TITLE: Realistic Painting
NAME: Gail Shaw
COUNTRY: South Africa
EMAIL: gailshaw@mweb.co.za
WEBPAGE: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/
TOPIC: Worlds within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: painting.jpg
ZIPFILE: painting.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro
             Photoshop
             Poser 4
             Vue d'Espirit

RENDER TIME: 
    2 Hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 3 800Mhz 512 MB Memory

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Sometimes paintings are a little more realistic than they look.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I initially planned to model a pond creature in Rhino, but quickly decided that
my organic modelling skills weren't up to it. I had a fish poser object so I
decided
to use that instead. The three 'paintings' were created in Vue d'Espirit 2 and
processed
in photoshop to give a painted look'. I built up the main scene (paintings,
sculptures and
room) then spent several hours aligning the fish so that it matched with the
painting.
The water drops are created with a macro I wrote to place objects falling from a
moving area 
of space. The closer of the sculptures is a julia fractal, the other is an
isosurface.

The scene is lit mostly with spotlights, allowing me to have areas well lit and
others in shadow.