TITLE: Mr. Tornado & Sons
NAME: Diego Magnani
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: diegocg@quipo.it
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Forces of Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dtornado.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender Version 2.36 internal raytracer


TOOLS USED: 
    Blender, Micrografx Picture Publisher for texture maps


RENDER TIME: 
    22 minutes at 1024x768


HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1700 XP, 512 MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I think tornado is one of the greatest, terrifying forces of nature. First I've
planned  to create a very dramatical image, but later I preferred to render the
atmosphere of something like a Gary Larson cartoon instead.
Forgive me for my awful sense of humour :-)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Tornado has been created with multiple non static particles emitters. Particles
flow of "bodies" and "arms" deformed with lattices. Procedural textures with
colorband settings used to obtain a volumetric effect. A vertical and a
horizontal plane used like emitter for the big cloud on top. A little mist in
ambient settings help me to increase this result.
Other objects: cars are modeled with a lot of subdivision surfaces. Then scaled
only on vertical axes to obtain a cartoonlike look. Details, transparency, etc,
mapped with images.