EMAIL: dickbill_2057@yahoo.com
NAME: Richard Guillaume
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Buddha
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: 
RENDERER USED: Imagine IFW2.1.4
TOOLS USED: Organica
RENDER TIME: 15 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Athlon1.2 Ghz, 768Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This represents the enghlited Buddha and the pure lotus, born from the mud. The buddha's hand touch the ground, which is the witness of his enlightment

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The big work was for the modelling. The human body is incredibly difficult to sculpt and my Buddha is not a Poser Object. I modelized each body part in Organica, head, torso, legs and arms. Then, these parts have been imported in Imagine as separated objects and meshed together. ImagineIFW2.14 allows the meshing (actually called zmesh) of separate objects, such as the head and the torso in the buddha. After that, it just a matter of composition in Imagine. The tentacles emerging from the mud symbolize the darkness of the world, this was done with a simple Imagine particlisation of a torus. The lotus is made of Imagine "forms". The textures are basic Imagine textures, cloud for the sky, linear, wave for the sea, dirt and wormvein for the buddha's skin.