TITLE: ColdLightWarmShadows
NAME: Alex Postma
COUNTRY: Netherlands
EMAIL: a.v.postma@amc.uva.nl
WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/soho/7499
TOPIC: Contrast
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: coldligh.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Real3d v3.53

RENDER TIME: 
    20 hours

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The contest subject was Contrast. That gives you quite a lot of freedom; for me
contrast ment flowing organic forms cast in hard steel/chrome playing on an
alien landscape. The overall impression I wanted to make with this picture is
that of contrast: steel, organic, light, shadow, soft, sharp. The title was
picked up from a poem I liked.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I just varied several tube and helical freeform objects until I got the overall
look I wanted. Lighten conditions were the result of experiments done in Bryce
and recreating it in Real3D. The hard shadows are done on purpose with
pointlights to get a contrast with the soft feel of the picture.         
Rendertime 20 hours on a P166 using Real V3.53, all textures are procedural
ones. Posteffect used was Fog, supersampling 3x3, lightsamples at 1.

