EMAIL: aligorith@hotmail.com NAME: Josh Lerng TOPIC: Out of Place COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Roasting RENDERER USED: Blender 2.36 TOOLS USED: Blender 2.36 (for creation and rendering), IrfanView (for converting to JPG) RENDER TIME: 7 min IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It should be obvious that it depicts a penguin standing in the desert... Normally penguins are supposed to be in Antarctica or cool climates, but in the desert?? Also, I desided to work in a sort of cartoonish style, instead of photorealistic. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: After a quick brainstorm, I decided to use my first idea. I chose Blender because to me, it's easier to model characters when you can actually see them (not just a bunch of numbers). Due to the lack of any good quality converter, I also rendered it with Blender. Finally, I quickly started modelling the penguin. However, one wrong turn left me redoing much of the penguin's body. The landscape was just two grids with manually created lumps. In fact, the second was a scaled duplicate of the first, so that there would be some stuff in the background. The sun was just a cone made to look like it was glowing. That's basically it. I decided to leave the image simple to make it clearer that this was a desert, not just a little enclosure at a zoo.