TITLE: X-mass Lights

NAME: Joe Monahan

COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: jmonahan@netzone.com

WEBPAGE: http://www.netzone.com/~jmonahan/small.html

TOPIC: Lights

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

JPGFILE: xmass.jpg

RENDERER USED: Alias Studio

TOOLS USED: Alias Studio, Photoshop to create some textures



RENDER TIME: approximately 48 hours



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This scene was to depict the view one might expect under a christmas tree.

I tried to pay attention to the atmosphere created by the lights as well as

the lights                                                     themselves. I

thought it should look warm and fuzzy.





DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The scene was modeled, textured and rendered in Alias. Note however that

the shapes are simple - many are tapered cylinders, extruded circles or

stretched cubes. The out of focus tree branches were actually modeled but

could have been image planes, i.e textures mapped onto simple plane

geometry. The geometry could have been created with less expensive software

and  the texture maps built up in Photoshop (or some such).  If the image

has any impact at all, it would be a result of careful lighting used to

create a sense of atmosphere.

The lights themselves are just short lengths of linear lights surrounded by

relatively thick glass to provide the refraction and the depth of

transparency we see in such small lights.  Obviously the lights are more or

less out of focus, but hopefully add the warm glow that this scene called

for.











