TITLE: The toon sea
NAME: Eric David
COUNTRY: France (Marseilles)
EMAIL: went@netcourrier.com
WEBPAGE: (none)
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: toonsea.jpg
ZIPFILE: toonsea.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.1e

TOOLS USED: 
    (none except a text editor)

RENDER TIME: 
    About 10 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    iCeleron 433, 64 Mb RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

You are somewhere in the Toon Sea (in Toonland), in the middle of the night.
Pierre, Jean, Hugues and Guillaume are a group of green horned-fishes.
Hugues is gazing an chest full of gold coins.
Behind him, from left to right, there are Jean, Guillaume and Pierre.
A tooncrab seems to be interested in toongems.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The horned-fish is a blob, and its jaw is simply an image-mapped
intersection. The way I have coded bubbles is - as to me - quite interesting
(lighting problems are avoided) : bozo clear/white. They do not look like
real bubbles but they are funny. I have used
interior/emission on a blob to make the gems glow.

Of course this image is not realistic and it wasn't my goal.

And when I first showed the image to my sister, her reaction was :
"Well, but why are there moustache above the eyes?"