EMAIL: lehtonenkl@hotmail.com
NAME: Klaus Lehtonen
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Reaper Retires
COUNTRY: Finland
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1
TOOLS USED: PSP for conversion
RENDER TIME: 22 min 55 s
HARDWARE USED: AMD 500 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Reaper feels strange after hundreds years of hard work serving darkness and decides to retire.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Ground and the mountains are height fields gerated with Pov-Ray. I used surface normals instead of fancy textures on them. The man is a blob. I think the texture fits pretty well to the mood of the picture. Chain is made of blobs also. The axe is simple CGS with a blob as a handle. When adding fog I noticed that it causes a lot of strapes if viewed with 16bit high color. They disappear in 32bit true color so I highly recomend using it. I hand-coded the whole scene and this is my first serious try on large scene. I hope you like it.