TITLE: Piano Fish NAME: Jason Knight COUNTRY: United States EMAIL: jsgknight@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.ez?Who=jsgknight TOPIC: Fire and Ice COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: pianofis.jpg ZIPFILE: pianofis.zip RENDERER USED: Cinema 4D TOOLS USED: My demented mind. RENDER TIME: 1 hr HARDWARE USED: Anything and everything I could hook to my computer to make it run faster. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I have included full size version of the image in the zip file. I realize this image may be a stretch as far as the Fire & Ice topic goes, but I assure you that when I started out my intentions were much more focused. Hopefully the judges wont be to brutal after reading this. My original plan was to make an ice fish jumping out of a bowl of flaming hot lava, but when I rendered it, I thought it looked pathetic. Then (this is when I got way off track) I shifted focus and decided to make the fins into piano keys and the flaming droplets of lava into music notes. With a few good suggestions from my friends I decided to model some jets and pipes. He looked a bit lonely, so I decided to model a passenger. Modeling the dragon took the longest, he is made of metaballs. With the dragon came the need for a saddle, harness and a seatbelt. In keeping with my own piano theme (way off track, now) I decided to model a hat shaped like a piano hammer. In the end I ran out of time and was so far off topic that I considered scratching the whole project. I found some spare time to add the fire and smoke 3 hours before the deadline and unfortunately neither turned out how I imagined. Anyway, I had fun making the little fellows and hopefully someone will enjoy them. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I also included a copy my Cinema 4D(v9) file in the zip file. I would ask that my models not be reused in any way, but please feel free to learn from my file. The water droplets/music notes are made using splines and metaballs. The fish was originally from PlanIt3D but required a major overhaul. The fins/piano keys are box modeled and then deformers were added to shape them. Unfortunately they don_t look very much like ice, but they were supposed to fulfill the "Ice" requirement for the topic. The jet pipe was made using the QuickPipe plugin and several deformers. The other pipes, harness, seatbelt, hat straps and parts of the saddle were also made using the same plugin. The dragon was modeled using splines and metaballs; this took a while to get him to look right. The piano hammer/hat is an extrude nurbs object with some hair added using the HairDepartment plugin. The flames were created using omni lights with visible light turned on and noise added. They are my feeble attempt at fulfilling the "fire" requirement. The smoke was a quick last minute add-on and is made with relief objects. All image textures are made in Corel Photo-Paint, Adobe PhotoShop CS and Macromedia Flash MX. The only postwork is the copyright and signature. Thanks for looking and voting, good luck to all the entries.