TITLE: "Frozen Desert" NAME: Pierre-Yves Lafleur COUNTRY: Canada EMAIL: diablopy@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: None yet... TOPIC: Desert COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: frozen.jpg RENDERER USED: Bryce 5 TOOLS USED: Maxon Cinema 4D Poser 4 ACDSee 4.0 for the JPG conversion RENDER TIME: X hours HARDWARE USED: Pentium 4 1,7GHz, 256Mb SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The picture shows a man stuck alone in the middle of an icy ocean with nothing but his life saver. I had this idea when I went on a boat and looked around, seeing nothing but water. That's not the classic kind of desert but I found it even more empty than a regular sand desert. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This is a pretty simple picture since I didn't had much time to make it. First of all, I modeled the life saver in Cinema 4d and positionned the man in Poser 4 in order to show that he's holding the life saver tightly. Then, I exported everything in Bryce 5, which is a wonderful 3D landscaping software. So I made a dark rainy sky and an infinite water slab. The raindrops are negative objects grouped with the slab. For the icebergs, I used a highly reflective material which creates a very nice effect of sunlight bouncing off the ice. I spent the most time on adjusting the ice's material and the sky aspect, but the rest was pretty fast and simple. I didn't try anything else but I really recommend Bryce to create great landscapes and simple animations. It's an easy-to-use 3D application.