TITLE: "Glacier Sky" NAME: Jon Kristjan Kristinsson COUNTRY: Iceland EMAIL: bigjko@hotmail.com TOPIC: Winter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: glaciers.jpg RENDERER USED: 3D Studio Max R4 TOOLS USED: Photoshop RENDER TIME: approx. 2 min HARDWARE USED: 1,2 GHz Athlon / 256 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The first thing I normally see when I look out the window is snow. When I look closer I see that the snow is covering a mountain. It's not hard to get inspired with wintery ideas when you live in Iceland. Unfortunately I was completely dry of ideas when I started thinking about this, so I decided to go with the typical snow-man. You'll most likely notice the simplicity of the image. There are two reasons for that. I am a beginner in the field of 3D art and therefore tried keeping it simple the first few times. Second, I felt making it simple would express the cartoony feel of a snow-man better than having it photo-realistic. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The glaciers are just a plane that's been pulled up into mountains. The snow-man is as simple as it can get, three spheres, eyes, nose and some buttons. You all know that, we were all kids once. For the sky I chose a swirl texture to create a better cartoony mood. Used a couple of omni lights, one with shadow projection, and I'm set. Simple, eh? Just take it easy on me, I'm a new-comer.