TITLE: To Summon An Angel
NAME: Travis Schau
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: Stickgod01@aol.com
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tssummon.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-ray

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for Windows; galaxy plugin. Paint Shop Pro.

RENDER TIME: 
    5 minutes

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

They attacked the weak, peaceful tribes, and it was almost too easy. As they
laid waste to another village, in the distance they saw a bright light, and
then a reflection of it in the Heavens. It moved downwards, to Earth, and the
wrath of an angel was upon them.

Fire and brimstone reigned.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Well...
first off, this image isn't really completed. A good bit of the work was done
hastily, in the last several days before the end of the round. If only I'd
thought of the idea sooner.

Anyway, there's a lot of media in it, and for simplication purposes, it's all
emission media. I had originally used scattering for several effects, but it
didn't exactly give me the effect I'd desired. It got too complicated. Notice
the media around the black "bridge".. it isn't too obvious, but I thought it
was a neat touch.

Each individual tree is made up of several (5 or 6) cones, and some textured
spheres. I got this idea from an entry to the city round, of buildings with
some trees made similar to these. I was pleased and surprised with the ease of
creating this texture, using a gradient with several bump colormaps in it.

The sky and the moon, I'm ashamed to say, are not really my creation. The moon
was a taken from a picture of our moon taken by a satellite, I beleive. I
colorized it using paint shop pro to make it yellow. The sky is a seed of Chris
Colefax's Galaxy plugin. I really wanted to try and make some meteors of my
own, but I ran out of time. Right now, it's 10:30 on Feb. 28th, actually.. PSP
was also used for me to paint the picture on the temple, and create several
heightfeilds.

I hope you like it, because I had a good time making it. Any questions,
comments, or.. whatever, will be happily answered. I'd be quite honored at a
request for the source, but since I don't see it actually happening, I'm going
to decline from posting a .zip file.

Enjoy!
-Travis Schau