TITLE: The Drunking Bird
NAME: Maarten Dinger
COUNTRY: New Zealand
EMAIL: irtc@maartendinger.net
WEBPAGE: none (yet)
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: drunking.jpg
ZIPFILE: drunking.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.6

TOOLS USED: 
    AC3D for modelling, Photoshop/scanner for the scanned textures.

RENDER TIME: 
    1 Hr, 53 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium IV 2.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Inspired by one of my childhood toys "The Drinking Bird", I
originally had a closeup of him on a simple table. However, I thought a story
scene might be better so while staring at my wineglass, I decided to have the
little guy driven to 'drinking' alcohol upon hearing Pink Floyd's "Momentary
Lapse of Reason" album (specifically Track 2).


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    This is my first real effort at
raytracing, so the techniques used are fairly simple. All the models and the
basic scene setup were created in AC3D were exported to Povray for final
rendering. Scanned textures are used on the phonebook, CD cover, wine bottle,
carpet and painting. Textures on glass objects, cork, coffee table, and picture
frame etc are derived from standard or slightly modified Povray includes
supplied with the program, and/or basic normal pattern modifiers. The light
source is an area light, with photons and radiosity enabled (although I have
plenty of ambient ligting on most objects). Originally I had focal blur in mind
for this scene (and it's still a flag in the source file), but opted out of it
in the final render - a nice clean sharp image IMO looked better in this case.
Obviously I wanted something to see out the window (e.g. stars), but the
interior lighting made dim objects outside too dark to see, so the exterior
detail was removed. No post-rendering touch-ups have been added. Due to the
large sizes of the scanned images, I have only supplied the .pov source file in
the zip.