Borealis
This is my third entry into the IRTC. This round's topic was Night. Being a landscape kind of guy, I naturally had to create a nightscape... and mountains are a must. Mark, the guy who I've done the book covers for, suggested that I make a picture of an Aurora Borealis for his company's homepage. So, I experimented with various techniques and came up with a halo-filled height_field. It looked so good that I decided to add it to my IRTC entry at the last minute. I think it turned out rather well. The image placed 8th, out of 131 entries.
By the way, the forest in the foreground is actually another height_field with some sparse random noise spikes added to it. It is offset downward slightly from the 'snowy hills' height_field so only the 'trees' poke up through the snow. This effect works nicely if the image resolution is fairly low and nobody looks at it too closely. ;)
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Image AMerit TMerit CMerit Overall
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boreali1 14.162 14.108 14.108 14.1261
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Feathers McGraw
This was my second entry into the IRTC, for the September-November '97 Arts & Entertainment round. I didn't have enough time to work on this picture because of massive schoolwork, so I had to submit it 'as is'. It didn't perform well, placing 22nd out of 80 (or so) entries.
Feathers was modeled using sPatch, as was the chair and ottoman. The rest of the scene was modeled by hand, with the exception of the silhouette of the Techno-Trousers, which I drew (by hand) in Paint Shop Pro.
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