TITLE: Time for lunch
NAME: Jean-Michel Dupuis
COUNTRY: FRANCE
EMAIL: jmd@marcireau.fr
WEBPAGE: www.multimania.com/yngwie/Entree.htm
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lunchtim.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Vue d'Esprit 3.01-01

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhinoceros Demo 1.0, UVMapper 0.22b, Poser 3.0, Photoshop 5.0

RENDER TIME: 
    4 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 300 Mhz - 128 Mb ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Well, I went last summer to the new house of one of my friends, and, oh, this
guy has dig a wonderful little pond with all these plants species. I was very
impressed how the animals & especially frogs has take possession of the place :
i have the chance to saw one of those animals capturing a dragonfly ; it was so
pleasant that i decided one day i'll do a pic in Vue d'Esprit to restitute this
windy & peaceful atmosphere : the IRTC gave me the occasion ! 
At last, it will be my dream garden...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This pic started with the Poser 3 bullfrog. Since the original texture wasn't
what i was searching, i made one with Photoshop and the same thing happen for
the frog's eyes. The dragonfly was on the Vue d'Esprit CD (but I guess it cames
from Zygote's) : texture done in Photoshop too. Mapping applied precisely for
the 2 animals with the (great) tool UVMapper.

Then i've done the modeling of all the others objects in Rhino : butterfly,
rocks, water lillies and the closure. All textures done in Photoshop except for
the rocks and the lillies which have procedurals materials. The butterfly
texture came from a magazine (for scientists, it's a Danaus plexippus - an
american butterfly -).

The tree & the plants were generated using Vue d'Esprit's powerful internal
vegetation generator.
The terrain objects were created using the Vue's height field generator. Plants
& terrains are using procedurals materials except for the dead tree which has a
photo texture coming from Serious 3d.
Water is an infinite plane with procedural material.

Sky & clouds are procedurals (2 different layers for clouds) and the light is
provided by the sun ; it's coming from top, when the sun is at it's zenith,
when it's time for lunch...

N.B : copyright, signature & logo were put in Photoshop ; conversion to JPEG
file by Microsoft Photo Editor.


