TITLE: First Contacts NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net TOPIC: Horror COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: rasalien.jpg RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5 raytracer TOOLS USED: Raydream Studio 5.5 and Micrografix Picture Publisher RENDER TIME: approx. 40 monutes HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 160 MEG SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Alien comes to earth, but needs to see things through the eyes of the indigent creatures. After finding an unwilling donor, he puts the modified lens over his own eye... remember the movie "War of the Worlds." In that movie, the earthlings used an alien lens to see how they might see us. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I just upgraded to Studio 5.5 which has a bunch of new stuff. I tried out everything I could think of using. I used Blobs for the skull, body, and hand. I used Painter 3d (that's included) for the skin textures and eyes. I used the Mesh program for the jaws. I also used KPT3 (that was also included) to make textures and the gel for the lights.