TITLE: Caged Chicken
NAME: Marlo Steed
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: marlo.steed@uleth.ca
TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cgdchckn.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Lightwave

TOOLS USED: 
    Knot Plot & Lightwave

RENDER TIME: 
    12 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Powerbook G4

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Caged chicken?  Well you may not see it but that is one interpretation. 
Depending on your gestalt, you may see something totally different.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The cage object was created with KnotPlot (freeware).  The Knot was then
imported into Lightwave - I took one knot and cloned and resized it multiple
times then mirrored it.  The interior object (yea the chicken) was a number of
primitives that were distorted in bizarre ways that gives it a strange
feather-like look (well at least that is what I see).  The stalagmite looking
structures (top and bottom) was a simple plane that was subdivided then
painstakingly beveled (magic bevel) each structure to give it unique natural
look (then replicated the plane and welded the result (had to totally redo it
because the first time I missed the seams  and  they showed up on the render). 
There is an area light in the middle and two spot lights to either  side, then
three lights in behind the scene (sun, glow and fog).  The textures were a
series of gradients with procedural bump maps (with fresnel affect).  The
textures and lights seemed to take forever to tweak.

