Being on the brink of moving houses this week, this seems appropriate:-)

When I started reading SF, back in the late 1960's, I came across many short 
stories and novelettes in the magazine Analog which became classics 
afterwards. Also in Analog, I discovered the work of such artists as Ed 
Emshwiller and Frank Kelly Freas, or John Schoenherr. Look for them and 
others here: http://www.noreascon.org/retroart/CatalogByArtist.html.

When looking at an old book cover, a couple of months ago, I thought I would 
make a kind of tribute to those artists by creating a scene - if not in the 
style - then in the mood of the 60's - 70's illustrators of SF. This is the 
result (WIP-01). There is still a lot to do of course. Here, no radiosity (a 
small, feeble fillin light is used), rendered in version 3.7, beta 23 in 
about 10 minutes. Another version, with the sun behind the camera, took 
about 30 minutes but seems more dull in terms of overall composition.

The title "Why don't you go home?" is, I think, emblematic for a whole 
section of SF concerned with the contact between humans and aliens, but it 
may also serve as a metaphore for our own multicultural world.

As always, comments and criticisms are welcomed.

Thomas

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