TITLE: Perfect Isolation NAME: Jeremy Heald COUNTRY: United Kingdom EMAIL: jezheald@aol.com WEBPAGE: http://members.fortunecity.com/jezzer TOPIC: Loneliness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: perfect.jpg RENDERER USED: Cinema 4d 5 SE (it came free with the March 2002 issue of PC Format) TOOLS USED: GIMP CREATION TIME: 6 hours HARDWARE USED: 2Ghz Pentium 4, 256Mb RAM VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Loneliness is a human emotion caused by isolation(physical, social etc.) from other people. The reason I choose a space scene was because you can achieve perfect isolation there. You can scream as loud as you like and no-one will hear you. You can be freezing to death, while your friend 2 metres away is scorched to death. Another reason for choosing space was that the Universe may be teaming with intelligent life, but humans have never made contact with any other intelligent species. The space station which is meant to look like it is under construction, represents mankind's first footsteps towards coming out of this isolation. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: First I created the helmet, with the help of a tutorial in PC Format. Then I made a simple upper torso. The planet is simply a sphere. The space station was created by using rectangles for the solar panels, cylinders for the main body, and a hexagonal prism frame for the parts under construction. The spaceship is just a lathe object with pipe objects for legs. The Sun and the rocket glow were created by using lightsources. The lense effects and glows are features of Cinema 4d's rendering process.