TITLE: mysterys
NAME: Brent Cleary
COUNTRY: America
EMAIL: Clearys4@Amerion.com
TOPIC: Mystery
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mysterys.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 5

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhinocerous, Bryce 5

RENDER TIME: 
    5 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Magic Box

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An eye floats in a jar in a cold lonely room.  The only light comes from a
mysterious glowing power source in the backround, lighting up the room for a
shrowded glimpse at at the mysterious being.  Where is he?  What is he their
for? Who created him?  Is he hungry? And if so, how the hell is he going to
eat?  Perhaps their is some helpless slub wandering around the streets of the
distant future, seeing how far he can put his finger down his eye socket before
it starts to sting.  So many question left unanswered by this image, it may be
dangerous to think about.    

  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I designed everything in the picture in Rhino.  Everything in the picture was
pretty simple to make except for the nerve sticking out of the back of the eye
and the giant ball of light.  For the nerve I cut a peice out of the sphere of
the eye and lofted it into a long detailed chunk of meeting stringing from the
back of the eye.  The veiw of it in this image does not do it justice.  the
ball of light is a big sphere surrounded on the surface by over 250 smaller
spheres.  They all have gel surfaces and in the center of the big sphere there
is one radial light making the whole thing glow.  The inside of the jar
actually contains many lights and mechanical doohikies, but when I tried to add
some light to show them, it took away from the erie glow of the picture. I had
to end up sacrificeing a lot of my models for the final product to have that
erie MYSTERIOUS, mood.  Also, with a render time of five hours, I had little
time to check if something looked good rendered so, it was kind of like a hit
or miss shot at making the model look good.  I am very pleased with the way it
turned out.