TITLE: War of the Ages NAME: John Jones COUNTRY: England EMAIL: john_jones_02086817701@yahoo.co.uk WEBPAGE: N/A TOPIC: Mythology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: jjmyth.jpg RENDERER USED: Bryce 5 TOOLS USED: Bryce 5, Poser 5, Paint shop Pro 7 RENDER TIME: 2 hrs 37 min 6 sec HARDWARE USED: AMD Athlon 2600 1Gb Ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: life verse death, an epic battle has begun, the undead army has risen to destroy humanity (again) calling the beasts of the gods to fight by their sides. Cerberus the headed dog and guardian of hells gates has been already slain, but took more then his fair share of mortals with him. The Minotaur, servant of hell is close to being defeated as he claims his last victim. Pegasus soars overhead carrying one of the human captains as he launches arrows at their enemies. the battle is furiously raging, and we get a glimpse at a small section, the Medusa has been spotted by many unfortunate souls, now encapsulated in stone form... And will Zeus assist in the coming hours? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: apart from the obvious Poser figures, everything has been created in Bryce, the large number of shrubs is made up of spheres with some rather interesting textures to give a cascading foliage effect, the pillars are simple objects arranged so with a few negative Booleans to give them that familiar shape, Pegasus' wings are symmetrical lattices from a Wing shape drawn in PSP I have relied heavily on textures to give the feeling of cuts, originally considering it was a battle no body was bleeding and it just looked a little too clean :D But I probably could have used more blood spills on the floor?? but it is still early on in the fight.. I am aware that some of the men have full red clothes whilst others have a gold band, this was deliberate to signify a difference in rank or clan... but I assure you it was deliberate... the ground is made with 2 lattice's one to provide the sandy path area and the other an inverted copy of the same with some manipulation to provide the surrounding rocks, scaled down trees have been placed all over to give twigs and sticks to break through the sand and just provide general ambiance to the image... Most of the foliage as mentioned before is Spheres, so although the image looks complicated (Maybe ?? :D) the wire view is a shed load of spheres Work really hard on this and hope it offers some genuine viewing pleasure, this has been one of my favourite topics yet, so hats off to the person who suggested it, and thanks to those who voted Sorry about the Jpeg compression, wanted to keep the 1400 x 1200 res, but had to drop it 80 % to keep the compression at a minimum