TITLE: Giant Crystal BallJPGFILE: lbgcb.jpg


NAME: Larry Boston
COUNTRY: United States

EMAIL: elboston@mint.net
WEBPAGE: None

RENDER USED: MegaPOV 0.7


TOPIC: FANTASY AND MYSTIC
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
JPGFILE: lbgcb.jpg
TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Painter 6,Bryce 4 ,POSER 4,Crossroads,OBJuvPOV


RENDER TIME: 
    2 Hr


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 733, 128 RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

        The scene is kept basic as it was originally imagined in my head. I
looked at at
several complex dragon scenes and decided and decided that I would have to keep
mine very
basic in order to complete the scene on time. I originally was going to place a
crystal unicorn
on the inner ball,  but I didn't have time to try this approach. 
        

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        I didn't jump right on this topic so I started about one month after the
topic was announced.
The dragons took so long to construct that I was pushed to make the deadline and
couldn't make 
many variations on my original idea.
        The dragons were created entirely in POV. The body is a series of tori.
The dolphins on 
crystalball holder and the female warriors were converted from POSER 4 to POV
using
OBJuvPOV. The terrain was converted from Bryce to POV using crossroads.
The unicorn on the crystal ball was made by converting a horse from POSER and
adding a horn and 
creating a TGA file that was used an image map on a sphere. 
         I don't have much experience with POSER so I had difficulty moving the
arms 
into position for the archer. I declared the individual body parts of the
converted file
and repositioned them in POV. I just recently found the conversion files so I
was
pushed to the limit to complete this round.
        I used Painter 6 to create the TGA files for textures and to created the
JPG 
file. I didn't include a zip file because some of the include files are large. 



