EMAIL: jschmi@optonline.net
NAME: Jim Schmitz
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Sunrise
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: Vue d'Esprit 4
TOOLS USED: Xfrog, Poser 4
RENDER TIME: 2 hours
HARDWARE USED: 800 MHhz CPU
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

This is a peaceful image of a lake, hidden in the forest, that one person has found to be the perfect fishing hole.  Getting up early to fish is hard to do, but if I knew it would look like this, I would be there in a second.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

First, I spent a lot of time experimenting with skies in Vue and browsing the web for realistic but beautiful sky images.  I found a great sunrise picture, and I was able to reproduce it pretty well in Vue.  I had a pretty good idea of what I was going for - a picture perfect sunrise, with the outline of trees in front of it.  I put Vue trees in the background, and two modified Xfrog plants in front.  I then put in the lake in the middle, fooled around with the colors for ages, and finished up with a guy fishing and two birds in the background.