EMAIL:no13@no13.net
NAME:Nathan O'Brien
TOPIC:Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:This Little Piggy
COUNTRY:Australia
WEBPAGE:http://www.no13.net
RENDERER USED:Povray for Windows. 3.1
TOOLS USED: Paintshop Pro, Terragen, Plant Studio, Trees by Gilles Tran, Torspline by Ron Parker, Texture magic.
RENDER TIME:1 hour (30 min of which was parsing)
HARDWARE USED:Pentium II with 128Mb ram, Nt4 OS
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The first thing that came to mind with this topic was flying pigs. Even though I'm sure there will be other flying pig images I decided to go ahead with the idea as I could not think of anything else that inspired an image with equal intensity.

So why are there flying pigs ? Time for a little context. The oscar for most unbelievable utterance this decade goes to Bill Clinton for his poker faced denial that he had sex with Monika L. Put Bill with some flying pigs, his claim, larger than life on a "Bill" board and you have the essence of the concept. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The scene is a hodge podge of techniques.

Starting from the background.
The background landscape was rendered in Terragen and used as a background (in lieu of the default black) using a little background macro I wrote.

The far grass and mounds a simple height fields.

The trees were created using the tree macro written by Gilles Tran.

The plants were created using Plant Studio and then distributed using a simple #while loop.

The billboard poster is a collection simple hand coded bezier patches with an image map created in paint shop pro using images downloaded from the net.

The fence is just a bunch of superellipsoids with a modified standard wood texture.

The foreground is another height field with a water plane and randomly distributed pebbles.

The pigs were created from blobs by hand and converted into a macro so that I could manipulate the legs, head and wing angles. The wings were taken from a poser accessories site on the net in obj format. The tail was created using the Torspline macro by Ron Parker.

Not much of a description (I know).... but work has been hell and I'm lucky to complete an image this round.