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: castlemm.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studios Max R 1.2

TOOLS USED: 
    Bryce 2.0, Rhino ( beta version ), Poser 2.0, 3D studios,
PLUGINS USED : genisis mini flare, starfield generator beta 5 , Max Matter
material libraries, super glow, frentic, stratus, electrolize 2.0, digital
forest beta. 

RENDER TIME: 
    45 mins 45 secs

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 100, 16 meg memory

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

All it really the image is really about is a hero trying to defend his castle
from some magical bad guys
( the elementals ). The Earth and water elemental are combining both powers
together to make the big watery/muddy glob thingy.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

THE BACKGROUND ( MOUNTAINS AND NIGHT )
I made the bakground by 
i) making a sphere with the moon's texture on it 
ii) made the stars by using a plugin that was executed through video post
iii)saved this as a bitmap
iii)made mountains and fog in bryce and used the above bitmap as background
THE FOREGROUND ( guys and castle etc )
I made the foreground by
i) used poser to make warrior + water chick + skeleton
ii) made earth guy in rhino by deforming spheres
iii) made earthy/watery globby thing in rhino by deforming a sphere
iv) made castle with simple geometric shapes ie. cylinders, cones, boxes etc
v) little torches around castle made with cylinders
vi) all fire ( on skeleton, torches, fire ball ) made with combustion
atmospheric effect
vii) the tree was made with a plugin
viii) the bright lights are actually lens flares ( the 2 bright green dots on
the mountains come from the lens flare )
ix) ground was created with a quad patch
x) path was created with a number of rectangular quad patches that are
perpendicular to eachother
xi) sword and shield was made with simple geometry
xii) warrior's armour is just his cheast enlarged with a metal texture
xiii) warriors skirt is just a rounded rectangular shaped loft copied many times
and placed around him
xiv) earth guy's eyes are simple geometry that has a glow applied to it through
video post
xv) most textures are mixtures with bumps ( mostly made by noise or a bitmap )
or bitmaps applied to the material or are from       the Max Matter material
library