EMAIL:  Mabryphillip@hotmail.com
NAME:  Phillip Mabry
TOPIC:  Fortress
COPYRIGHT:  I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:  DayGrind
COUNTRY: United States
WEBPAGE: N/A
RENDERER USED:  Blender
TOOLS USED: Blender, Paint Shop Pro
RENDER TIME:  Aprox. 5 min
HARDWARE USED:  Pentium 3 233, 256M Ram, SIS video card w/4M video ram.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  I originally wanted to emphisise the fortress of smoking.  However, as I noticed the plainess of the image I realized that with the coffee and the over all dull look, I think the idea of daily grind was better suited.  Trying to break out of the daily grind can be difficult and expensive.  As a fortress of its own kind, I hope that the dimly lit, mundane image, can convey the average Monday morning dread felt in the "rat race".
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:  Everything was done in Blender with the exeption of the image maps used on the cigarettes and the mug.  Creating the image map for the cigarettes was the majority of the time in this image (about 5 hours).  I freehanded the logos and banners and searched through every font available to match them up.  I even had to create my own 'b'.  Other than that, it was pretty easy.  I had only seen the topic this past Thursday and had never entered before, so I put this together to get involved.