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.
      

