TITLE: Frozen Memories
NAME: Ralf Treuherz
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: ralf.treuherz@web.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.treuherz.de
TOPIC: Frozen Moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: frozenme.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Creative Studio 3D (similar to Maxon Cinema 4D GO)

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Photo Paint for the Logo

RENDER TIME: 
    one Minute

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC with Athlon XP1800+, 256 MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Somebody has frozen all his best memories in ice cubes - his first dummy, his
first ball, the first cup and a picture of his first love ... to keep the memory
forever.
But on a nice day the sun gets a chance to melt a hole through the ice cave he
is
storing his treasures ... and it hits the ice cube with the picture of his first
love.
The cube is melting and already a small puddle of water is there.
May be this is a sign that the relationship is warming up - Love does not like
it
to be frozen forever ...
 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

 
The building of the cave took the longest time in the modelling process. It
seemed that
it took forever to get the "ice feeling". After watching "Die Another Day" I
knew what was
wrong: The reflection was missing. After adding reflective quality to the ice
the cave looked
much better.
The ice cubes are cubes subdivided and run through a random shift algorithm.
Each one is 
different. The cup and the dummy are build from real-life reference pictures.
The picture is
from my girl friend. I found the soccer ball somewhere on the internet in 3DS
format and added
some nice materials with bump maps to enhance realism.