TITLE: Mount Sinai
NAME: cb fields
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: cb@fieldsvht.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.fieldsvht.com
TOPIC: worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mount_si.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Strata 3D Raytracer

TOOLS USED: 
    Photo Deluxe, Poser 2.0,True Space 1, Teragen, Asymetrix Web 3D

RENDER TIME: 
    final render 2hrs 39 min. @ 800x600 64 bit

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 266, Viper 550 16M video

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    The original concept came to me almost immediately after
learning the current topic of worship, the end result was many hours yet to
come.Striving for accuracy, I refered of course to the Bible learning the event
took place in the morning with the entire mountain covered in smoke ,
lightening and flames.I even created an image according to this, sat back and
realized people would have a hard time recognizing this scene.Restarted the
project using the more recognizable icon of the flaming bush, although no
mention of it, is in my Bible.I did try to retain the "feel" of everything else
I could.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Strata 3d is wonderful ! If you
havent seen this software yet you are really missing out...it allowed me to
take images of the real My Sinai and surrounding scenery, manipulate some .bmp
texture maps and come up with accurate 3d models to represent the
setting.Teragen created, as it always does a great 3d sky which I mated to an
actual scenery shot from the top of Mt Sinai, for the background.A free version
of  Poser 2.0  provided the Moses character and some free-form modeling in
again an old version of True Space 1  his robes, hair and beard.Asymetrix Web
3D created staff, title,and signature models.I used Photo Deluxe (alias Photo
Shop  with a better user interface) to manipulate textures and .bmps for
importing, then spent around 40 hours  tweaking textures and lighting
effects.Absolutely no post production was done except to convert from .bmp  to
.jpg.