TITLE: "Alive ! It's alive !"
NAME: SARAJA Olivier
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: olivier.saraja@free.fr
WEBPAGE: http://saraja.multimania.com/divers/blender.htm          http://www.blender-cafe.org
     The sources of the picture are available (zipped) on
http://saraja.multimania.com/divers/alive.zip for a few days. You'll need
Blender v2.x to unpack the textures. Beware, the file is huge : around 6 Mb
zipped.

TOPIC: The laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: alive.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender v2.04

TOOLS USED: 
    Gimp for the textures, Poser 3.0 for the scientist and the arm

RENDER TIME: 
    around 6 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6 2 350 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    "Welcome to the new (virtual) generation of life-giving mad
scientists". In a old fashion frankenstein-like laboratory, a government-like
scientist is working on giving life to a virtual creature that finally turns
against him.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

     I primarily focused on lighting, and specially on volumetric
lighting. As Blender doesn't offers handy radiosity functionality, I faked all
radiosity with Lamps with Sphere button toggled on, expecilly the glow effect
from the hand.
     The organic shapes were modelled with the help of the magnet
tool (proportional deformation) (CTRL+O) from Blender, very handy and useful.
     I also concentrated on the recently released UV-Editor : the element
table and the posters on the walls, the various books, linux boxes and paper
sheets where textured this way.
     The digital clock was made using the led plugin
available on http://www.five-o-clock.de/blender_plugins/ that provides many
excellent texture and sequence plugins.
     The bump map used for the face of the scientist has been painted with
the Gimp.
     'Sharp' eyes will notice that the photography on the badge is Fox
Mulder's... I found this picture on the Net a long time ago, and I found
amusing (some sort of a private joke) using it on the badge instead of pasting
a render of the face of the scientist. I still wonder why, some of my friends
think that my scientist has the head of Skinner ;o) It's an unwanted sequel...
     The 'creatures's hand' is a plain model with the Wire activated and
Emittence set to 1 to enhance the glow effect.