TITLE: Infestation
NAME: Grey Knight
COUNTRY: Ireland
EMAIL: greyknight3@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: sorry, not at the minute
TOPIC: Insects & Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gkinfest.jpg
ZIPFILE: gkinfest.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    My brain & a calculator -)

RENDER TIME: 
    7m 27s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A Sectoid invasion swarm moves down a small street in the 'burbs, consuming
everything in it's path.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

    Hooh baby. I only came up with the concept for this four (count 'em!) days
before the deadline. As a result, I had to sacrifice  certain amount of image
quality over time. Still, I think it worked out quite well.
    The entire scene was created from scratch; none of these models are prefabs
(although I did design the insects & spider as prefabs so I could reuse them
later).
    You may have noticed the preponderance of CSG primitives in the scene. I
must confess to being a bit of a "primitive" man; I very rarely use advanced
objects. The most advanced shape in this scene is the blob{} used for the
spider's body, and the only patch object is a single disc{} in the beetles'
buzzsaws!
    I was trying to get some fire & explosions in the ruined buildings behind
the swarm, but they didn't work out so I removed them (4 days, remember?) I was
going to but in some wasps with missile launchers, but again; no time. Ah well,
maybe next time.
    Well, I don't think this is going to win, but I might at least get a good
score in Originality:-)