TITLE: The Weather Man
NAME: Luke Richardson
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: ricco@alphalink.com.au
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lrwthman.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.00

TOOLS USED: 
    Midnight Modeller 2.1c, TrueSpace2 beta.

RENDER TIME: 
    2hrs 34min 48sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An attempt to make a man "controlling" the weather or lightning. Sort of like a
mage or some mystical guy.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I used blobs to model the man and used individual bricks for the blocks in the
building.  It took a heck of a long time to do both, and I don't think I will
ever do that again. It took so long to render because of a faint blue area
light I put in, but I don't know if it made much difference to the overall
picture.  For the lightning, I modelled it in MNM 2.1, using the pipen
function.  The cape was modelled in Truespace, saved in DXF format and
converted to pov with MNM.  A fairly long and arduous process, but it looks
alright.