TITLE: First Snow

NAME: Cie Mathis
COUNTRY: United States

EMAIL: yrtrouble2@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: 

TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
JPGFILE: snowflks.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 5


TOOLS USED: 



RENDER TIME: 
    8 hours


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III w/128mb ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is my first image submission here.  I have been working in 3D since 
mid-December 2001.  This is what I feel when I think of winter.  The first 
snowfall.  To me the flakes are always large, wet and drifting silently from 
the clouds.  Doesn't matter if they really are or not, this is how I picture 
it.   I wanted to give a happy feeling to my image and to convey the 
quietness that comes with a snowfall.  Of course, I'm happy to see winter 
gone by January but I still love the first snowfall.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The pine tree is a Bryce tree
with standard mats applied.  Snowflakes are symmetrical lattices with 
snowflake bitmap files applied and a tweeked snow mat applied and the 
mountain is a modified terrain that I created and use in many images because 
I like how it manipulates.  The image was rendered using soft shadows and 
blurry transmissions.



