TITLE: Statue in the Void
NAME: Justin Cousineau
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
EMAIL: j.e.cousineau@lycos.com
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jcstatue.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3dsmax 4

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop6 (conversion, signing)

RENDER TIME: 
    16 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Dual Athlon MP 1900+ / 1gb ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Somewhere in a demension void nearly of everything, a statue stands on an
enchanted platform.  How it got there is a mystery, but it is apparent that the
enchantment has givin the statue at least a thread of conciousness...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This was a good chance for me to really stretch my modeling skills.  I modeled
everything in the scene from splines with a few exceptions: The statues head
was actually a bald female head that I imported from one of the sample scenes. 
The lower half of the toga is from a cylinder and the torches are modified
spheres.

All textures with the exception of the fire are procedural maps that I created
by copying a bitmap.  this way I could use them repeatedly throughout the scene
without having to worry about seams or repetitions.

Any questions/comments/feedback don't hesitate, email me.