The wet bird
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2019-11-14 05:36
This image won the March-April 2000 round of the Internet Ray-Tracing Competition, with the topic “City”
There are many city pictures in Oyonale. Cities are a favourite subject of mine, so that the IRTC “City” topic was somehow perfect.Too perfect actually, because it came at a time when I was of tired of making urban pictures. I didn’t want to make another “something strange happens here” picture, or model another building. I wanted fresh ideas that would involve the use of new techniques.
Of course, even with the city as the main attraction, the image still lacked concept. The Megapov documentation provided the solution: because meshes can be copied (almost) endlessly, they?re good candidates for motion blur. So here it was: the picture would be about New York (actually a fantasy twin), and it would involve a motion-blurred character. Since motion blur is primarily a photographic effect, it was another excuse to make the picture highly realistic. The character could be a ghost from the past : a human being, like a XIXe century lady, or even an animal. I briefly ran experiments with a deer, but I decided that I had made enough of “animals in the city” pictures. The character also could be a simple, hurried passer-by. In fact, I’m still not sure of what the blurred character really is.