Entry #16

Filename: Wwhale.jpg
Created by: Michael Harney
E-Mail: Brookida@aol.com
Web-Site: ???

Artist's Comments
"Waldo Whale"

My entry for "The Beauty of Flight" is my conceptualization of the Waldo Whales described in the Sci-Fi Novel Sundiver by David Brin. The Waldo Whales in the book were primarily for swimming, but were also capable of short, non-sustained flight. The entire image is 100% Lightwave, made in Lightwave 3D 5.6c. The model took 8 hours of work and the Layout work took 12 hours to get steamer working (I was just learning that one, and I was having difficulty following the tutorial in the manual), setting up the IK and parent information for all the objects, setting all the surfaces to make them look right, and running various test renders, etc. The water is a large, multi-segmented, tripled rectangle with a fractal bumps displacement map applied on it. The sun in the image is the primary light source with a lens flare. The background colors are the sky, zenith, ground, and nadir settings from the effects menu. Hopefully, this image will become part of a larger project that I am working on for David Brin.

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