TITLE: The rider looks back for a last sight of home
NAME: Peter Murray
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pdmfort.jpg
ZIPFILE: pdmfort.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    POV-Ray 3.1g.r1 Macintosh PPC - yay!


TOOLS USED: 

    Just the built-in editor, I think.
    Oh, and sketches on paper.
    And Adobe Photoshop to convert the Pict file to JPG.
REFERENCES:
    Summerhays' Encyclopaedia for Horsemen, by R.S. Summerhays and
        Valerie Russell, Threshold Books 1988 ISBN 0 86436 191 2
    memories of an Odds Bodkins book by Dan O'Neill

RENDER TIME: 

    Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
    Time For Trace:    0 hours 21 minutes  34.0 seconds (1294 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours 21 minutes  42.0 seconds (1302 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 

    Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop, now with 256Mb
DISCLAIMER: 
    No bear was left feeling isolated in the production of this image.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

    As the sun sets, and the moon rises, a rider looks back for a last
    sight of Castle Plushy, his home, before he rides into the forest
    and loses sight of it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I decided that last round's church, built of stone, wasn't really right for
the bears, so this time I tried to make everything a soft toy.  I began by
making a sun and moon, inspired by the Sun and Moon characters in an old
Dan O'Neill cartoon.  The book is in storage, so I had to go by my
memories of them.  Both are actually light_sources.

Then I made beanbag trees, using blobs for the foliage.  The first attempt
is still in the file, but not visible in the scene.

Then I revised the reindeer from my 1999 Christmas card picture to make
a posable soft toy horse, ridden by the bear from the Contrast round, as
revised for the Worship round....

The castle was built in the last two days of the round, as I'd spent too
much time on the earlier elements or on house-hunting in the real world.
It comes close to the sketch I'd drawn on paper though.  Some of the bears
from the Worship round were used to populate it (I didn't build all those
individual bears just for one round's entry!) though their poses are
different.

Lastly, I changed my mind about the composition and camera position several
times on the 30th of April, the deadline day!

Zip file contents (hopefully now unzippable on PCs without any problem!):
pdmfort.pov
pdmfort.ini
tedbearm.inc
beartex.inc
bearlist.inc
softies.inc
tshirt.cdf
dress2.cdf
lildress.cdf
wanderer.cdf
irtclogo.png
but not gryffindor.png, for copyright reasons.