EMAIL: jknepley@nyx.net NAME: Jim Knepley TOPIC: Arts & Entertainment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Muppet Classic Theatre COUNTRY: USA RENDERER USED: Ray Dream Studio 5 TOOLS USED: Photoshop, Poser 2 RENDER TIME: 7 minutes HARDWARE USED: IBM 6x86 PR200+, 64meg RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Walking down a city street on a cold night I see a place that I frequented as a youth. When Jim Henson died the Muppets would never be the same, and neither would I. Someday the theatre will re-open, and the magic will begin again. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All of the modeling is original. This scene was originally inspired by the Styx:Paradise Theatre CD cover. At first the image bore a stronger likeness to the CD cover, but when I added Muppet images I figured that it shouldn't be so run-down, so I cleaned it up a bit. The statues are meshes created in Poser 2 and imported as DXF files. Everything else is done with stock effects in Ray Dream Studio 5. Many of the textures were custom created for this scene. The Muppet posters were scanned and cropped in Photoshop from "Jim Henson's Muppet Trading Cards" (c) 1993 CARDZ Distribution, Inc -- TM & (c) Jim Henson Productions, Inc. They are, from left to right: "Friends With No Faces" -- Dr. Bunsen "Garth" Honeydew "Spawned in the USA" -- Kermit Greensteen "Rowlf The Dog" -- Entertainer, singer, barker, dog.