TITLE: "I don't get it either"
NAME: Andrew McNamara
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
EMAIL: Andrew.McNamara@ukgateway.net
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dontget.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Cinema 4D xl6

TOOLS USED: 
    Cinema 4D xl6, Nendo v1, Poser 3

RENDER TIME: 
    4 Hours 33 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 450, 128 MB RAM, 16 MB graphics card

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is almost certainly one of many underwater scenes, probably featuring
sharks, dolphins or ruined cities, that will be entered for this round. It_s
not really about the sea but at least it_s set in the sea. It_s basically a
pretty obvious joke at the expense of Damien Hirst (the guy who did the shark
in formaldahyde sculpture). Try not to laugh too hard.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The sharks were modelled in Nendo and imported into Cinema 4D where they were
boned and textured.  The figure in the tank was posed and imported from Poser.
All other elements were created in Cinema 4D. Rendering took about 4 hours 33
minutes at 640x480 with anti-aliasing set to 8x8 oversampling. I found the
lighting pretty difficult, eventually using 6 lights with different attributes.
A fog effect was used to create the underwater look.