TITLE: Dragons Sanctuary

NAME: Julio J. Teca
COUNTRY: Spain

EMAIL: henry_stauff@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dragons_.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray for Windows 3.1



TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop,Lparser


RENDER TIME: 
    1h 46m 46s


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 100 Mhz with 80 Mb ram (and next to 270 Mb hard disk
for swapping)



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


  Well my english is awful but I'll try to explain the reason because of I 
made this image.

  All I have to say is that I've ever loved dragons. They mean fantasy and 
mystic.
  Dragons appear in most fairy_tales like evil monsters but I think that 
they are more
  complex.

  Just remember Dungeons and Dragons, DragonLance... they are everywhere 
(even in your mind
  according to Terry Pratchett).




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


    That's really difficult. There are near to 74 different objects (the 
objects) in the scene.

  Dragons:

     Mandibles,arms,legs,bodies were made with blobs (and carrying out many 
tests).

  Island:

     The island is an Heightfield. I used photoshop to create the 
heightfield and its texture
     (Push and blur are useful).

  Buildings:

     The building on the island is a 'TOLOS' (I don't know the translation). 
Almost all the
     objects are made using revolution surfaces.

     The tower is also made using revolution surfaces (and a boolean 
operation).


  Trees:

      Trees are made with L-parser (and a lot of retouch). There are several 
trees in every
     tree!