TITLE: Tomorrow's Highway
NAME: Ryan Twitchell
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: tryan2@rochester.rr.com
TOPIC: Epic Proportions
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rtscale.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender 2.33

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop CS, Poser 4, 3DS Import script.

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Tired of traffic congestion, redlights, smog, *pedestrians*? So are we! That's
why your tax dollars are now going to use creating the biggest highway ever! So
now you can get to where you need to go in a hurry and get out of the Earth's
nasty, smoggy air quicker!
Paid for by The Cement the Planet Foundation.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I knew an idea of this magnitude would be just impossible to do in a month (I
started late), and I didn't want to spend long hours modeling lots of cars, so
all the vehicles in the foreground and midground are borrowed (see below). For
the most part the scene is elementary composition. Getting a decent feeling for
the scale of this huge road was tricky. I wanted a hitchiker who was truly
small, lost along the side of the road, cars zipping by. It took a lot of
camera adjustments and playing with road size to get a decent feeling.
Originally I started working in POV-Ray, but decided about a week in (3 weeks
left) to switch to Blender. This made texturing and layout a lot easier. (But I
still lov POV)

CREDIT DUE:
Bob Holcomb and Richard L_rk_ng for their 3Ds Import script for Blender.
Thanks to the following people for their vehicle models (and making my life a
lot easier). I am not sure if I used all the models listed.
Tiago Carita of 3Dimension for lots - gasa.dcea.fct.unl.pt/carita
3DCafe people for a lot - www.3dcafe.com
Montree Termrattanasirikul of Smoke3dStudio for the BMW 325 -
www.smoke3dstudio.com
Ali Fayez of Ali3D for the BMW M5 - www.ali3d.8m.com
Laurid Meyer of www.3dGDF.com for the Dodge Vieper RT10
Chris Robinson for the Ford Explorer
Forward Design for the 57 Chevy - www.forwarddesign.com
3DHeaven for the Bus and Hummer - www.3dheaven.net

