TITLE: Thomas Edison NAME: Mario Russo COUNTRY: Brazil EMAIL: mrussoart@yahoo.com TOPIC: Great Inventions COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: edison.jpg RENDERER USED: Mental Ray TOOLS USED: 3dsmax 6, Photoshop, Shag Fur RENDER TIME: 1 hour 2 minutes 35 sec HARDWARE USED: P4 2.8Ghz, 1Gb RAM, Quadro FX 500 DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used a well know photo of Thomas Edison for this picture and tried to re-create it in 3D in exact pose and scene and light conditions, I used a bit of shag fur. The hair is an alpha map with 100elf ilumination set to white. I also used camera Depht of Field to blur the background a little bit and rendered with some grain to get an old effect. Total of 16 lights used