TITLE: Industrial Ruin
NAME: Stefan Groh
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: sgroh@gmx.de
WEBPAGE: www.stevies.megapage.de
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: ind_ruin.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio Max 2

TOOLS USED: 
    3D Studio Max, Corel PhotoPaint

RENDER TIME: 
    approx. 30 min.

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel PIII 500, 196MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

There was this image of a typical, abendoned industrial building with big fans
spooking around in my mind for quite a while. I used to work on this picture
just for fun. Then it happened that I once again took a look on the IRTC
webpage and I discovered that the idea I was working on would fit the current
topic, so I spent more and more time working on the image. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

First, of course, I started doing a rough drawing of the scene - on paper, with
a pencil... ;-)
I used 3D Studio Max for modelling and texture mapping. The motion blur effect
of the fans and all the volumetric lighting was also rendered by Max. I used
the plugin 'Particle Combustion' for the steam above the drain. The glowing of
the lights was done by the video-post-effect 'Glow+'.
The signature and the danger-sign on the left wall were made using PhotoPaint
9.