Onome Okuma
ripclaw@cc.gatech.edu

Programs:

        POV-ray 2.2: Pentium Optimized Compile

        Adobe Photoshop 3.0


Image:

        oosunfir.jpg

Process:

        This is my attempt to create the Marvel Comics character Sunfire from
     the X-Men.  For those of you who don't collect comics this is the Sunfire
     from The Age of Apocalypse storyline from the X-titles.  I got the idea for
     this image from a drawing I did of the same character.  I think character
     creation, especially human characters is very difficult using Povray due
     to being primarily constrained to the simple primitives.  I created Sunfire
     from only simple primitives.  No modellers were used, just povray and a
     little graph paper.  The overall process was pretty tedious but worth it.
     The final version that I submitted was not what I originally wanted to do
     with this image, but due to time constraints I had to cut things short.  I
     will probably return to this image later and create a different scene to
     place the character in.  There was a little post processing done to this
     image, which is probably obvious.  The two lens flares and a little blur was
     added to the image for effect.  There are several include files that go with
     this image that I did not upload.  If anyone has questions about them feel
     free to email me.  The final render took 13 mins 47 secs on a Pentium 100
     with 24 megs of ram in Win95.