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.