Jpeg compression wasn't too kind on this one :( Well I'll put some close-ups
and details on my site sometimes in the next months.

- Rendered with povray 3.5
- Uses low quality radiosity (count 10 error_bound 1...)
- Terragen sky
- Terrain modelled with World Machine (beta)
http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/ (great prog, BTW)
- Render time at 1200*1600 takes 6 hours and 600 MB of RAM (P4, 1.7Gz, 1Gb
RAM)
- 15000 plants with something like 20 different Xfrog models, all by me
except the main tree, the small bushes and trees in the background, and some
grass. The "evil" tree is by me too. 2000 leaves and twigs in the pond.
Possibly I'll make some of the plants available later this year.
- The hardest part was to create the backlit leaves for the main tree. For
this I had to make "fleshy" leaves and fill them with scattering media. I
wish I could have done it on all the plants, but either I'll wait for faster
machines or find a better solution for backlit translucent material. Some of
the flowers were double_illuminated.
- Dragonflies modelled in Rhino with the demo version (before I bought it).
They'll surely look better at the final full res of 6000*8000 which is
rendering now.
- The frog is a Poser one. It's almost invisible at 600*800 but it's
there...
- Regrets : the lighting. I had a lot of trouble with it, as the original
image
is not very gamma-tolerant : it looked ugly on low-gamma monitors and much
too dark on others. I had to find a middle way so I tweaked the tones in
post-process and some colors were lost (and there's some extra graininess
too). I hope it looks right on your PC or Mac.

G.

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