TITLE: Concert
NAME: Luca Pinciani
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: sinistar@iol.it
WEBPAGE: http://www.realillusions.net
TOPIC: Music
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: concert.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender internal

TOOLS USED: 
    Blender and Paint Shop Pro (to convert the image to JPEG format)

RENDER TIME: 
    about 7 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1.80 GHz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I wanted to represent one of the moments in which the music is protagonist. But
the music can't be trasmitted by an image!
My image represents a small concert, but to pay attention to the real
protagonist ot the image (the music), I replaced each
person (all the musicians and all the public) with one of the universal
iconography of the music: the musical note.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The biggest problem I tackle, was about the creation of the atmosphere in the
room. First of all, I used the Ambient Occlusion
not too high (in fact, there is (intentionally) a sort of noise in the image).
Furthermore, I set the three spots that illuminate
the room as volumetric lights. Doing some tests, I also decided the right
position and the right color of the three spots.
I also decided to add a big mirror on the wall because I thought it was a good
expedient to make appear the room bigger.
At last, the notes that compose the pubblic of the concert, are simply copies
(shallow links) of few types of notes. Using the
technique of dupliverts was worst, in this case. For the notes, I used a low
subsurf because they are a lot, and with an high subsurf
the render will take to much time.

