EMAIL: jbrown@ananzi.co.za NAME: John Brown TOPIC: Loneliness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Understanding COUNTRY: South Africa WEBPAGE: N/A RENDERER USED: 3dsmax4 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro and a max plugin (Finalrender) RENDER TIME: approx. 15 minutes HARDWARE USED: AMD Duron 800MHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Being alone is being away from those who understand you. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: It was a fairly simple scene to create. I modified an existing face model I had to smooth out the features on the head, like the mouth, eyes and ears. I copied the model and placed it randomly throughout the scene. I placed the same texture on every model, except for the black material on one of them. The sky in the background is just a plane with a few mixed noise maps applied to it. I also added a Film Grain and Color Balance (tinting the colours slightly yellow) Render Effect in Max and increased the gamma, contrast and brightness a little in PSP.