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.