TITLE: Nightmare
NAME: Levi Woods
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: fractalgraphics@home.com
WEBPAGE: www.fractal-graphics.com
TOPIC: Insects and Spiders
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: btabirtc.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio Max 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    2.5 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dual celeron 400

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I wanted to portray a realistic creature in an actual setting, i choose my
bedside table because it's probably the last place i would like to see a giant
beetle like this. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

First and foremost was research. I went down to the local library and got out
about 15 books on insects and spiders. I sat down and read. When i was finished
going through all the books i sat down decided that i wanted to model a beetle.
I played with a bunch of techniques and found that building the splines and
surfacing them with patches was the best way for me to obtain the desired
effect. (it also allows me to change the face value and make the little guy way
fewer faces) once i was finished the model i didnt' know where to put him. One
night in the middle of the night i glanced over at my bedside table and there
was a sock sitting there. It looked like a huge bug. That's when i decided to
put the beetle on my table. I grabbed my digital camera took a snap shop and
then started modelling. The phone the clock are both fairly highly detailed
objects while the lamp and table are both pretty basic. I played with the
lighting a lot trying to create an even radiosity on the walls and making the
light look like it's coming from the lamp. a few reflections and a image of a
room projected onto the entire scene to give it a little more realism. The
textures were all created from scratch, the phone maps were painted in
photoshop and the clock and table maps were scanned/digitally photographed and
then touched up in photoshop. the clock has an extra map (self illumination)
for the digital display. The beetles maps were painted directly in photoshop.