TITLE: A Child's Imagination NAME: Jason Smith COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: jps6860@yahoo.com TOPIC: Fortress COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: js_imagn.jpg ZIPFILE: js_imagn.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g TOOLS USED: Moray 3.3, Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0 RENDER TIME: 26m 12s HARDWARE USED: AMD Athlon 600 Mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Children can turn anything into something fun to play with. To an outsider it may appear to be just a ready to collapse pile of cushions and blocks, but to the child it is their impregnable fortress. When I first learned about the topic I knew I had to use a sofa fort and a set of block I remember from when I was growing up. My first draft was to just have those two things in a living room setting. My next idea, after I came up with the teddy bear, was to have the bear inside the cushion fort with some sort of invasion force, tanks or robots, closing in. I tinkered around with the invasion force idea for a while. I did drop the idea of tanks and robots though since I couldn't see a kid playing with both them and the bear and blocks. Instead I used the bear as the enemy and created people to be the fortress defenders. The people are based on Fisher Price Little People toys that I remember playing with around the same age as the blocks. I eventually gave up the invasion force concept and went back to my original idea of just showing something a child might have built. I did decide to add another good fortress building material, the cardboard box. A few more additions to make it look like a living room and the scene was done. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I created all the objects myself using CSG. The idea for the bear came from a similar model by Karl Rudd in the object library at the Moray website (http://www.stmuc.com/moray). As I said above the blocks are based on a set I had growing up, or at least as close as I can remember. The people are based on the Fisher Price Little People toys. The design on the markers is similar to those on Crayola products. I tried to keep the texturing very simple. An early design used only solid colors to give it a cartoony feel. I decided instead to go with the current look. Most textures are still only a solid color with a normal applied. The cardboard box also has a layer of dirt applied to it. Two areas of note are the painting above the sofa and the scribbles on the box. The painting is actually a photograph that I played around with in PhotoDeluxe to get the appearance of a painting. The scribbles are transparent image maps that are applied to thin cubes that are just above the surface of the box. The lighting in the scene comes for two area lights placed where the windows in the room would be. One window is partially visible at the right of the picture with a larger window behind the camera. The zip file contains the Moray scene file and the image maps. I've also included the POV-Ray files as they were exported by Moray.