TITLE: Forest
NAME: Jan Duda
COUNTRY: Slovakia
EMAIL: janoduda@szm.com
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: forestrv.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 3d

TOOLS USED: 


RENDER TIME: 
    2h

HARDWARE USED: 
    celeron 400


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Since i am a big fan of fantasy and i read about dark forests and forests
of any kind i became fascinated by them. I wanted to recreate the atmospehere
of of such forest, where one could get lost both physicaly and psychicaly
or find inspiration or joy.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The scene has been modeled and composited in Bryce version 3. There are some
terrain objects for the ground a plane object for the water surface and of
course the trees which are actualy
terrain objects shaped to act like tree trunks. All the textures are typical
Bryce procedurals except one - the ground texture which is a leafy jpg. To give
a depth to the scene and impresion of endlessness i used a greenish-bluehaze
color and some fog. The tops of the trees are not there, except a few branches.
I used a plane with a texture which is placed above the scene out of the view
to simulate the branches with leaves. as the light hits the textured plane it
creates patchy shadows on the trunks and the forest floor.
So thats pretty much it, i hope you like it and give me some comments on
improoving it.

Jan.