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I'm thinking that retro looking TV is screaming for a slightly bent set of
rabbit ears. That, and that ridge of mountans makes your moon look very
small, especially since the camera seems to be at about eye level for your
little green man. If that TV is a regular, earth scale TV, I feel about 8
inches tall. If you work on the scale, you can probably really change the
feel of the image quite a lot.
All that aside, I think the rabbit ears are really indespensible. A must.
Good hunting!
Frank
http://surreal-dreams.com
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"Skip Talbot" <sta### [at] uiuc edu> wrote in message
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> Not bad, definately has some humor going for it. As for improvement
> suggestions: the moon and especially the Earth, are too dark. Perhaps a
few
> more stars and details on the TV?
I laughed out loud when I saw this -- very cute. A few suggestions:
* Try using the "smooth" option on your height_field.
* If you're really ambitious, try an isosurface to create your terrain.
* Increase the ambience (finish { ambient 0.4} maybe) on Earth.
* A really neat effect is to use a density_map to create an atmosphere on
the earth and make it glow.
* Add a bump_map and image_map to give the knob and speaker a more realistic
work. The geometry doesn't have to be any more complex -- you can do a lot
with just textures. If you don't have Photoshop, GIMP is a fine tool -- and
free -- from www.gnu.org.
* Get Poser 5.0 from Curious Labs (www.curiouslabs.com) for around $250 to
create a really realistic looking alien patch and pose him just right. Some
people consider this cheating, however :-) What you did there was far more
difficult than just importing a converted Poser model.
* Add another shadowless light in a different location (I'm really partial
to indigo, rgb <0.3, 0.4, 0.5> ish) to add depth to the scene.
* Maybe add some water in the crater and have him taking a bath with bubbles
and stuff :-)
* Add pigment { wrinkles scale <0.2, 0.2, 0.2> } or the like to your
height_field to give it some quick texture.
You've got a great sense of humor! I can't wait to see more!!!
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