A Storm of Mammoths

Winter is around the corner, and I wanted to make some art to get me in the mood. So for the latest in my paleoart series, I have Mammoths heralding the coming of the cold season. The first dusting of snow has fallen and a rabbit has ventured out to see what all the commotion is about.

Most animals have a collective noun that names a group of them. For instance, a group of crows is called a murder, a group of chickens is called a brood, cats...a clowder, geese...a gaggle, etc.. However, there doesn't appear to be a collective noun for mammoths. I guess being extinct deprives them of that. Well, I've decided that I like the word "storm" for a group of Mammoths, at least for this particular artwork.

This image uses purchased content. The mammoths and rabbit were posed in Poser then imported into Vue where I constructed the rest of the scene. Final rendering was done in Vue and took about 40 hours (not sure why it took so long for this one as I wasn’t doing anything tricky with atmospheres or lighting). I used Gimp for post production.