EMAIL: raw@ll.iac.es
NAME: Bob Watson
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
Renderer Used: POVRAY3.00e.Linux.gcc
Tools used Moray and Photoshop 
Render Time: 17 Minutes 23 Seconds
Hardward Used: Pentimium-120

Image Description:

At first I wanted to do something like the posters for sci-Fi B movies
such as "The creature from the Black Lagoon" or "IT came from outer space",
but with the alien and human roles swapped (ie Ugly monster being carried
out of swamp by beautiful girl). The idea evolved to the classical
confrontation of driver in desert meeting alien, but with the above twist.

Description of how this image was created:

Both character are done in bezier patchs modelled in moray due to their
organic nature. The texture of the two guys are generated using wrinkes,
used for bump maps on the spaceman. The landscape height maps were created
in gifs made in photoshop, where I found the neat trick of creating craters
by using the gaussian air brush in two different sizes for inside and
outside. I wanted to use the new glow features of pov3 for the laser-ray
but didn't have time so an ugly ambient 1.0 cylinder had to do.