TITLE: 3 Monks
NAME: Louis Gagnon-Séguin
COUNTRY: Québec,Canada
EMAIL: popo_16@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 3_monks.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    pen and paper of course, spatch and Paint shop pro for jpg
conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    19m28s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 350 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

First, I wanted to create a big temple with a lot of monks (at least 7), a big
monster (requiring a lot of modelisation and texture researches) and a big
lightning which would creates a link between evil and earth.
I arrived to do that except for the monster (lack of time and 3d experience) and
the lightning (I tried to model it in spatch but it wasn't realistic, even with
a little glow.
And for the monks, I decided to put only 3 because it was surcharging the image
and there wasn't enough contrast between them.
So, finally, this image represents the temple of Nustridami and 3 monks who are
venerating a blue crystal ball - symbol of their god Zircus. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

First, I just wanted to say that this is my first participation for a 3d contest
and one of my first 3d image (objectives critics will be appreciated).
The ground is made in Pov using a simple colo_map.
The temple is made in spatch and for the texture, I used a crackled normal.
The monks are modelled in spatch and are using 3d-noise to imitate their
clothes.
The lanterns are modelled in spatch. There is look_like spheres in them to make
a little blur around them.
In total, there is 8 lights (4 behind the camera).
The object in the middle is a sphere with a blue media in it, a difference of 2
cylinders and 4 torus.

PS: Sorry for my bad english, I'm francophone.