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Member : DrNo

Title	:	On both sides
Name	:	Normand Brière
Country	:	Canada
Email	:	#############
Webpage	:	www.noware.ca
Topic	:	20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (September)
Copyright	:	Agreed - 2008-10-18 00:16:14
JPG file	:	pw-1223007435-onbothsides.jpg
Renderer Used	:	OpenGL (ARB program)
Tools used	:	Homemade Java software + GIMP for title and calibration
Render Time	:	25 + 5 seconds
Hardware Used	:	Macintosh Core 2 Duo, RadeonX1600

Image description

The story takes place on both sides of the sea's surface, as it takes place on both sides of the book's pages.

The book has illustrations to hold up the reader's imagination, and another outcome of the pencil is the script itself. A black-and-white illustration is not enough to fully describe the story, but the script brings it color and makes it real to the reader.

The presence of the pencil recalls that all of this is fiction, not reality. But where could be the fiction when emotions become real? Wherever the frontier between fiction and reality is, the reader's mind has to dive on both sides.

Description of how this image was created

This picture shows how the dream images turned into a nightmare.

"On both sides" stands for the exact opposite of "In Memory". In the first entry, we get into the story from reality, in the second one, we get into reality from the story.

The pencil looks real enough for us to grab it, but only old Jules Verne can. Is this the first meta-concept ever?

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Two steps were needed to achieve this entry. First I had to create the octopus scene which was added later on as a texture of a rectangle in the pencil scene. A black&white (sepia-like) version of the same image is faded from the center.

The octopus scene took 25 seconds to render, and the pencil scene took 5 seconds. I tried to reproduce some kind of old paper texture for the uncolored version.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	13
Min. overall rating	:	27 (9 / 9 / 9)
Max. overall rating	:	49 (15 / 16 / 18)
Sum of rating	:	535 / 780
Date uploaded	:	2008-09-20 23:27:08

Specific details

Note: The maximum value below is misleading as the voting system has changed.
If the member votes for all the entries and has created one him/herself, there is an
automatic 20/20/20 score added to the value (This encourages all members who enter to vote).

Rating type

Min

Max

Sum

Out of

Artistic

175

260

Concept

181

260

Technical

179

260

Overall

535

780

Comments by members when rating this image

1.	23-10-2008	Looks really good. Nice job. The people don't look all too peterbed by the guy being hauled off by the octopus... Mutany?
2.	20-10-2008	I like the overall concept, however I wonder if a more sepia-toned image with a full-colored pencil would not have been more interesting, almost more Jules Verne-like.
3.	20-10-2008	One of the best of this round. You achieved a complex scene with a lots of details, and an impressive way of exploring both ways (sides) of the sea/ congratulations
4.	18-10-2008	The hidden ideas are really cool which in my opinion makes this a really artistic piece.
5.	03-10-2008	What a difference a pencil and a different background story can make! Now that it's the picture of a picture, many shortcomings of the scene can be blamed on the pencil's owner :) Same goes for the achievements though =B) The paper texture could have been better I guess.