TITLE: Myth NAME: Mario Russo COUNTRY: Brazil EMAIL: mrussoart@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: http://www.mrussoart.hpg.com.br TOPIC: Mythology COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: myth.jpg RENDERER USED: 3dsmax Default Scanline TOOLS USED: 3dsmax 5, Shag hair Illustrator, Photoshop RENDER TIME: 19min 37s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz HT, 1Gb RAM dual DDR 400, nVidia QUADRO FX 500 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: For Idea concept I mixed some elements of past cultures like Roman Empire and Greek Mythology and a bit of traditional RPG elements, Dungeons and so on. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: All the modelling job was done in 3dsmax, then I ajusted the lights and textures I was trying to extract the best from the default scanline because it_s pretty fast, so I spent a lot of time on configuration of lights and rendering tests. I used also Shag:Hair for the feather of the captain_s helmelt and reactor cloth for his cloth,. I used Illustrator to make the shield bump map and Volumetric Light for the blue fog up the monster. for Post correction I used a bit of contrast to improve a little bit the dramatic effect and to add the credits text. Ah, I resized the image to fit 250k requirements to enter the competition, original size is 5183x3965. That_s it. :)