EMAIL: ricco@alphalink.com.au
NAME: Luke Richardson
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Weather Man
COUNTRY: Australia
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.00
TOOLS USED: Midnight Modeller 2.1c, TrueSpace2 beta.
RENDER TIME: 2hrs 34min 48sec
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
An attempt to make a man "controlling" the weather or lightning. Sort of like a mage or some mystical guy.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I used blobs to model the man and used individual bricks for the blocks in the building.  It took a heck of a long time to do both, and I don't think I will ever do that again. It took so long to render because of a faint blue area light I put in, but I don't know if it made much difference to the overall picture.  For the lightning, I modelled it in MNM 2.1, using the pipen function.  The cape was modelled in Truespace, saved in DXF format and converted to pov with MNM.  A fairly long and arduous process, but it looks alright.