EMAIL: afrancou@hotmail.com
NAME: Alexis Francou
TOPIC: Frozen Moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: "Largemouth Bass" 
COUNTRY: Mexico
WEBPAGE: http://www.freewebs.com/af3dworld
RENDERER USED: 3DS MAX
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 30 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Athlon T-bird 850 Mhz, 512 Mb RAM, GeForce 4 Ti4400

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I got the idea by looking at the box of Sierra's Trophy Bass 4 game for
the PC (http://www.trophybass4.com) and other bass pictures on the web.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The largemouth bass and underwater plants were created by 
extruding faces from a box (box modelling). Part of the splash was also 
modelled that way, the rest (little drops) are sphere particles.

The floating leaves are modified cylinders and the spinner bait was 
created with basic geometry. The fishing line is a spline.

The water and floor are cylinders. The surface of the water is controlled
by a ripple modifier, and the sky reflection comes from another cylinder
placed above with a white/black gradient material.

The texture of the fish is a modified picture that was also used as a guide
to create the bump map. The other textures are procedural maps.

Lighting comes from 3 omni lights used for ambient and one spot light used
as sun light.