EMAIL: ratta@ratta.com
NAME: Bob Ratta
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: "The Spell Is Cast"
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.ratta.com/
RENDERER USED: KPT Bryce 2
TOOLS USED: Photoshop, Fractal Design Poser, Fractal Design Studio, KPT Bryce
RENDER TIME: Approx. 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: Power Computing Power Tower Pro 225; 192 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Angel casts her spell, and escapes into the swirling energy vortex the spell creates.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Custom built the angel's wings in FDStudio exported to DXF for import into Poser; custom figure anatomy built in Poser, added wings, posed figure then exported assembly to a DXF file. Imported Angel into Bryce. Created the "Swirling energy" spiral grayscale map using a twirl filter on a graduated rectangle in Photoshop; applied blur filters to soften edges and  exported it as a PICT file for use in Bryce to create the "terrain" of the swirl. Applied custom skin, "wings" and chrome textures to the figure in Bryce. Applied custom water filter to the "Swirling energy" spiral. Applied custom "light ray" to cylinder primative for light beam. Used built in Bryce "Cityscape" texture for background. Applied custon "evening" environmental lighting.

JPG file created using Boxtop Software "Pro JPG" in Photoshop.