The LightWave Mailing List Contest
Hall of Fame


November 1996 - The Cliche


1st Place

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by Michael C. Ling
mikeling@nyc.pipeline.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mike_Ling/homepage.htm

Created and rendered on Lightwave 5.0, no plug-ins used. All objects, including the sky/starfield, were created from scratch as required by the rules of this contest.
This is an homage to a pair of Amiga classics, Boink! and the raytraced Juggler.
What I had in mind for my entry in the contest was to attempt to put a new spin on familiar designs.
The Amiga ball is now a globe with protruding and recessed panels of chrome and red marble. The protruding and recessed aspect of the panels were created by bevelling and re-bevelling the alternating polygon faces. In recreating the Amiga Boink ball, I learned something interesting. If I made the ball completely round it stopped looking like the Amiga Boink! ball; it would look like an ordinary beach ball.
The Juggler inspired look-alike uses a slightly different design from the original one by Eric Graham(?). The original Juggler was entirely made up of colored non-textured mapped balls. In this version the Juggler sports an artdeco-ish set of ribbed limbs and torso, all of which is heavily texture mapped. The ribbed look of the limbs and torso was achieved by smooth shifting, sometimes twice. About the textures, I wanted it to look like poor old juggler has been outdoors too long, as though he had been continously juggling balls outdoors since 1987.
BTW: the balls the original juggler used were reflecting chrome balls, whereas these are refracting and reflecting crystal balls.
The scene used no bitmaps for its textures. Everything was procedural textures layered on one another. The only raytracing used were reflections and refraction. Raytraced shadows for some reason cast unwanted shadows on several key places.
2nd Place

The Reflector
by Marvin Landis
marvinl@amber.rc.arizona.edu

Amiguy retired from 3D cybersports over 7 years ago. But on a recent visit to his favorite park, he was caught reflecting on past accomplishments during his morning tea time. There is plenty of chrome, wood, marble, brick and checkerboard patterns at the park, and Amiguy brought his teapot and a torus or two (or three) to help him feel right at home. Old time Amiga users might recognize memories of BoingThrows, Doctor_A, Gymnast, and WaveSailing. (Amiguy and his memories were originally created with Sculpt3D, the rest of the objects are all pretty simple and were created with Lightwave specifically for this flashback to the '80s).
3rd Place

by David Ballesteros
dballes@bitmailer.net

The image was made with a set of primitives and Metanurbs (the hands). I made it with an illustration concept on mind. The image was did with LW 5.0 in a P133 with 64Mb RAM and took 1h 30m aproximately to render. I did the textures in Picture Pubisher 6.0 and other textures are procedurals from LW 5.0.

 


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