TITLE: Splash!
NAME: Carl Early
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: edi@home.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.home.net/edi
TOPIC: water
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ce_splas.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3DSMax scanline

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop for textures, Rhino for porpoise model, 3dsmax w/Splash
plugin for rendering and deformation

RENDER TIME: 
    21 min.

HARDWARE USED: 
    pentium pro dual 180MHz, 128Mb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    Porpoise jumping out of the water


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Porpoise was lofted in Rhino and side
view rendered.
This side render was used to develop texture and bump mapping in photoshop.
Model was imported into max 
where textures were mapped and scene was developed. A noise bump map and
automatic reflection map was applied to the water. A animated caustic was
projected on the sea floor and a short low-res animation was rendered a couple
times to tweak the splash parameters. Picked a frame that I liked, tweaked it a
lot, and rendered it full size.