TITLE: Bonsai
NAME: Jeremy Bengtson
COUNTRY: U.S.A
EMAIL: spifferific@onebox.com
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: bonsaj.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender Unified Render

TOOLS USED: 
    Blender, GIMP 1.2

RENDER TIME: 
    1 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Compaq Presario, 700 Mhz AMD Duron w/MMX & 3DNOW, 370 MB RAM, and
8MB NVIDIA 
               VANTA LT.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I just can't figure out what is it that I like best about Asia.Could it be
the Language, in its beauty and its grace? Could it be its decorative motifs?
Could it be its
attempts to capture the beauty of nature in a smaller yet none the less precise
way? Argh, I 
can't seem to put my finger on it, its like the thing I'm trying to explain is
be behind a 
screen and that I can see it but just its shadow.... maybe you could give me
some input on 
what ever it is. 

DISCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
To make this Picture I held fast to the Blenderese maxim If you can't do it fake
it. The girl
behind the screen was fully colord but It seems that Blender can't do
transparent to shadows
yet opaque (i.e. like really thin curtians) so I cheated, only the foot at the
bottom is 
colored. Every thing else is standard things lke extrusion, point editing, ect.