TITLE: Burn the Witch
NAME: Margaret Hoskins
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: todda@cei.net
WEBPAGE: http://mh_portfolio.tripod.com/

TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mhburn.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 3D


TOOLS USED: 
    Bryce 3D, Corel Photopaint, sPatch, Poser 3, Ray Dream Studio 5


RENDER TIME: 
    over 10 hours


HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6-2 400, 128 MB SD-RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Very near historic old Salem.  A young woman hears the minister gathering the
townspeople in the courtyard.  "She's a witch!  Let's burn her!"  She runs
through the rain as fast as her legs and bare feet will carry her.  With the
pack at her heels.  And nowhere safe to hide or hope of escape.

(I was told that this image was not particularly frightening, but after all of
the test renders, nitpicking, and the render time, I was determined to submit
it anyway. I'm not sure I'm patient enough to make effective use of volumetric
light sources very often.)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Began with a basic female Poser figure and changed the expression and pose. 
Used Ray Dream to change her body and legs to make her dress and add movement
to her hair (My first experimentation with Ray Dream.).  Also used Poser to
make the "minister."  Modelled the torches and water ripples and splashes with
sPatch.  The rain is a volumetric light source, and the torch flames are
separate light sources.  The terrains in the background were created in Bryce. 
Added signature and converted to jpg with PhotoPaint.

