TITLE: Callandor Waits
NAME: Steve Martin
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: ecprod@bellsouth.net
WEBPAGE: http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~ecprod
TOPIC: Fantasy
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: callando.jpg
ZIPFILE: callando.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    BMRT 2.5

TOOLS USED: 
    pencil, paper, calculator, patience

RENDER TIME: 
    unknown

HARDWARE USED: 
    homebrew PII-400MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Callandor, a crystal sword-shaped "sa'angreal", an object
which allows a man who can channel the One Power to channel
incredible amounts of the Power. Callandor hangs suspended
in the Stone of Tear, untouchable by any save the hand of the
one true Dragon Reborn.

Callandor is from the Robert Jordan series "The Wheel of Time".
This image was inspired by the cover of book 3, "The
Dragon Reborn", artwork by Darrell Sweet.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This is my first "semi-serious" work done with a
RenderMan-compliant renderer. I had a blast.

All modelling was done by trial-and-error with pencil and
paper. The image was done with the excellent Blue Moon
Rendering Tools renderer by Larry Gritz and Exluna
(thanks, Larry, for giving the world such a cool renderer
for free) on a Red Hat 7.1 Linux box.

The decorative scrollwork at the bottom of the columns
was done with a custom displacement shader and a texture map
done with the Gimp.

The fires were done with a slighly modified shader called
"KMFlame" downloaded from www.renderman.org. The glow around
the sword is done with the "glow" shader listed in the RenderMan
Companion. The sword is all mine.