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