TITLE: "Trapped in my world"
NAME: Pierre-Yves Lafleur
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: diablopy@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: None yet...
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: trapped.jpg
RENDERER USED
    Bryce 5

TOOLS USED:
    ACDSee 4.0 for the JPG conversion

RENDER TIME:
    2 hours

HARDWARE USED:
    Pentium 4 1,7GHz, 256Mb SDRAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Loneliness is a so powerful feeling...it may makes you feel like if you were far away from
everything else in this world, just like if you were trapped in a glass cover as in the
picture. Trapped in your own world!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

It's my first IRTC submission and one of my first 3D modeling so I learned a lot by creating 
this picture. But what I found the most difficult is that Bryce cannot deform objects (like 
bending and all stuff like that). So I had to deal with this and to use a lot of boolean 
operations to create everything I needed. 

First of all, the globe's base is made of stacked tori, shaped with negative tori. The kind of 
claws which hold the globe are made from tori again, cutted by a negative sphere. The mountains, 
trees and sky are made with Bryce's terrain editor, tree lab and sky lab (all 3 are very nice 
tools). The haze/fog in the sky is a cube big enough to include all the scene with volumetric 
smoke material. For the globe's reflexion, I used a spotlight instead of adding some 
specularity for a more realistic effect. Finally, the tower is basicly a cylinder. The bending 
illusion is created with a very big torus as well as for the kind of triangle shaped figures 
above windows.

I also added a bit of lighting from inside the glass globe for the tower's exterior and some 
lights had been putted in each flame (you can see the light yellow color appearing on the 
tower's sides).

Since Bryce is a 3D landscaping software, I don't recommend it to create such kind of picture.