TITLE: Mountain Gorilla
NAME: Florian Wolper
COUNTRY: Germany (me); Kongo (the gorilla)
EMAIL: f.wolper@web.de
TOPIC: Wilderness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: gorilla.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Metacreations Bryce

TOOLS USED: 
    Metacreations Painter, Adobe Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    30 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 400 / 128 MB Ram, Wacom ArtPad (just to paint the
textures)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Wilderness; my first thought was: jungle. It took me just a few hours to create
this picture. But then I decided to create
another scene. Unfortunately I had not the time to finish it. So I submited this
picture of a jungle and the mountain 
gorilla. I personally do not like the position of the gorilla, but I did not
want to spend too much time in recreating
the scene (I have lost the original Bryce Savefile).

More inormation about the mountain gorilla is found here:

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/mgorilla/mgorilla.html
http://houck.salkeiz.k12.or.us/houck.website/cool.sites/sci/ESpecies/gorilla.html



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I do not like the Bryce plants. That is why I use just terrains. All you need is
to edit and rotate them. The textures
were painted with Painter 6 (I like the feature of automated jump from one side
to another to create endless 
textures). Then I created the alpha maps, imported my new textures to Bryce and
applied them on my mountains.

I used textures with a high amount of "noise". The final render was done with
the antialias option turned off, because 
it produces a too smooth picture.