TITLE: I never came up with one NAME: Tom "DrayGo" Walker COUNTRY: Australia EMAIL: the_fallen_@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: Not up yet TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: twmystic.jpg RENDERER USED: 3D Studio Max r3.1 TOOLS USED: 3Ds max Video Post RENDER TIME: about 3 weeks on and of to build, approx. 45 minutes to render HARDWARE USED: PII 350, 512mb SDram, 32mb TnT2 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: When my mate told me the theme of this round my mind started swimming in ideas from all the fantasy art that I'd seen when I was younger, and then I remembered a picture I had drawn before I had gotten in to 3d modelling, so I searched high and low until I found it amongst a pile of other drawings from when I was in high school. A sword being bathed in a supernatural light by Druids in an old castle, by the light of a full moon what could be more mystical than that? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Basically it's all box modelling with a lot of vertice manipulation and a lot of meshsmooth Iterations. Video post for the glow around the ball and sword. The bricks are all individual boxes with a foliage picture from the max material library for the bump map.