TITLE : Time for lunch
NAME: Jean-Michel Dupuis
COUNTRY: FRANCE
EMAIL: jmd@marcireau.fr
WEBPAGE: www.multimania.com/yngwie/Entree.htm
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE : Lunchtim.jpg
RENDERER USED: Vue d'Esprit 3.01-01
TOOLS USED: Rhinoceros Demo 1.0, UVMapper 0.22b, Poser 3.0, Photoshop 5.0
RENDER TIME: 4 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 300 Mhz - 128 Mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Well, I went last summer to the new house of one of my friends, and, oh, this guy has dig a wonderful little pond with all these plants species. I was very impressed how the animals & especially frogs has take possession of the place : i have the chance to saw one of those animals capturing a dragonfly ; it was so pleasant that i decided one day i'll do a pic in Vue d'Esprit to restitute this windy & peaceful atmosphere : the IRTC gave me the occasion ! 
At last, it will be my dream garden...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This pic started with the Poser 3 bullfrog. Since the original texture wasn't what i was searching, i made one with Photoshop and the same thing happen for the frog's eyes. The dragonfly was on the Vue d'Esprit CD (but I guess it cames from Zygote's) : texture done in Photoshop too. Mapping applied precisely for the 2 animals with the (great) tool UVMapper.

Then i've done the modeling of all the others objects in Rhino : butterfly, rocks, water lillies and the closure. All textures done in Photoshop except for the rocks and the lillies which have procedurals materials. The butterfly texture came from a magazine (for scientists, it's a Danaus plexippus - an american butterfly -).

The tree & the plants were generated using Vue d'Esprit's powerful internal vegetation generator.
The terrain objects were created using the Vue's height field generator. Plants & terrains are using procedurals materials except for the dead tree which has a photo texture coming from Serious 3d.
Water is an infinite plane with procedural material.

Sky & clouds are procedurals (2 different layers for clouds) and the light is provided by the sun ; it's coming from top, when the sun is at it's zenith, when it's time for lunch...

N.B : copyright, signature & logo were put in Photoshop ; conversion to JPEG file by Microsoft Photo Editor.