TITLE: DayGrind
NAME: Phillip Mabry
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: Mabryphillip@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dailygri.jpg
ZIPFILE: dailygri.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender

TOOLS USED: 
    Blender, Paint Shop Pro

RENDER TIME: 
    Aprox. 5 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 3 233, 256M Ram, SIS video card w/4M video ram.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I originally wanted to emphisise the fortress of smoking.
However, as I noticed the plainess of the image I realized that with the coffee
and the over all dull look, I think the idea of daily grind was better suited. 
Trying to break out of the daily grind can be difficult and expensive.  As a
fortress of its own kind, I hope that the dimly lit, mundane image, can convey
the average Monday morning dread felt in the "rat race".

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    Everything was done in Blender with
the exeption of the image maps used on the cigarettes and the mug.  Creating
the image map for the cigarettes was the majority of the time in this image
(about 5 hours).  I freehanded the logos and banners and searched through every
font available to match them up.  I even had to create my own 'b'.  Other than
that, it was pretty easy.  I had only seen the topic this past Thursday and had
never entered before, so I put this together to get involved.