TITLE: Essence
NAME: Courtney Miles
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: cmiles79@dingoblue.net.au
WEBPAGE: http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~cmiles79
TOPIC: Worlds Within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: essence.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 5

TOOLS USED: 
    Bryce 5, Poser 4

RENDER TIME: 
    10 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon 600, 384MB RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The "worlds within worlds" theme in this image is the world of ones mind within
the world we live in.  I aimed for a harsh contrast between the two words
although this image turned out different to how I planned.  My original
intention was to have a non-transparent face mask (physical world) with the
camera looking through an eye to see the guy in the foetal position (mental
world).  This would make the image a little less abstract but would sacrafice a
lot of detail due to the contrast in size of the two worlds.  I am happy with
the results though and it allows the viewer to make their own interpretation of
which world is the physical and which is the mental; is it an image of an
insane person who is a child deep down or child going insane.  The characters
around the focal character are this persons torment.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Nothing terribly complex in this image.  All models were done in Poser 4 and
assembled in Bryce 5.  The face is a hight field.  I had imported the original
face object, created in poser, but the trasparency of the texture used allowed
you to see all the parts that make up a Poser face.  Didn't look good.  To
create the height field I imported the face into a new bryce scene and rendered
it with a distance mask. 

