TITLE: Son of a Squid
NAME: Christopher James Taylor
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: CJamesT@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://welcome.to/CJamesT
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sonxofxa.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Larry Gritz's Blue Moon Rendering Tools

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhino (ed. Version), Corel photopaint 5

RENDER TIME: 
    About 3 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    K6-2 350, 64mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I new I shouldn't have thrown that toxic ooze down the toilet!


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The whole thing was modelled in Rhino, Textures were created in Corel, it was
rendered in BMRT
and colour correction was done in Corel.
Modelling: The toilet was made from lofted NURBS curves with a great deal of
control point
editing and re-weighting to get it right. The left tentacle was created first
using lofted curves
but this left me with 4 separate NURBS patches so I made the right one by using
Rhino's "pipe" 
command and then moving control points to add creases in the skin. 
Texturing: The only texturing here was the tentacles, everything else is made
with a Shader. The 
tentacle texture takes advantage of the UV mapping co-ordinates to allow a
simple texture to 
follow the curves in the tentacle. The shaders are just the ones supplied with
BMRT.
Rendering: Rendered with radiosity to see if it added anything to the image. It
didn't. Oh well.

This was my first render with BMRT (well, first proper one anyway) and I think
it has come out 
well, although I think this is due to the quality of the renderer and not my own
limited skills. 
The image is a bit of a rush job which can be seen in the left tentacle, the
interaction between 
the floor, the wall and the toilet and the lack of dirt on the toilet. I am
going to work on this
a bit more and then I'll put it on my website which is currently under
construction so I wouldn't
go there until about december.