TITLE: Sunrise
NAME: Jim Schmitz
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jschmi@optonline.net
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: asunrise.jpg
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.

