TITLE: Sunset on Loch Ness
NAME: Dale E. Cieslak
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: dcieslak@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.tripod.com/~DCieslak
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: declnm.jpg
ZIPFILE: declnm.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.1, Photoshop 4.0

RENDER TIME: 
    56m 34s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 100 MHz, 2MB Matrox Millenium

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Nessie gazes toward Urquhart Castle as the sun sets over a peaceful Loch Ness,
Scotland.  


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Using reference photos of Loch Ness, Scotland, I drew some height maps using
Photoshop (Airbrush tool,
white foreground, black background, 2%-5% pressure).  I did some test renders to
get the landscape 
pretty close to the real thing.  I then created an image map from the height
map, using browns and 
greens with the Colorize function, and used some filters to make it look more
natural.  I used the 
POV editor to create the atmospheric effects, like the clouds, the sun
"halo"/haze, the water, and 
the lighting.  Urquhart Castle was also created by hand in the POV editor. I
created the "monster" 
last, using Moray to place the objects, and then turning it into a blob by hand
in the POV editor.  
The details and textures were then tweaked until I was satisfied with them.

See source files for details.  I didn't include the color map due to file size. 
Sorry! :)

