TITLE: I could do that!
NAME: John D. Gwinner
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: john.gwinner@cornell.edu
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: icould.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV 1.1 (final), PovRAY 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray, Poser 6, PoseRay

RENDER TIME: 
    41 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 64, 3700 "San Diego" core. 4G RAM, Windows XP

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Victoria finally drags Mike to the Gallery.  "Oh, this one is nice!"

"I could do that!"

"But you didn't, Mike, you didn't".




I was inspired by two things: the first was the picture at:
http://www.fassbendergallery.com/Badur/abadur01a.html

The second was an exclamantion a guy made at the Smithsonian Museum of Modern
Art years ago.  However, as my brother once pointed out, "Then do it".  It's
one thing to look at it and think you can copy it, it's something else to think
of it *first*.  (My brother has a Degree in Fine Arts, and used to live in an
Art Foundary).

It turns out to be extrodinarily difficult to make something 'minimal'. 

The two gray squares are my invention, however.  One floats above the other
slightly, held by a steel rod.

I was attempting to light the scene with a bright outdoor sky plane and just
radiosity (and a couple of spots on the art), but I had some issues with
Radiosity so I finally broke down and made up a few area lights.  I'm not happy
with all the lighting, there are some issues.  I think the transparency maps
aren't working right for the hair on Victoria, and at the last minute her face
turned racoonish.  I need to get better Radiosity settings.

I used Rene Bui's AOI texture experiments as the basis for Victoria's skin
texture.  It didn't seem to work well with the 'rougher' texture on the guy, so
I had to pull it at the last minute.  His hands turned black although his face
was OK, and the settings were similar on both.  

The black dress is a poser Dynamic cloth item that I draped to "Glamorous
Vickies" current pose.