TITLE: hiver
NAME: Yves LEJEAIL
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: lejeail.yves@freesbee.fr
WEBPAGE: http://membres.lycos.fr/chess3D/
TOPIC: winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: hiver.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    free softwares Vue d'esprit 2.1 (render), Amorphium 1.0
(modeler), Spatch (modeler) 

TOOLS USED: 
    PaintShopPro 7 to save in .jpg

RENDER TIME: 
    about 11 h

HARDWARE USED: 
    PIII 933MHz, 256 Mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Winter in an ancient time. But is seems this guy will never feel this cold
atmosphere !

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

At the beginning, I tried a classical winter scene. Then I add the idea to add
extra details,
like the skull, the sword, the barrel, the castle.
The castle is from nono's site http://membres.lycos.fr/adosnon/index.htm
The plants are from guitta's site  http://guitta.i.am/
Rock, Wood and Castle textures come from lemog's site
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lemog/lemog_textures/acc_textures01.html
The snow is a default material from Vue d'Esprit, but I have increased the
diffuse component
The sword and the barrel were created by me with spatch. The Rock was created in
Amorphium 1.
The fog is to create a cold a atmosphere. I also tried to give light and shadows
effect
on the foreground snow.
Vue d'Esprit settings are : 
- all shadows are blured for the materials
- all lights are soften at the maximum possible
- a small depth of field effect for the camera
These settings tend to increase the rendering time.