TITLE: "Midnight Snack"
NAME: Steve Roughton
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: zode@uswest.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.zode.com
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: roughton.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Ray Dream Studio 5.01

TOOLS USED: 
    Vueprint

RENDER TIME: 
    51 min 56 sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    Gateway G6-266

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

His friends told this poor android not to go out on the moors at night, but
alas,
he did not believe them.  Now he's robot soup.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

No bitmap textures were used in this image.  I created the background forest
using the
Tree Druid extension for Ray Dream Studio.  The glow around the boat lamp is a
semi-
transparent sphere.  The boat's hull combines a marble function and spot
function to
make the hull appear aged and covered with creepers.  The snake's texture
combines a
cellular function to form its scales, and a large-scale wood grain function for
its
bottom plates.  The eye is a sphere with a black wire function forming the slit
pupil.
The water combines dark blue and green in a marble pattern to simulate a dark
pool
clogged with algae.  Most of the android's body parts are warped spheres or
cylinders,
except the chest plate which is a free-form object.  I connected the android's
limbs
using Ray Dream Studio's "link" feature so that moving one body part moves the
joints
accordingly; eg. moving the hand bends the arm at the elbow and shoulder.  The
snake's
lower jaw is linked to its upper jaw in a similar fashion.


