TITLE: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
NAME: Sammy Fischer
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: sammy@cube.net
WEBPAGE: http://home.talkcity.com/GalleryDr/schnoet
TOPIC: laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: drjay.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Maxon Cinema 4D XL 6.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Photopaint 9, Poser3

RENDER TIME: 
    ~1h20mn (I forgot to write the exact time down \

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dual P3-500, 384MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

 
Excerpt from Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson

"He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled,
staggered, clutched at the
    table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and
as I looked there came, I
    thought, a change -- he seemed to swell -- his face became suddenly black
and the features seemed
    to melt and alter -- and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped
back against the wall, my
    arm raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror."

(yeah... I know the face of the poser isn't black but more like 'bleak' ... but
it looked better:)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


There are 9 lights in the scenes : a general light above the stairway, a planar
(ambient) light near each wall, the floor and te rooftop, an additional light
in the burner's flame, and a last decreasing one in the lilac fluid in the bowl
to add some reflections.
Dr. Jekyll is a poser (you would have guessed anyway ;), the bottles are loft
objects, their cork a rotation object. the 'cornue' (that's french. i don't
know the english word, but it's the big bowl on the bunsen burner) was done
using metasplines and bools, the splashes on the table are also metasplines,
the glass tube is a loft object  ... all in all a very simple image, but as I
started it on the 27th, it really had to be ;)
The signature was added using Corel Photopaint. 

Enjoy,
Sammy