TITLE: The Sinking NAME: Mark `ScottishPig' Burger COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: dapigg2000@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: http://www.scottishpig.tk TOPIC: LONLINESS COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: splon.jpg RENDERER USED: Blender-Creator 2.23-linux TOOLS USED: Blender-1.80a windows and Blender-Creator-2.23 linux and GIMP RENDER TIME: 45 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 333MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It's a very enigmatic picture-- it shows a giant loss of life, without showing any loss of life. Clever? It's meant to inspire mystery-- there is nobody in the scene, yet it takes so many people to man a ship. So... where is everybody? And the boat in the foreground- also empty. This also means that I was afraid to put anyone in because whenever I try to model a human, it always comes out as a ghoul. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Modelling took next to forever in blender. The water itself took a while too. Blender's no raytracer, so the water is a clever environment map applied with a touch of foam, which is hardly visible due to the MANY MANY alterations in colour to the water. Textures were -ALL- made in gimp, and then touched up a bit and mapped around in blender. Blender can change the contrast/brightness/colour of image maps, but I didn't use many image maps, so it didn't come in too much handy. The grime & dirt on the sails is proceedural, the sail textures themselves are just a striped JPEG loaded into blender. A four year old could do this work, but I think it turned out formidable. Hey, let's face it, I'm in for the challenge, I don't expect to lose, but I don't want to come in 60th place for this one.... Now, back to the image. The original sketches for this called for people to be in the scene, but after looking for a few minutes at the original sketch, the feeling was more `tragic' than `lonely'. (That gives me an idea for the next IRTC topic suggestion, but ....) I figured just as well get rid of the dark skies and people and make it lonely looking lonely. The contrast of this pic also makes it seem lonely. Depressive is more like it... because the boat seems much much darker than the backdrop. This is not an accident, though I've been criticised hundreds of times for it. I will not `fix' this because it's intentional. The sky's meant to be pretty cheery- like after a storm, then the ship and small boat is lonely. The image didn't take too long to render, considering. If it were raytraced, it'd have taken forever. I cannot say that blender has the greatest renderer, but I am most used to it. I'd lastly like to thank all the people who critiqued this pic for as long as they've known... these are the folks of irc.freenode.net in #blenderchat. --SP