TITLE: arrival
NAME: Henri Sartor
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: hesa@club-internet.fr
TOPIC: Classic Sci-fi
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: arrival.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    3dsmax 3

TOOLS USED: 


CREATION TIME: 
    impossible to tell - 3 years since the first polygon - and not
finished !

HARDWARE USED: 
    celeron 2.6Ghz - 512 Mb - a nuclear power plant somewhere
outside

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


Originally it should have depicted the arrival of a traveller on a peculiar
planetoid, the last frames showing him putting his foot on the space-port
ground and being  welcomed by somebody or something.

The planetoid was build in a far past by aliens who have disapeared since, and
humans found it deserted.
The purpose of this artifact is unknown, but along time a permanent settlement
developped and it is now ( oops ) populated  by humans, humanoids, e.t's, and
anything that could develop as "beings" .

The shells are organised in 5 orbits, the innermost shells being the most
populated, with many dense buildings, the outer shells being reserved for
wildlife, vast spaces and ecosystems.
The space-port is located on a shell in the 3rd orbit, it is the only one I
modeled a little ( not enough ), there are no textures on it ( no time ), the
trajectory is not good ( no time ), etc...

No time, no time, no time, Hollywood is far away... 
The animation is un-finished...



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plugins used : 
- solidify
- meshextrude for the randomness