TITLE: spacewar
NAME: LAICHAOUI Malik
COUNTRY: FRANCE
EMAIL: malik.laichaoui@free.fr
WEBPAGE: http://linux.experience.free.frTOOLS : Blender suite (LINUX)
HARDWARE : Athlon TBird 1Ghz @ 1,4 Ghz, SDRAM 256 Mo PC133, HDD IBM 4o Go, ATI
Rage Fury 32 Mo...

TOPIC: WARFARE
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: spacewar.jpg
ZIPFILE: spacewar.zip
RENDER TIME: 
    not a while...


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

Sun is rising on Earth, and in space, it is war...  What we used to call
StarWars became a reality...
I was watching TV, something about Echelon, Secret Services and this kind of
strategical stuff...
Then I heard an american professional of war, talking about the fact that
nowaday, war is limited by Earth atmosphere, but in future,
there could be that kind of satellite's battle... I immediatly had this vision :
war above our heads !  Don't worry on Earth... dead pieces will fall in the
sea...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE IMAGE WAS CREATED : 
Made by Malik, just one year of Linux and Blender practising (I am a poor
multimedia artist beginner...;-))
Made under Linux Mandrake 8.0, with the magic Blender suite... 
Basic shapes and meshes, bumped textures, and alpha pictures for clouds,
particles for lasers,
spot with halo for the sunlight, lonely particle for the far lightning star..

PS : I put the source file spacewar.blend in spacewar.zip , but there R no
textures...