TITLE: Grand-ma chimney
NAME: DIDIER
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: didieric@free.fr
WEBPAGE: http://www.multimania.com/didier3d/
TOPIC: sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: chimney.jpg
ZIPFILE: chimney.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    3d 7h 22m 59s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 350, A4 color scanner


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Grand-ma loves the sea. Her grand-son is a sailor and she's very proud of him.
She often admires his portrait that is on her chimney.
The other day, she found a wonderful pendulum clock at the flee-market. The
clock is figuring a dolphin jumping out of the sea, holding in its flippers a
tuna tin shaped like clock.
The dolphin is wearing a sailor hat. The pendululum itself is figuring an anchor
hanging at the end of a chain. The background of the  clock pictures a mermaid
sitting on a rock next to a sailor.
The sailor looks so much like her grand-son that she can't help thinking she
would love that he marries a girl as beautiful as this mermaid soon. At least
soon enough so she can see it.
Unfortunately the pendulum clock was quite expensive and she had not enough
money to  buy it. But she convinced the salesperson to keep it for her. She
would come back with the money.
Now the pendulum clock is proudly decorating Grand-ma chimney, standing right in
the middle under the helm mirror next to  the picture of her grand-son, the
sailor. Next time her grand-son comes visit her, she will show him the pendulum
clock and the beautiful mermaid in case it would help giving him some ideas.
This was an exhausting day for grand-ma. She had to walk a lot to get this
pendulum clock.
The night is coming. The sun lighten grand-ma chimney with its redish light as
it usally does at the end of the day. The room is becoming dark. Grand-ma turns
the light on. Then I took this picture just before she closed the shutters.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The idea of this overkitch clock came to me because of these objects made of
shells or inspired by the sea, you can find in the souvenir stores when you 're
on holydays near the beach and because of this picture I did with my friends
Pierre & Gilles "the mermaid and the sailor".

I first did the clock. The body of the dolphin is made of spheres, using a while
loop. 
The tail and flippers are prisms.
Actually everything is CSG objects. I did not use any modeller since I'm quite
new to 3D.
This is my first entry to the IRTC.
The lifebuoy is a torus with a brick pattern.
I paid a particular attention to the texture applied to the dolphin because I
wanted it to look like a fancy imaginary marble, plus I wanted it to be more
white at the stomach like it is on the real animal, plus I wanted it to look
like it is wearing a french sailor shirt "a la Jean-Paul Gauthier".
The hands of the clock are made of prisms to look like seaweed.

Then I did the room using a simple box instead of the long to render clock to
study lightning and reflection. The sunset image_map I used as a landscape
reflecting in the mirror and the clock through the windows is a picture I took
with my own camera.
There are two light sources, one orange coming from the sunset, one yellow
coming from the electric light of the room.

aknowledgements : 

Thank you to my friend Patrick Sarfati who did this portrait of me as a sailor
that I used as the portrait of the grand-son on the chimney. 

Thank you to my friends Pierre & Gilles with whom I did the picture of the
mermaid ordered by Swatch for the Pierre & Gilles watch.
Thank you to Stephanie (The Mermaid), Tomah (stylist), Gerald (hairdresser),
Alan(make-up)

P.S. : It took a very long time to render. I may have abused of area lights and
focal blur.