TITLE: The Last Piece NAME: Calen Tackett COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: Nitro_Glis@yahoo.com TOPIC: Warfare COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: lastpiec.jpg RENDERER USED: POV TOOLS USED: Moray, sPatch, Paint Shop Pro(for textures), RENDER TIME: 8 hours 46 min 23 sec HARDWARE USED: PIII 733mhz 128mg ATI IMAGE DESCRIPTION: For 6,000 years, the Spartoi fought and fought. They Fought with a relentless passion because they had different masters one evil one good. They fought in the most decollate of places where no human dare go. One day while they were, you know, fighting, they got very tired, so they decided to take a little break. The went to the city and rented a lovely house for a number of years. Giligand the evil worked as a model for the local school and Munch the pure worked at the hunted house as an extra. They decided after a while that fighting for millennia was a big waste of their time and decided not to fight again. They lived happily for another few years. Giligand started dating Calista Flockheart and Munch was now working as after photos for weight-loss commercials. Everything was perfect until one day when Munch brought home a Delicious Cherry pie. They enjoyed the pie together piece after piece but for some strange reason the person who had cut the pie cut it into 5 pieces instead of 6. "if it's all the same to you I'd Like that last piece" said Munch, "don't you think I would like it too?" Replied Giligand. "you had the last piece last time!" exclaimed Munch, "you can have the last piece next time I promise" ensured Giligand "I'm just hungry this time". "I'm sick of this!" proclaimed Munch, "you've been running me like a shoe since we stopped fighting!! And I'm sick of it!!". "you never minded before!" replied Giligand, "I just thought having a Spartoi servant was better than being a dead Spartoi". "You twit!! your mine!!" threatened Munch, "I think your bluffing, you don't have the guts... literally..." replied Giligand. "watch me!" Just then Munch grabbed one of their Spartoi swords off the rack above the fire place and pointed it at Giligand. "Oh please..." said Giligand sarcastically Grabbing his sword off the rack as Munch waited with a chivalrous respect. Just then Giligand lashed out quickly trying to take Munch by surprise out of fear. "you coward" said Munch, "you forgot Evil" replied Giligand. After nearly 10 years they were back at their fighting. They fought and fought and it seemed Giligand was gaining the upper hand using mean nasty tactics, very unchivalrous of him. Just as it looked like the end of the good Spartoi Munch he leapt off the counter and as Giligand looked up he saw his end was upon him. As he looked time seemed to slow down, he knew there was nothing he could do. He new he was evil and didn't care and only now after a lifetime of evilness did he finally understand. Just then time seemed to resume and with a thundering crash the side of good prevailed and Giligand was defeated at last. And as a bonus Munch got the last piece of pie!! The moral of this story: The Spiffy Spartoi Always wins and To the Victor goes the Spartoi. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: well, well, well, where should I start? well first off I didn't start this image till like two weeks ago, because I had another image before this one I was working on and I thought it was stupid so I didn't finish it. I suddenly got struck with this idea and I liked it so I started modeling the pie. Originally I was going to make the pie the only thing in focus and I was going have like to kids fighting in the background, but..... I didn't think I was going to have time to model and pose some human models, and I don't have poser I have to model people with sPatch. which I've done before and its a pain. any way I already had some of the Spartoi model, from a free model site (can't remember which one) so I went with that, I increased the triangle count on those with a little progie I have, not too much or it gets all 'speckly'. At the same time I was putting together the kitchen starting with cubes and basic colors. I did many different poses with the skel (I only had one at first) then I thought of the battle idea (more in line with the topic) so I added another and messed with the pose a lot. all at the same time I was modeling cabinets chairs (you can't see them very well but they're there :) Wall stuff like the thing above the stove which is made out of cylinders and a neat lil algorithm I came up with. I added the calendar bottles and all the stuff you can see ass I was putting the main scene together, otherwise I would have never finished on time, I barley got under the wire as is, if I had thought of this image sooner it would be packed with details, but I just didn't have enough time to add them. I did get plenty of modeling time in (less sleep) in two weeks 3 days I spent 112 hours modeling. A lot of it was trying to get the muscles to look right, I finally got them looking 'satisfactory' but they would have been fantastic if I had more time. this image has really increased my objects lib, that's always nice, everything except the skel was modeled for this image, I'm really proud of the sword (shameless pride) its actually all primitive, quite complex I might add. anyway I hoped you like my expression. -Calen~