TITLE: Insect Anger
NAME: Justin Higgins
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: jhiggins@mooseworld.net
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Insects
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bees_jh.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    Blender 2.12


TOOLS USED: 

    GIMP (for textures and final resize + signature)


RENDER TIME: 

    approx. 1 hour.


HARDWARE USED: 

   733mhz piii 256mb RAM (Debian Linux 2.4.5)



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


When I was a kid there there was this bee hive down the bottom of our garden...
Ok, so there wasn't, but if there was, I would've shot it with my
slingshot...if I'd had one, which I didn't...but you get the idea. That's the
basic scenario for this image.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


For my last entry into IRTC I used blender to do the modelling and megapov for
the actual render with textures because I couldn't get the kind of lighting and
textures I wanted with blender.

For this scene I've used blender for everything, I'm still not happy with using
a scanline renderer for everything, but it really makes tweaking things much
easier and I think any advantage I would have gained with povray are out
weighed by the ease of use of blender.

The tree, flowers, grass and bush type things are all stolen from 3dcafe.com,
I've used the GIMP to make a texture for the tree bark from some photos of tree
bark I had.

Everything else in the image I modelled with either Nurbs or Meshes, I use 8 low
level area lights for ambient light and one bright spot light to simulate the
sun. 

The bees are a particle field of meshes with painted textures, they are animated
in the actual scene and that's what I use to do the motion blur (blender does
this for me, no post processing here, move along).

I am most happy with the grass for this image, it's worth having squillions of
mesh objects in the image just to get the effect it produces, it will also look
good when I get around to animating this image. 

I am not happy with the way a lot of the textures look and as such I've tried to
hide behind motion blur and fog as per usual.

I have not included my .blend file for this scene as it is around 17mb zipped,
but anyone who wants a copy for whatever reason is quite welcome to email me
and I will arrange for you to have a copy.









