EMAIL: renderwahn@firemail.de

NAME: Torsten Ventzke

TOPIC: Spectacular landscapes

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: spectacular woman

COUNTRY: Germany

WEBPAGE:

RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.5

TOOLS USED: Moray 3.3, Metasequoia LE 2., The Gimp

RENDER TIME: approx. 2h 10 min

HARDWARE USED: PIII 800MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Spectacular landscapes....
Beautiful mountains, impressive canyons, nice valleys....

At first I thought of a picture where one can see these things consisting of "dead" materials, such as rocks, water and so on.
But then I noticed the back of my wife and I saw two mountains, an impressive canyon and a very nice valley.
I can`t imagine any landscape that would be lovelier than this spectacular view! 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The back of the woman was completely modeled in Metasequoia using subdivison surfaces. I used some photos and of course my real wife as a reference.
Then the SubD`s were converted to a high resolution poly model which was imported in Moray and rendered with a combination of global illumination and an area light.
The sheet is a highfield with a painted texture in The Gimp.

Regrettably I hadn`t had enough time to use better settings for the area light and the radiosity effects, so the shadow is a little bit grainy.
But I hope some of you would like my picture.

Due to the hughe size of the high res poly model there are no source files as an attachment.