TITLE: HiveQueen
NAME: Gerhard Mair
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: gmair@compuserve.com
WEBPAGE: none presentable up to now
TOPIC: Insects and Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gmhiveq.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce4

TOOLS USED: 

          - Rhino for modeling of the hivequeen, the smaller insects and
            some of the skeletons "clothings"
          - Poser4 for the technician and the skeleton
          - Corel Photopoint for the signature, the conversion of the 
            image from bmp to jpg and the bitmaps for some of the Bryce4
terrains 

RENDER TIME: 
    16 hours 18 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 166 MMX , 64 MB Memory


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The first encounter of mankind and the insectoid hivequeen
on planet sla-247 has been overshadowed by some deep misunterstandings
- on both sides. 

 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

the models:
hivequeen was done in rhino, imported as dxf-file and textured with
bryce-textures. 
The stargate and the energy plant were built from bryce primitives and
terrains.

the textures:
Textures for terrains and objects are pure brycian 2D- and 3D-textures, 
taken from the built-in presets and customized to have the desired properties. 
The Picture seen in the stargate is made by another Bryce scene and then
imported als bmp.

the rendering:
It took more than 15 hours to render the image, mostly due to the extra
light effects and the many transparent and reflecting objects.  

The image is by no means finished and would need a lot of work, 
especially for improvements on the hivequeen and the textures, but i will
have to wait for a new, more powerfull computer before continuing.