EMAIL: libelle@webbwerks.com
NAME: Samuel J. Goldstein
TOPIC: Summer
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Strata StudioPro/Blitz 1.75+ Raytracer
TOOLS USED: Strata StudioPro/Blitz 1.75+ Modeller
RENDER TIME: 00:14:02
HARDWARE USED: PowerMac 8500/120 with 48M RAM, 30M Virtual RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Well, when it's Summer where I live, it's Winter in New Zealand. Still,
in the spirit of Summer, the penguins go to the beach for picnics.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The ice flow was a pict file that was created in Photoshop, then extruded
and hand-tweaked in the vertex editor.

The penguins started as spheres [!], that were hand-modified in the
Strata bezier editor. This proved much more difficult than it should have
been, and you can see the results are fairly mediocre. The feet, beaks, eyes,
and flipper/wings were added on after a penguin texture map (drawn in
Photoshop) was wrapped around the body.

Some of the textures are NOT original:
- the water texture comes with Strata.

I'd be happy to share the model file with anyone who requests it.
___Samuel___