EMAIL: marco@cavet.de
TITLE: Arctic
NAME: Marco Cavet
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: http://www.cavet.de/
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: arctic.jpg
ZIPFILE: none
RENDERER USED: 
    3DS Max 4.2

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop, for adding text

RENDER TIME: 
    1hour, 23min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 800Mhz, 384 MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A friend of mine recently returned from a trip to Norway.
He showed me some great photographs and told me, that some of the
most spectacular landscapes could be found there.
And soon after I saw the topic of this round.
So I decided to make an image of a coastal mountain in the far north
for the competition.
My goal was to show the viewer some of the
greatness of nature. 




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The first thing I did, was creating the mountain  
and placeing the camera.
The next thing I had to do, was creating the water. 
Then I placed the lights an added some fog and clouds. 
Now I played around with the material editor and created the procedural
textures. (all textures in this images are procedural, no bitmap texture 
was used)
Now I did some test renders, moved everything around until I was pleased.
At last I did some final fixes on the textures. 


I hope you like what I did.