EMAIL: stritech@iname.com
NAME: Johan Stribeck
TOPIC: Magic
COPYRIGHT:I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
TITLE: Voodoo
COUNTRY: Sweden
WEBPAGE: http://hem.passagen.se/stritech
RENDERER USED: 3DStudio Max Scanline renderer 
TOOLS USED: Paintshop pro
RENDER TIME: 30 min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166, 64Mb RAM, Matrox Millenium 2Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This image is all about Knurhild, the priest of black magic and his 
former friend Mr Scaramanga.

In these days, Knurhild hates Mr Scaramangas guts, since he stole
Knurhilds beloved and their little baby-girl, Olivia. 

The priest has dusted his old knowledge of voodoo to try
erase Mr Scaramanga from the face of the earth and try to
win back his family.

On the first try, Knurhild tried the common voodoo treatment,
a doll, a couple of voodoo sticks. Nothing happend.

On the second try, he lightened a fire and placed another
doll in the middle of it. Nothing happened

On the third try, he built a model of Mr Scaramangas
riverhouse, placed another doll outside his house.
Just to not be notised, he gave the doll a fishingdevice
(I donīt know the aproperiate word in english).
Then he placed a big bomb in the water behind the doll.
He lightened it and ran out of the castle.

Since the bomb hasnīt exploaded yet I donīt really know
if he made it, but such qute story just got to have a happy ending.
Donīt you think?


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I spent july to get good ideas.
Then I saw the picture in my mind, A castle with magician
stuff and a fireplace. The magicians job was to make those
magical training devices on the tv commercials,
(Abīn back+, Abdominizer, Abbaflex) or what the damn thing was named. 
I think that it would need a magician to make them work.

When the model was nearly finished I got this idea with voodoo.
I was kinda bored with the old one so I through it away.
(But I made a VRML 2.0 file of the training device, If you are
intrested, I got it on my homepage.)

I have modeled every vertex in the scene by my self, but the 
guilliotine are based on a model I downloaded from 3Dcafe ages ago,
so I cannot give the original designer any credits.

Mr Scaramanga himself by the way, was my first try ever to
make something human-alike. But its still a doll.

Excuse me for the bad english by the way.

I used paintshop pro for jpg conversion and applying my tag.

Have a nice day!!!!
Best regards
Johan Stribeck