TITLE: AlienDeus
NAME: Romain Gaittet
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: romain.gaittet@noos.fr
TOPIC: Worship
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: aliengod.jpg
ZIPFILE: aliengod.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    Megapov 0.7


TOOLS USED: 

    Poser 3, RhinoDemo
    GIMP(for conversion)


RENDER TIME: 

    ~45 min.
    (creation time : slightly less than 1 month)


HARDWARE USED: 

    AMD K6-2 3DNow 400Mhz


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

      You can interpret this image the way you want but I can give two 
    possible explanations. The inhabitant of the planet Uph'Al are
    kind of big heads floating in the airs. They revere Gods and these
    Gods all have the same particularity : they are little metallic kind 
    of human-being. There is an interesting contrast, in my opinion,
    between the serene blue head and this statue with a very strange
    movement.
      But I won't give a second explanation here because it's an
    uninteresting S-F stuff and it's late and I'm getting boring
    when I make non-sense S-F at 1AM ;-) so ...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

    I began by doing the Head on Rhino (with a loft).
    Then I done done some scene composing with lights, with a macro I had
    already made for making columns, and with this head. After that, I
    worked with background's texture.
    At that time I wasn't sure of what was next about the right-part of
    my image. Because I don't really master Poser, I choosed to just make
    one body which would be statue of the God (now you know where come from
    my weird idea :_). A made conversions in Rhino. I once planned to make
    some mettalic artefacts at the base of the statue but hadn't time.
    I also did a lot of experimentations with Pov/Mpov media and area lights...
    But that has not been easy to work with in part because of the rendering
    time augmentation.