TITLE: Entomologie
NAME: Anne Monti
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: chrisann@wanadoo.fr
WEBPAGE: http://www.3dluvr.com/chrisann/
TOPIC: Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: entomo.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3ds Max7

TOOLS USED: 
    3ds max 7

RENDER TIME: 
    30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    P4 3,4GHz - 1GB Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I wanted to do a big catastrophe but there are too many catastrophes on the
earth so I decided to make my catastrophe on other worlds.
I began my picture thinking an insects invasion but, in my pic I wanted that you
don't know if the insects are actors or only watchers.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I began with environnement; I use a displacement map on a plane.I worked on the
texture of the montains (it's a fractal I made) and on the lights (there are
around 30 lights)
I wanted a surreal atmosphere so I added fog and some volumetric fogs.The sky is
a skydome with a gradient map and volumetric lights and fogs.I prefer that
because you have more control.
To have a surreal effect like I wanted, I made a big contrast between the
foreground and the background, (playing with the lights)
After I modeled (polygone modeling) and textured the insects (criquets: I don't
know if it's the right word in english).Then I modeled and textured the "city".
(primitives and splines and loft)
I added particules systems and  smokes.