TITLE: The New May Fail, The Ancient Shall Prevail
NAME: Josh Carpenter
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: josh@joshcarpenter.com
WEBPAGE: digitalvista.terrashare.com
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: oldnew.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 4.0

TOOLS USED: 
    n/a

RENDER TIME: 
    15 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 850 Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This represents several levels of contrast.  There is the contrast between
modern technology (the spaceship) and ancient technology (the Easter Island
statue).  On a deeper level it represents the contrast between the fleeting and
the everlasting.  The ship has crashed in the sands, which are always shifting
and changing.  The statue is made of the same stuff as the mountain, which is
unchangeable and ultimately durable.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The models are free, courtesy of www.3dup.net.  The material on the ship body
was custom built from the ground up to get the reflectivity and color I was
loking for to be in contrast with the rugged mountains but still harmonize with
the overall colorscheme of the image.  The material on the mountains is
(ironically) the "wet rock" preset with a few little tweaks.  The sand is made
from two "rounded dunes" terrain gray maps intersecting with a pretty heavily
tweaked version of the beach sand preset, but with anti-aliasing on that object
turned off to preserve the slight grain.  A light, complementary beige haze
setting was used to visually push the mountains "up" and "back" a little bit
for a subtler sense of scale since this is an aerial view.  Very slight
brightness and contrast on the post render, plus the website attribution.