EMAIL : malik.laichaoui@free.fr
NAME : LAICHAOUI Malik 
TOPIC : WARFARE
COPYRIGHT : I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE : spacewar
COUNTRY : FRANCE
WEBPAGE : http://linux.experience.free.fr
TOOLS : Blender suite (LINUX)
HARDWARE : Athlon TBird 1Ghz @ 1,4 Ghz, SDRAM 256 Mo PC133, HDD IBM 4o Go, ATI Rage Fury 32 Mo...
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...