TITLE: Mountain Fly By .
NAME: Chris Bunker
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: timbunker@eclise.co.uk
TOPIC: Imaginary worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mount.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Stratavision 3d v.4

TOOLS USED: 
    Extreme 3d, Photoshop 4, Epson GT-5000 scanner .

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hour 3 minutes and 0 seconds .

HARDWARE USED: 
    Macintosh Performa 5200 .

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I started this image wanting to create something similar to
the pseudo-landscapes (imaginary worlds) of the surrealist painter Max Ernst,
this colided with the book "Dune" and evolved from there .

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The Mountains where made by cutting
craters out of cones using a Boolean subtraction in Strata,  my first real
experiment with Boolean operations, it took six hours and I thought it my
machine had crashed  ;-) , I exported these as a DFX into Extreme 3d because I
prefer its modeller and tweaked into there final shape . This is also where I
created the castle on the centre Mountain out of simple cones and cylinders .
The Ornithopters where created separately in Extreme 3d . The background image
I painted then scanned into Photoshop for touching up and adding the clouds .
The mountains where then exported back into Strata for texturing with maps I
created in Photoshop . The background was set and this rendered in grey scale
due to RAM constraints . The Ornithopters where then imported into Strata and
textured . Because these are simpler models I was able to render in colour with
the grey scale Mountains set as a background image .