Martin Conlon <mconlon@mae.carleton.ca>

Hi! Well I was worried that this wouldn't finish rendering, but the P60 pulled through for me.. ;)

Here are my vital stats:

Name: Martin J. Conlon

And a bit of info:

The image is called "Uphill Battle" -- the name I'm giving the "virtual sculpture" that's the focal point. I won't try to ruin the effect by explaining it... if you don't get it, mail me! ;)

The whole thing was modelled and rendered in Imagine. The maps were grabbed from various places on the 'net. There's no post-processing on the thing except for the framing and text addition.

The "sculpture" was created in the detail editor using the deform tool to make the "rocks." The I put some bones in it and distorted it to a variety of positions.

The floor and baseboards are image mapped. The picture frame uses the "wood" texture. The picture is by Denis Olivier (http://www.cyberstation.fr/~dolivier). He's one of my favourite raytracing artists.

The chair and the rug both use two "fuzzes" running in perpendicular directions to look like weave.

The "sculpture" uses "crumpled" and "fakely". The stands use "agate" and "fakely".

I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. Hope you like it.

See ya. -Martin

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