TITLE: Sacrilicious
NAME: Jeremy Wazny
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: grydlck@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jrwsacri.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio Max R.25

TOOLS USED: 
    3DSMax2.5, The GIMP

RENDER TIME: 
    approx 30 mins

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 366, 128mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A young woman is petrified at the prospect of being sacrificed to some random,
non-mainstream deity.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The only idea that I had in mind when I started this image was that of a 
terrified person confronted with an horrific situation. I started by
creating a NURBS model of the person's head. Up until about a week before 
submission, the image was to include the whole front of the face, in profile,
but I gave up on some of the details and decided to just focus on the lower
part
of the face; particularly the gaping mouth. This is partly because I find
properly shaped eye sockets pretty hard to get right.
Then I started to create the bonfire, in order to give me some idea as to where
the scene was heading. The trees were the next logical step in the realisation
of the image. I used the great "Deciduous Tree Ver. 0.4US" plugin to generate 
them in a most time-efficient manner.
The ferns/weeds/whatever on the ground were then created by simply arraying
bent, elongated cones and creating a suitable scatter object. Rocks were done
by adding noise to scaled geospheres. The brick wall was then created by
arraying chamfer boxes, adding noise and then manually displacing some of the
stones.
A quite shiny material was applied to the face to give the impression that the
person has been perspiring quite a lot, given that she's in quite an emotional
state. Also, the material is very pale, again to indicate shock.