TITLE: silent & dream
NAME: FeenX
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: feenxnt@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.multimania.com/feenx3d
TOPIC: The Wilderness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: afxdolph.jpg
ZIPFILE: afxdolph.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    3D Studio MAX 

TOOLS USED: 
    JPEG Optimizer Version 1.32

RENDER TIME: 
    3 hours 45 min 52 sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 480, 384Mo, TNT2 16Mo






IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

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I created all objects of this scene which contains more than 12.000.000 of
polygons (12.210.502 polygons)
  >



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

<Well...
First of all, I sought images of the sea on Internet (animals, vegetations,
environment, etc...) to make me an idea.
After having looked at these images, I started the second step :  The Modeling 
I created the ground and optimized the number of polygons not to choke my
computer, and I assigned various textures on it.  
Then I placed the 7 lights, configured them (color, multiplier, shadows,
attenuation...) (I rendered near 50 images to have a good illumination)
After accomplished that, I started creating the environment with : The sunlit
underwater surface, Caustic light projections on the underwater objects,
Volumetric light rays and the Bubbles effect)
I think, it's the most difficult step of this scene because, there are many
options which has to configure.
After, completed the underwater environment, I started the modeling/texturing of
dolphins, rocks and 2 types of vegetations.

So (Hop!) there's my image. >