TITLE: Jurassic
NAME: Lorenzo Quintana Juez
EMAIL: sequoia@teleline.es
WEBPAGE: http://www.terra.es/personal2/sequoia
TOPIC: The Wilderness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jurassic.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    Blue Moon Rendering Tools 2.4


TOOLS USED: 

    BMRT 2.4, Rib Tickler, Rhinoceros, MegaPOV, Corel Photo-Paint,
    Paint Shop Pro.


RENDER TIME: 

    1 hour


HARDWARE USED: 

    PII 350, 128MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A jurassic beach, 150 million years ago.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Some objects created with Rhino, some with POV (exported to
Renderman with #write) and a few writing the RIB code directly.

With POV I have done the plants and the particles (spheres) for the
smoke of the volcano.

To place the particles of the clouds (lots of spheres) I created a
special shader, a kind of clouds generator.

For this image I have created 26 shaders:
1 volume shader, my ground fog in the background.
11 displacement shaders, mountains, trees, rocks, ammonite...
11 surface shaders, sand, sea, sky, rocks...
2 procedural shaders, for the clouds and the sea (waves).
1 light shader.

I used Rib Tickler (a text editor similar to POV for windows) to create
and edit the Rib files and to create, compile and test the shaders.

The final render was done with BMRT 2.4

Texture maps created with Photo-Paint and Paint Shop Pro. Some are
scans of real things (plants).

Also with Paint Shop Pro I added the name and made the jpg.