EMAIL: artur83@hotmail.com
NAME: Artur Tchoukanov
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Lost on the Great Silk Path
COUNTRY: Canada
RENDERER USED: Zbrush (high quality) renderer
TOOLS USED: ZBrush Demo, Rhino3d
RENDER TIME: 2.00 mins
HARDWARE USED: PentiumII, 350Mhz
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Since my country of origin is Kazakhstan, I heard all about the great Silk Path that runs through 
a major part of Asia, from China, to Europe through the middle. 
A chineese woman snuck some silk worms into her hair and exported them along that route.
in those time, silk exportation was done by China, and these was a prohibition on exporting the 
silk worms. 
This image illustrates one of those worms cocooned in the remains of what seems to be
a wooden frame, where they were usualy grown(then boiled)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I downloaded the Demo of ZBrush(which is an amazing tool) and started fooling around with it,
i did my Pre-Modeling with Rhino3d, but it's tough to get it rendered good, and a hassle to create organic shapes.
(I think I went a long way since my 1999 competition of Imaginary World transdes :-))