EMAIL:chrisann@wanadoo.fr
NAME:Anne Monti
TOPIC:Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE:entomo.jpg
TITLE:Entomologie
COUNTRY:France
WEBPAGE:http://www.3dluvr.com/chrisann/
RENDERER USED:3ds Max7
TOOLS USED:3ds max 7
RENDER TIME:30 minutes
HARDWARE USED:P4 3,4GHz - 1GB Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
I wanted to do a big catastrophe but there are too many catastrophes on the earth so I decided to make my catastrophe on other worlds.
I began my picture thinking an insects invasion but, in my pic I wanted that you don't know if the insects are actors or only watchers.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I began with environnement; I use a displacement map on a plane.I worked on the texture of the montains (it's a fractal I made) and on the lights (there are around 30 lights)
I wanted a surreal atmosphere so I added fog and some volumetric fogs.The sky is a skydome with a gradient map and volumetric lights and fogs.I prefer that because you have more control.
To have a surreal effect like I wanted, I made a big contrast between the foreground and the background, (playing with the lights)
After I modeled (polygone modeling) and textured the insects (criquets: I don't know if it's the right word in english).Then I modeled and textured the "city". (primitives and splines and loft)
I added particules systems and  smokes.