I was trying to explain to my wife about how I like a cool, 3D cartoony look. She said, "You mean Wallace and Gromit?"   I said, "YES!"  I think that Nick Park had more to do with my interest in raytracing more than did Jurassic Park or Lawnmower Man.  Consequently, while there will always be a few great perfectly photorealistic entries at the top of the heap, I like images that look like a frame from a Nick Parks film.

Restating my advice to Nieminen, if one were to say to Nick Parks the words, "Cow in a bathtub," he'd come up with a pretty neat looking image: can you imagine it? And someone who can duplicate the fun of Park's work with raytracing will in my heart get a higher score than all but the utmostly photorealistic images.

Guillermo Espitia Rojas wrote:

Hi Greg:

I am the author of ge_first. I believe that the commentaries of the judges
would have to be ample and deep, like his; although in this case I am the
victim.    :-(

Consider the following thing. The human figures are very difficult to model
with Pov-Ray. With Spatch something can be done better, but it continues
being difficult; the work is very long and tedious. I do not believe that I
repeat the experience. You consider that the modeled one of human figures is
not common in the IRTC (exception Lorenzo Quintana, Anto Matkovic, and Gena
Obukhov). I hope that it is evident that my " baby " is not Poser.

Excuses by my English and thanks for its attention.

Guillermo Espitia
Bogotá, Colombia