EMAIL:egarzon@mayo.com.ar
NAME:Agustin J. Garzon
TOPIC:Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: "Peace"

WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4161 Here is a              gallery with most my work, add the url of your page!

COUNTRY:Argentina

RENDERER USED: Max
TOOLS USED: Tree builder.
RENDER TIME: 4h 31min
HARDWARE USED:A p133 with 32mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Hope this image be clear. Just a landscape, pure, fresh, luminous. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
First, the trees, started from scratch with a tree builder for Max, I don't imagine positioning the thousands of leafs on the limbs, but the shapes of the trees were made by my hand. I made the roses with 3DSv4, with lofts, the mountains, aplying noise on a surface and smoothing the joints with the rest of the landscape. The squirrels! aren't they cute? they were made with balls deformed with Free form deformation modifiers, booleaned and later smoothed and textured. I painted the textures, the main is a road, invaded by the "Nature" (3D leafs, not maps,and animals). 
I decided use a high key ilumination, that's why the image has that exposition, tone, bright and high contrast. Most elements have high self-ilumination values, the lights have high contrast values, and the shadows are blurred and very attenuated. You may not see it, but there is a little of fog on the right-trees, coming from the bright of the sun, it's a volumetric light. 
Doesn't this image relax you? doesn't it make you feel in peace?
That's all, I won't send the file because it's 53mb.

TECH INFO:
Objects: 2902
Faces: 965918
Lights: 3
Swap file: 282 mb
2422 leafs in the ground with 140 faces each