"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Amazing! The time and effort you've put into this shows through in its sheer
> quality. The colours are great, vibrant 50s pulp bursts from the image, and
> I agree, keep the magenta tripod 'eyes'!
> And that explosion! A superb piece of work.
> I honestly have nothing more to suggest... it looks as finished a piece of
> work as I've ever seen :-)
>

Thank you, Bill; VERY much appreciated.

> The reason the tripod in the
> distance on the left looks a little weirdly lit is because it's standing
> right over the fires, am I right? If so, keep it as it is, leisurely
> examination will reveal this to the attentive viewer.
>

Yes indeed!  Happy to know you caught that.  It was a fluke, really; I
didn't plan to do it. I happened to place that Machine in the distance
thinking it was still *in front of* the fire.  But when I saw the result, I
said "Oh YEAH!" And it just happened that one of the tentacles was behind
the buildings. Serendipity!

BTW, in case it isn't screamingly obvious, the buildings are just an
image_map, a piece of Photoshop silhouette artwork with an alpha-channel.
But it's applied to a bumpy procedural height_field (the bumps face -z.)
The HF is positioned so that  *some* of the bumpiness actually *pokes
through* a thin, textured "fire box" that  bisects the middle of the HF--to
make it look like flames are not just behind the "buildings", but are
licking around and through them.  I was kind of proud of that!

Ken W.

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