TITLE: Day After Day
NAME: Ian Witham
COUNTRY: New Zealand
EMAIL: ian_witham@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.topcities.com/cartoon/inkwell/
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: iwdad.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Megapov

TOOLS USED: 
    Oil and pastel on paper
         Scanner
         Paint shop pro 6
         Megapov
         Adobe Photo-deluxe

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A ship, 3D yet 2D. The kind of image that has always been conjured
in my head by the exerpt of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner which
accompanies this image.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Well I promised myself that I would finally submit an IRTC entry and I have.
Unfortunately the topic didn't exactly lend itself to my current talents
so I decided that doing something completely different was my best option.
I feel that this is a valid exploration of what can be achieved artistically
with POV, so hopefully my picture won't be judged too harshly!!

There are 5 image maps for the sea, sky, and boat.
Each of these uses the same image as a normal map to add some relief.

There are also 8 material maps, 5 of which are 2 bit masks of the
image maps plus 3 more for the text. No alpha channels here.

The max trace level needed to be turned up to see through all of those
invisible planes. I thought I was going mad when I added a text layer
and the sky disappeared :-)

I painted all of the components myself with oil paints and pastels.



