TITLE: First Picture Show, "The Aliens Have Landed!" NAME: Paul Vaughan COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bcooper761@aol.com TOPIC: First Encounter COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: 1stshow.jpg ZIPFILE: 1stshow.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 DOS version in window under Win95 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro ........ .tga --> .jpg Pman .................. create swirled sky Pixel3d ............... .cob --> .dxf Wcvt2pov .............. .dxf --> .inc RENDER TIME: better part of week, but sharing processor time with many other projects HARDWARE USED: 386DX/33 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I decided to do a first encounter with aliens ... what came to mind is that most of the ideas about alien encounter come to us via the movies ... and that that has been a popular theme since the early times of cinema. So I would create a first encounter/first movies theme ... then, ah ha, why from our perspective? So there it is ... the Martians choose to do an alien encounter by the creatures from Earth as the theme for one of their first movies. The set is simply and the color is all but nonexistant ... technology wasn't so great back then ... and of course the aliens are strange, but surprisingly martianoid. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Martians ... mesh borrowed from "area51.cob" Aliens ..... mesh borrowed from "Mrobot.3ds" Camera ..... very simple CSG Tree ....... 'skiny' height using my business card logo kept thin to be a cardboard set prop Mound ...... trianangular construct Rocket Ship ... simple CSG Sky .... image map using swirl created with Pman Paint Manipulation Yes, I know you all put great value on original objects ... but my talents do not lean in that direction and if I were to limit my efforts to only those objects I created myself that would be sparse indeed! It seems somewhat strange to me that there is such a push for 'true life near photographic reality' combined with such a negative attitude towards stock objects. So, if I were to produce a still-life photograph of a bowl of wax fruit, would it be so important that I carve out the fruit myself. In photography hardly any of the objects in a scene are created by the photographer ... his art is in his composition of the scene.