TITLE: Let's attack!

NAME: DECLE Fabrice
COUNTRY: France

EMAIL: decle@club-internet.fr
TOPIC: Still images (insects and spiders)
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: attack.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3DS MAX


TOOLS USED: 
    None


RENDER TIME: 
    About 5 min


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 200 MMX


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This image shows some ants attacking a pie during a pic-nic, which often
happens!!!



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This image was quite hard to do because everything was big, so I couldn't
"cheat", I had to create really detailled objects. Indeed, the scene was very
heavy...

        *The ants have been made from a tutorial. It is made of primitives
modified with FFD or EDIT MESH. The texture of the ant needed a lot of work,
because I wanted to gat a photo-realistic one.
So I've studied a lot of pictures and photos, I've observed a lot of real ants
and I've made my map. What makes realistic is bump mapping: I've used 3 bump
maps to create the ant's texture.

        * The tablecloth was made from a PATCH deformed. It was quite easy (even
if the result is not perfect, far from it...)

        *The grass was also made from a tut. It's easy to abtain this effect:
you only have to create a lot of objects...

        *The background is a simple map from a photograph.

        * The aluminium was hard to do because of the map: I've created the map
by studying a real aluminium paper... You only need to have a big shining a
reflexions.