TITLE: God's Power
NAME: Roman Sinik
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: the_saint8@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://dive.to/liquidmetal
TOPIC: Contrasts
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: godspow.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PoVRay 3.1 for Win

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray V3.1, Paintshop Pro, Creature Creator, 3DWin 3.0

RENDER TIME: 
    about 0 30 00

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 450


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I tried to catch the constrasts between the imagination of a good heaven and a
bad hell. The viewer is witness to God's hand reaching down from the heavens to
the Devil who is a lot smaller. This was done to show the discrepancy of power
between those two. What God is going to do is up to the viewer to decide. I
just created the movements of the Devil and God which are directed towards each
other as if they were measuring their powers.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I started off with creating the sky and the lava-lake and the different spires
in the lake. I used a heightfield for that. The clouds on the sky are partly
mixed with the blue and partly located on another sphere below the skysphere.
Then I created the figures with Creature Creator and smoothed them out.
Afterwards I textures them (a lot of work for God's hand). Then special f/x
were added like the fire and the glow around God's hand (media). The sparkles
around the hand were done with Chris Colefax' lens-flare plugin for Moray.

