TITLE: It_s time
NAME: Robert Magano
COUNTRY: Western Germany
EMAIL: Robert.Magano at hamburg.de
WEBPAGE: http://steeltown.piranho.com (under construction)

TOPIC: Surrealism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: its_time.jpg
ZIPFILE: its_time.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Poser, PoseRay, PhotoImpact for converting to .jpg
Fonts by http://www.pizzadude.dk and http://www.uyc.nu
"Steeltown"-Font by: Dan Zadorozny, http://www.iconian.com/


RENDER TIME: 
    1 h 2 min.

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 533


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

In a dark Age, the last Robot on Earth walks over the Planet, avoiding Places
where he can be seen by Humans, hiding, searching, restless. Awaiting the Day
when his Energy Pack will be empty. But Destiny has other Plans than throwing
him on a scrap yard ...

This is my first IRTC Picture. As I read the Topic, first Thing that cames to my
Mind was "do we all understand the same when saying 'Surrealism'?" I guess: no.
But besides all Differences between "surrealistic" Artists, there are a few
Things in common. One of them are Dreams/Subconsciusnes or the Content of
Dreams/Subconsciusnes, followed by the Combination of realistic, but irrational
Things (real Things in irrational Landscapes, real Scenes with irrational
Components), another one is the Appearence of Death, however and wherever.

So I decided to combine this and let appear the Death in an completely
irrational Scene with an irrational Purpose. I made this Picture for Fun,
without any "hidden Message", so anybody may interprete it (or not) as he
likes.

One of the Things I worried about all the Time during the Creation of the Scene,
was the Text String because I was afraid it would look too much comic-like. But
finally I thought if it can_t stand it, it is not surrealism ;-)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The Death and his Cat are Poser Characters transformed with PoseRay and I wish
to thank FlyerX for his Support. The Tree is made with Gilles Tran_s Treemacro.
All other Things in the Scene are mostly CSG. A few Isosurfaces are placed in
the Background, but not visible because finally the Foreground Objects took to
much Space. Also the Bumps in the Robots Body are Isosurfaces. The Robot itself
is a fully IK-able CSG Object. The Cables (Wires?) in the right leg are small
Sphere Sweeps. The Newspaper is a bicubic patch. The Graffitis are image maps
placed on the Walls. The biggest Problem was the light, becuase I wanted the
Scene to have a depressive Atmosphere. But the more depressive it gets, the
darker it gets too :-( I solved this (partially) by using lots of Light groups.
Hope You will enjoy it!

Rm

