TITLE: If on a winter's night a traveler
NAME: David Seace
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: archibabble@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: NA
TOPIC: winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dswinter.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    FORM-Z 3.5.5

TOOLS USED: 
    PHOTOSHOP FOR TEXTURES

RENDER TIME: 
    3 HRS, 45 MIN

HARDWARE USED: 
    MAC G4 450 MHZ

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This image is really open to your imagination.  A lot of 
serene yet very eerie things seem to happen on a 
cold winter night. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Simple modeling on most of the objects, lots of texture work
in photoshop for the model, as well as getting the 
background just right.  the footprints were tried several 
ways, the first of which was a map that was created in 
photoshop.  this didn't work however because the scale
was way off.  in order to get any detail, the image map
had to be huge, and ended up being over 100 MB. 
I tried several different maps, but they kept getting really
pixelated and out of proportion.   so then i decided to 
actually model the footprints.  In order to keep the polygon
count down, i made 5 meshes;  dense in the foreground, 
gradually becoming less dense as it receded into the image. I'm pretty
happy with the results.  At least they're way better than any 
bump mapping I tried! 
I really hope this is allowed to be submitted.  I was out of town 
as the deadline approached, and when i got back i didn't have
time to submit the image.  Sorry i'm late!!