TITLE: W. Mitty 2117

NAME: Todd Hoskins
COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: todda@cei.net
WEBPAGE: http//www.cei.net/~todda/home.html

TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: wmittyth.jpg
ZIPFILE: wmittyth.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 3D for the final render and for the two overlays used in
the final render.


TOOLS USED: 
    & DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED
Pixel 3D to create the hand-held computer terminal from a scanned in drawing. 
Also to edit dxfs imported from Spatch.  

Spatch to generate dxfs for the VR hood in main render, flying drones
(lego.jpg), landrover (lego.jpg), Lg Walker feet (lego.jpg), computer monitor
and tower in main render.  

Paint Shop Pro 4.14 to make the text overlays for the two computer terminals and
to make the final conversion to a jpg.  

Bryce 3D to render two scenes used for the video feed in the hand held terminal
(lego.jpg and lego1.jpg) and the overlay in the VR hood (final render)


RENDER TIME: 
    9 minutes


HARDWARE USED: 
    Self built AMD K6-2 333 w/64 mb SDRam, 8 mb AGP Video card
Speedstar A50, FIC VA-503+ 1 mb cache mainboard


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty revisited. My inspiration
for this came from two sources.  The first was a small Lego sculpture my 5 year
old son gave me as a gift.  He has yet to see Star Wars but his sculpture
inspired the Lg Walker in lego.jpg.  The second was from the competition and a
childhood favorite story.  Imagination is the last vestige of hope for a
henpecked husband, no matter the century.  I really enjoyed the revival of my
enjoyment of the story.  And I had a BLAST putting this together!