TITLE: "A King's Nightmare" NAME: Jon Kristjan Kristinsson COUNTRY: Iceland EMAIL: bigjko@hotmail.com TOPIC: Dreaming COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: k_nightm.jpg RENDERER USED: 3D Studio Max R4 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 7.04 RENDER TIME: approx. 3 min HARDWARE USED: 1,2 GHz Athlon / 256 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I don't know what I can say about this picture, other than it is a king's nightmare expressed with chess-board players. What's being expressed? A revolution, the pawns are the civilians revolting against the king. The red light is to establish the nightmare factor of the picture and the fact that you can't see anything that the king's not seeing establishes the dream factor, you're exper- iencing this, kind of, from the king's eyes, or mind. Okay, enough with my artistic thoughts. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Chess players are made with lines and then lathed around the Y axis, then subdivided a bit. Added wood textures to the players, black and white-ish, and i'm done with them. Then added a spotlight above them, creating the 'see only what the king sees' effect. And ending with two red lights, creating the dark, death-like atmosphere, which is representing the nightmare factor. Myself, I think i've progressed a bit since my last submitted picture, Glaciers, and I hope you make constructive comments again like you did last time. They helped me a lot in improving my skills.