NAME: Calvin Ashmore
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: coa@andrew.cmu.edu
WEBPAGE: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu
TOPIC: Warfare
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: MegaPOV .7
TOOLS USED: Moray, Photoshop (file conversion)
RENDER TIME: About 3 hours
HARDWARE USED: PIII 850, 128RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
It's masters gone
 the blade is singed
Waiting for battle,
 for blood it sings
Storms beckon
 lightning cracks
One can see the ghosts in glass
Ribbons red, riding rivers
Through your veins the blood shivers

My concept is a war room temporarily empty. A precious mystical sword lies on a table waiting for battle. Though as the case tends to be, as magic is a fickle force, the sword has plans of its own.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I did all the modelling for this with Moray, because I'm a wuss.

I used MegaPOV for the render because I wanted some blurred reflections and negative lights in various places. The strongest point of this I believe is the cloth and ribbons. I attempted to use as many symbols suggestive of fighting and bloodshed without actually rendering it outright.

This turned out to be a very nice looking room in its entirety, and this image doesn't quite give the whole space justice, though it was necessary to get a reasonable ammount of detail.

Incedentally, this does happen to be my first submission to the IRTC, though I've been a raytracer for a quite a time.