TITLE: Sharks
NAME: Stephane Bourzeix
COUNTRY: FRANCE
EMAIL: bourzeix@francenet.fr
WEBPAGE: http://stephane.bourzeix.free.fr
TOPIC: Wilderness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: shark.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender 1.7

TOOLS USED: 
    Blender 1.7

RENDER TIME: 
    A few minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 400


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


This is my third attempt to send an image for the IRTC, and the first time
that I managed to finish it ! :-)

So this is "Sharks" :

As always, and as everybody, I was searching for an idea for this round, when
I saw that TV program talking about "wildlife", where I saw two photographers
dive to save a "great white" shark trapped in a cable they were using. They
cut the cable and carry the shark to the shore and help him to get back to the
ocean. They were manipulating this "killer" with their arms, in the water with
him, with no protections. These were the most incredible and beautiful images
I ever saw.
This is my tribute to this shark, back in the wilderness.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Everything is done on a Pentium II, with a Linux Mandrake 6.1 OS. All modeling
and rendering was done using Blender (http://www.blender.nl). The jpeg,
resizing, and copyright adding were done under the Gimp.

The shark was found on Internet (at Michael's
http://centralsource.com/blender/files.htm), deformed and adapted using
lattice deformation. It was then duplicated, and deformed again, even if we
don't see it so much. The texture is a "secret".

The "sun through water" light effect was done using a spot light through a
half-sphere with "holes" for the rays. There is also a lot of lights
everywhere around the scene.

The ground was made using "Fract subd" and then by hand to achieve the work.
The texture was made from a "marble" one, to try to produce the underwater
ground effect.

