TITLE: "A King's Nightmare"
NAME: Jon Kristjan Kristinsson
COUNTRY: Iceland
EMAIL: bigjko@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Dreaming
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: k_nightm.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio Max R4

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro 7.04

RENDER TIME: 
    approx. 3 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    1,2 GHz Athlon / 256 MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I don't know what I can say about this picture, other than it is a king's
nightmare expressed with 
chess-board players.  What's being expressed?  A revolution, the pawns are the
civilians revolting 
against the king.  The red light is to establish the nightmare factor of the
picture and the fact 
that you can't see anything that the king's not seeing establishes the dream
factor, you're exper-
iencing this, kind of, from the king's eyes, or mind.  Okay, enough with my
artistic thoughts. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Chess players are made with lines and then lathed around the Y axis, then
subdivided a bit.  Added 
wood textures to the players, black and white-ish, and i'm done with them.  Then
added a spotlight 
above them, creating the 'see only what the king sees' effect.  And ending with
two red lights, 
creating the dark, death-like atmosphere, which is representing the nightmare
factor.  Myself, I 
think i've progressed a bit since my last submitted picture, Glaciers, and I
hope you make constructive
comments again like you did last time.  They helped me a lot in improving my
skills.

