TITLE: Lost on the Great Silk Path
NAME: Artur Tchoukanov
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: artur83@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: silk.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Zbrush (high quality) renderer

TOOLS USED: 
    ZBrush Demo, Rhino3d

RENDER TIME: 
    2.00 mins

HARDWARE USED: 
    PentiumII, 350Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Since my country of origin is Kazakhstan, I heard all about the great Silk Path
that runs through 
a major part of Asia, from China, to Europe through the middle. 
A chineese woman snuck some silk worms into her hair and exported them along
that route.
in those time, silk exportation was done by China, and these was a prohibition
on exporting the 
silk worms. 
This image illustrates one of those worms cocooned in the remains of what seems
to be
a wooden frame, where they were usualy grown(then boiled)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I downloaded the Demo of ZBrush(which is an amazing tool) and started fooling
around with it,
i did my Pre-Modeling with Rhino3d, but it's tough to get it rendered good, and
a hassle to create organic shapes.
(I think I went a long way since my 1999 competition of Imaginary World transdes
:-))