EMAIL: hpparvi@netti.fi
NAME: Hannu Parviainen
TOPIC: Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Spring (Early)
COUNTRY: Finland
WEBPAGE: www.netti.fi/~hpparvi
RENDERER USED: Imagine (Imagine for windows & Dos 4)
TOOLS USED: Lparser, Leveller, IFW, ID4
RENDER TIME: 14 h 4 min 24 s
HARDWARE USED: P 133 mhz, 80 Mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
 Well, This is the first pic I´ve done for this contest, and I´m not sure what else should I
say than that I´m not very happy with this pic. I was too lazy doing the main model a bit
by bit so I ended doing the rest of the scene + texturing in 3 days and rendering it at night
before the deadline.

  White, black, and different shades of dark-green are the dominating colors (mostly because
those were only colors that you could see here when I was starting this pic ). There cant be seen
many details ( well, maybe that´s just realistic for a snow-everywhere scene... and dont ask how
did that "wolf" get there w/o any traces... It has just stayed put for a loong time ;) )   

 After that I could say some poor excuses like " It´s hard to concentrate doing winterscene when all that
you can see is green and midnight sun is shining into your eye " (hmm, think I just couldn´t leave 
that one out ^_^ ) " etc. etc. but I´d better stop this whining... now... (sniff)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

 Wolf was created in 5 different pieces in Imagine. legs (or whatever they are) were done by extruding
5-sided disk couple of times, and tweaking invidual points to shape a leg ( pictures of wolf from side- and
font views as an backdrop for guide ). Body was created same way and didn,t take very long time). Head
was modeled face by face, extruding edges and tweaking points (using Alex Choul´s head modeling tut as
reference), and took longest time to model (pretty stupid ´couse the head isn´t really even shown.). 
After I had every piece modeled I joined them, and made the object seamless using "set edge line"
and "fill to edge line" commands (every piece was made into a separate subgroup before this).
After this I fractured all the faces in the wolf and smoothed ´em twice.
 Texturing was done using 3 different brush-maps (1 for legs, 1 for head and 1 for body) and taking
the seams away with de-color textures (ok, I know it doesnt look very good tho... maybe even some small
bumps would´ve made it a bit better.).
 
 "Fir" was created with Lparser, but the original model really killed rendering time so I used big particles
with it and tried to save what could be saved with texturing.   

 Landscapes were done in Leveller and appliqued into 3 separate 50*50 planes. nearest one was sliced
with wolf-model and resulting 4 foot-"holes" merged w it, fractured nearest faces & smoothed ´em to create
the look that those feets were sunken to snow (leftover pieces were swapped with original wolf). 
Textured w Imagine´s textures ( mostly mountaintop, De- family, noise bump, and dirt. )