EMAIL: decle@club-internet.fr

NAME: DECLE Fabrice

WEB PAGE: NONE

TOPIC: Still images (insects and spiders)

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE: Let's attack!

COUNTRY: France

RENDERER USED: 3DS MAX

TOOLS USED: None

RENDER TIME: About 5 min

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 200 MMX

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This image shows some ants attacking a pie during a pic-nic, which often happens!!!


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This image was quite hard to do because everything was big, so I couldn't "cheat", I had to create really detailled objects. Indeed, the scene was very heavy...

	*The ants have been made from a tutorial. It is made of primitives modified with FFD or EDIT MESH. The texture of the ant needed a lot of work, because I wanted to gat a photo-realistic one.
So I've studied a lot of pictures and photos, I've observed a lot of real ants and I've made my map. What makes realistic is bump mapping: I've used 3 bump maps to create the ant's texture.

	* The tablecloth was made from a PATCH deformed. It was quite easy (even if the result is not perfect, far from it...)

	*The grass was also made from a tut. It's easy to abtain this effect: you only have to create a lot of objects...

	*The background is a simple map from a photograph.

	* The aluminium was hard to do because of the map: I've created the map by studying a real aluminium paper... You only need to have a big shining a reflexions.