EMAIL: info@michaelscholz.de NAME: Michael Scholz TOPIC: Horror COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Chair COUNTRY: Germany WEBPAGE: http://www.michaelscholz.de RENDERER USED: 3DStudioMax2.5 TOOLS USED: 3DStudioMax2.5 RENDER TIME: 34 seconds HARDWARE USED: Dual PII400, 256MB Ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: There is a story to be told. It's not about what we see, it's about what we don't see. In our imagination we start piecing together the clues. It is a riddle we cannot solve. A story unfolds in our head. We are trapped in our imagination. Here is where the horror begins. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Geometry The bunny is made of squashed and bent spheres, its ears are Nurbs. The chair-parts are extruded or beveled splines and some cylinders. The straps are flat rectangles lofted along curved splines. And the blood is made out of spline-shapes beveled a bit with curved edges. Texturing Except for the bunny, which uses a scanned piece of carpet as bump, all textures are procedural noise- and speckle-maps which sometimes are combined within a blend-material in order to make things dirty. There are only few colors: different shades of grey and a red tone. Lighting A spotlight from above (with a touch of blue) as main light source, one or two small neutral grey omnis filling from the side and a few redish omnis with short attenuation above the blood-pools to give a radiosity effect (bouncing red light off the blood onto the chair).