EMAIL: parallel94_53tx@hotmail.com NAME: Johnny Yip COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION TOPIC: Spirit of Asia TITLE: Morning Practice COUNTRY: Canada WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/quasarplas RENDERER USED: TrueSpace 4.2 TOOLS USED: TrueSpace 4.2, Poser 4, Photoshop RENDER TIME: 01h 05m 10s HARDWARE USED: PII 450, 128MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A morning practice session of the lion dance... I have chosen the idea of Lion Dance for this round because it is a major part of the celebration of New Year's Day. And why during the morning when everything is so dark and gloomy?... well, the spirit doesn't come with the dance, it comes with the dancers - the dancers who try to put on a great show (don't forget to practice). Happy New Year! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The "Structure": Just a bunch of CSG objects (hmm... in Povray terms...). The actual model is very big because my original plan was to have a close up view of the structure, but I guess all those details have gone into waste... The "Lion dance" Except for the two pairs of legs (Poser), 70% of the lion is composed of torus. The deformation function in TS is used to model the head. A ClothMotion plugin is used for the cloth at the back. The fur is created using massive polygons (bad). The "Drummer" Poser and cylinder, quick and simple All the rest... The lights were not easy to control, they can never achieve what I really want... but close enough. The sky background is cool, courtesy of 3D Cafe texture library ;) REMARKS: I would love to release the TS scene file, but it is over 6Mb (2Mb zipped), and not including the textures used... really sorry, I am still using 56K. But if you really want it, i can probably break up the objects models to smaller pieces, just send me an email ;) Happy New Year!