TITLE: Myth
NAME: Mario Russo
COUNTRY: Brazil
EMAIL: mrussoart@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.mrussoart.hpg.com.br
TOPIC: Mythology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: myth.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3dsmax Default Scanline

TOOLS USED: 
    3dsmax 5, Shag hair Illustrator, Photoshop

RENDER TIME: 
    19min 37s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz HT, 1Gb RAM dual DDR 400, nVidia QUADRO FX 500

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

For Idea concept I mixed some elements of past cultures like Roman Empire and
Greek Mythology and
a bit of traditional RPG elements, Dungeons and so on.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

All the modelling job was done in 3dsmax, then I ajusted the lights and
textures
I was trying to extract the best from the default scanline because it_s pretty
fast, so
I spent a lot of time on configuration of lights and rendering tests. I used
also Shag:Hair
for the feather of the captain_s helmelt and reactor cloth for his cloth,. 
I used Illustrator to make the shield bump map and Volumetric Light for the blue
fog up the monster.
for Post correction I used a bit of contrast to improve a little bit the
dramatic effect and to 
add the credits text. Ah, I resized the image to fit 250k requirements to enter
the competition, original size is 5183x3965. That_s it. :)