TITLE: The City NAME: Jim Knepley COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: jknepley@chisp.net TOPIC: The City COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: thecity.jpg RENDERER USED: Carrara TOOLS USED: Photoshop RENDER TIME: 5 minutes HARDWARE USED: AMD K6-3/400, 256MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Your monitor adjustments are critical to the viewing of this image because it is natively dark. My monitor claims to have a 2.25 gamma, you may need to tweak your display if it's too dark / bright. The image should be nearly black in the lower left corner, and the car shouldn't stand out very much. It's late at night in The City. A cold wind blows swirles in an alleyway. This is the run-down home of a hard working, but yet unsuccessful, newcomer to the area. It's a rough part of town, but the rent is cheap and it allows him to build up his assets before moving to more luxurious surroundings. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This is my first serious project in Carrara. The scene was originally inspired by an image in a comic book but bears little resemblance to it now. The walls and sidewalk are texture maps, everything else is procedural shaders that I created for this scene. The tires and trash cans are spline models, everything else either primitives or vertex models. The tires are two parts (tread and sidewall), with the tread being a mix of modelling and procedural bump map. The trash cans are covered in a reasonably complex procedural shader. The papers started their life as a particle emitter converted to a vertex model so I could tweak the overall look. A wave deformer was applied to give them the blown look. The chain link fence is modelled, not a transparency map. The car is a vertex model and shaders. It's largely a shell and doesn't really have too terribly much detail. The oxidized paint is a procedural shader. The graffiti was originally a photo I took of some graffiti on the side of a building in Denver, added as a decal. I used Photoshop to adjust the gamma to try and encompass most monitors and add the title. The source file is quite large, so it is not included here.