TITLE: Her Father's Gift
NAME: Stephen Lumini
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: slumini@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Absence
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dadgift.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio Max ver 4

TOOLS USED: 


RENDER TIME: 
    6M 33S

HARDWARE USED: 


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A young girl is taken from her family.  Her father is a Sorcerer in a place 
that turns against them in fear.  Her close knit family is torn apart, and 
she is placed in solitary confinement.  Her only consolation in the absence 
of her family and friends is magic _ the gift her father gave her.  She is 
both angry and heart-torn looking at the flower, it is beautiful and reminds 
her of her family, but is also, as she sees it, the cause of all her pain.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The majority of the scene (bricks, door, floor, etc) is simple primitives 
with some noise and basic edit mesh applied.  Similar to what can be done in 
MORAY.
The clothes and body are Quad patches shaped into place.  There is an 
excellent tutorial at 
http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp on how to 
accomplish these tasks.
Finally the flower are simply connected lines with a extrusion of .1 and an 
3d Studio filter called Glow.