Email: tmcdonou@bucksnet.bciu.k12.pa.us
Name: Thomas McDonough (aka the Factman)
Topic: Summer
Copyright: I submit to the standard raytracing competition copyright.
Renderer Used: Bryce2
Tools: Infini-D for plant models, Poser for figures and Bryce 2 for terrains and final rendering
Render Time: 13.8 hours
Hardware: Macintosh 660 AV accelerated to 66mHz.
Image Description: A surreal scene. Full title is "wet summer dream"
Description of process: The general landscape was first set up in Bryce 2. Textures and a sky were put together on Bryce to get a set up for the scene. A figure was composed in Poser then imported and copied into the sky. One lone figure was placed in the water.
The figure in the water was given the same texture as the water. The foreground plants - cattails, lilly pads and weeds were modeled in Infini-D2.6 then exported as DXF objects. The distant trees were pictures mapped onto transparent planes. The last addition to the scenes were the stones made within Bryce 2.  The entire model was 39 million polygons and with the reflection from the water and with the refraction through the sky figures the scene rendered quite slowly. 

The scene file and textures were over 10 megs so I did not want to take the time to upload with my slow modem.