TITLE: Just An Otter Day in Paradise
NAME: Dale E. Cieslak
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: dcieslak@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.tripod.com/~DCieslak -- under construction!
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: anotter.jpg
ZIPFILE: anotter.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.0 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for Windows, POVRay 3.0 for Windows, Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 100, 32 MB RAM, Matrox Millenium w/2MB WRAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An otter cruising lazily through the clear, blue water...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I created the otter by using Moray to place most of the shapes, then exported to
POV and made them into a blob.  I had to do a heck of a lot of hand-tweaking in
the POV editor until it looked right.  All of the textures were done by hand in
the POV editor (except for the rocks -- from "stones.inc").  I used Photoshop
to create the height-field for the seafloor (riverbed?) by simply using
"Filter|Render|Clouds" with black and white.  The color map was made in POV. 
The bubbles were placed using Moray (mostly).  The stones were made in Moray,
then positioned in POV.  The water effect was achieved with a translucent
blue-green plane, with caustics and refraction turned on, and using the
"spotted" normal modifier.  I was going to put litter in the water for realism,
but decided "my world" was going to be clean. :)