TITLE: "George sees a Boat"
NAME: Robert J Becraft
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: castlewrks@aol.com
WEBPAGE: www.angelfire.com/md2/castlewrks
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: wowgeorg.jpg
ZIPFILE: wowgeorg.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    poser 3.0, paint, I_view32, PaintShop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    22

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 700mhz, 128Meg Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


This image has tons of things going on it it that have been created mostly with
POV 
primatives.

Fantasy to me has always implied big honking castles... you can't say Fantasy
without
such an image coming to my mind.

Mystic is the genre of fantastic creatures that can be found in fantasy
liturature and
ancient tales... of these, the dragon holds premier position.  However, I have
never had
any inclination to create evil dragons, so I created GEORGE... he's named after
the monkey
Curious George because of his love of boats.

To increase the "niceness" of GEORGE, I have added the sweet female figure who
is assisting
George in his boat watching.

The circumstances that have brought about this meeting are the entry of a small
caravel into
the protected harbor of the castle and the raised (now almost closed)
drawbridge.  Traffic
from outside as well as inside is backed up (there is a unit of mounted soldiers
on the far
side of the drawbridge).


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


POSER - used to create girl, knights on bridge and ship crews 
(Total of 13 different figures)

Paint - edited the POSER image map with paint to change the black shadows on
the figures to a different color of black so that the figures didn't get holes
in the POV render.

I_View32 used to convert the POV output to JPEG.

PaintShop Pro used to add name and copyright to image.

Lots and lots of free-time.  

My greatest recommendation to anyone who is looking at this and saying "How did
he do that",
is to think in small portions to obtain large results.  Each small peice of this
render
started out as a stand-alone render project.  Each house was modelled by itself,
each boat,
each figure, each tower, each figure.  Then each smaller item was joined with
more of itself
or other objects to form larger contributions to the image.  Some things start
out as a basic 
shape that is then later reworked into a more detailed completed object (WELL,
complete in
that no further work has yet taken place on that object).

I create all my objects in 1POV = 1meter size... so when I have things like the
medieval
crane on the dock at the far end of the bridge, I an incorporate them into new
images.  The
same thing goes for the wagons which many of you have seen before.  The boats
have undergone
some significant development.  They are entirely POV Primatives and make use of
textures
to give the decking planks, the sides planks.

This will not be the last time you see many of these objects... other ideas are
already 
forming.  You too should plan on using similar techniques to maximize the
development time 
you put into your object collection.

The zip file for this composition does not contain any of the GIF's required to
generate the
image.  These are 1.2 meg or so... should you want a copy, I might be convinced
to send them
to you. ;-)

Enjoy,
Robert J Becraft