TITLE: Schizophrenia
NAME: Hildur Kolbrun Andresdottir
COUNTRY: Iceland
EMAIL: hildurka@simnet.is
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: schizo.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.3, Terragen, Poser 4, 3DWin Converter, Photoshop 7 for
textures and format convertion. 

RENDER TIME: 
    Approx. 6 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Amd Athlon 1200 mHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Man is split. His life is full of contradictions. He clings desperately to the
things he knows, hoping they are the right thing to do.
Every day choices have to be made between good or bad, dark or light, love or
hate.
Sometimes the choices are not that easy to distinguish and it gets more and more
difficult to figure out which is which. This creates a lot of stress and
sometimes utter despair. 
It takes a lot of courage to loosen the grip and dive into the unknown. 
That too is risky, you never know where the current may take you.
But it_s probably better than being stuck between a rock and a hard place
forever.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The backgrond was generated and rendered in Terragen and textured on a big box.

The human is a Poser model, converted to Moray/Povray format in 3DWin.
The two rocks in the foreground are heightfields. 
I wanted to put a lot more into this scene but as I was unable to continue my
work because of constant system hang-ups, I decided to submit this as it is.