TITLE: The Final Fantasy
NAME: GMOL
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: gmol@my-dejanews.com
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1
TOOLS USED: sPatch, POV
HARDWARE USED: p233
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
                               The world is veiled in
                              darkness.  The wind stops,  
                                   the sea is wild,
                             and the earth begins to rot.
                                   The people wait,
                            their only hope, a prophecy----

                            'When the world is in darkness
                             Four Warriors will come----'

                              After a long journey, four
                                young warriors arrive,
                                 each holding an ORB.

This image is a sort of interpitation of that wonderful game, Final Fantasy,
for the orignial 8-bit nintendo system.  It's interesting how such simple system could
evoke such pictures in a child's mind....

From the BLACK ORB, the light warriors descend to discover the onset of CHAOS.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Ughhh...I wanted so much more from this image but so little time....
The characters were mostly spatched and the cracks were julia intersections...
I know that bright spot near the air orb is too bright, and there is a sense of emptiness in particular areas, alas, I just couldn't
fix it in the time remaining.

I really felt good about the characters, if you had seen the original 8-bit versions, I think these were good interpetations on them (the fighters hair seen from side view looks SO cool :).
If there are any FF fans out there I'd be glad to give renderings of the characters separately/spatches.