The Making of A Winter Amid the Ice
“The Making of A Winter Amid the Ice” by Guillaume Jobst
An illustration made with: 3dsmax – Mental ray – Photoshop CS3
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I created this image to illustrate the short story written by Jules Verne when he was young: A Winter Amid the Ice . My first idea was a rather simple composition with a boat starting to be frozen by the ice, and in the background, lost in the blizzard, a small group of explorers on their way to save their fellow who went missing in this unfriendly land 
I started from several visual references (see below) of historical boats and frozen landscapes. I started a simple modeling of the boat with the Max basic tools: polygons, loft and patch grid for the sails, as well as a spline network + surface modifier for the hull. Nothing complicated in fact See the image below.
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