ALIENWARE CG Challenge
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Challenge Type: Still Image, Work in Progress 
Start: 20 October 2003
End: 20 January 2004
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Challengers: 1525 
Entries: 3876 
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Entries for Barry Hicks (imscifi)

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Milestone: Final Image
Date Submitted: Wednesday, 21 January 2004
Title: Alien Landscape Final
Notes: Well this is it! Thanks to those who helped me! Best of luck to all!

Look forward to getting to do this again!

(oh yeah, when do I get my computer?) ;)

he he he
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Milestone: Post Effects and Compositing
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: Alien Landscape Final
Notes: low res of final image
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Milestone: Rendering
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: Alien Landscape Pre Photoshop
Notes: Rendering of final layout before photoshop effects
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Milestone: Lighting
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: Alien Landscape Landscape
Notes: lighting layout from left side perspective view
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Milestone: Rendering
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: background sky
Notes: background sky done in photoshop and included in rendering
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Milestone: Texturing
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: octopus texture color
Notes: texture color for octopus
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Milestone: Texturing
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: octopus texture bump
Notes: bumpmap used on octopus
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Milestone: Rendering
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: alien landscape test1
Notes: testing layout rendering of landscape
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Milestone: Modeling
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: octopus model back
Notes: octopus model from the back side
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Milestone: Modeling
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: octopus weightshade model
Notes: octopus model 1
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Milestone: Modeling
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: Egg Pod Weightshade Model
Notes: egg podd close up
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Milestone: Concept Sketch
Date Submitted: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
Title: Alien Egg Pods
Notes: this was my first concept sketch of the egg pods done with markers.
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Milestone: Modeling
Date Submitted: Sunday, 30 November 2003
Title: Egg Pod
Notes: One of the Egg Pod structures viewed from ground level.
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Milestone: Concept Sketch
Date Submitted: Sunday, 30 November 2003
Title: Alien Landscape
Notes: Material: Watercolor

Concept:

This planet is pretty far away from any star... so not much in the way of external lighting. The lighting concept comes partially from the idea of creatures deep within the ocean, with bioluminescent parts and such. The planet itself is rather warm... perhaps the idea of some strange star in itself?

The lines in the background are like lay lines / openings into the planet. They emit gasses, heat, and electromagnetic energy. The open area where the lay lines are, would be equivalent to say the ocean.

The structures (purple rectangle like things) are more like sponges that float and support other creatures. There are different types of sponge/plateaus... which cause them to float at different levels. They interact with electromagnetic energy emitting from the lay lines... and also interact with various gasses and liquids. Depending on the location of the liquid or gasses constitutes where the sponge/plateaus will be. This has a determining factor as to what will grow on the sponges as well, considering various creatures would need different kinds of nutrients.

There are the egg pods... these are sort of like Venus flytraps... there is something that lives inside them. Each sponge would have one creature that would live between all of the egg pods on that sponge... being territorial, it would most likely kill any of it's own kind.

There are also the flower interface creatures in the upper level of the purple rectangles. They face toward stellar winds... absorbing energy from them... They are both biological and technical/mechanical. This is an intelligent species, though it has no form of communication with other beings. They developed technical/mechanical interfaces to help support their systems within a sparse environment.

There's also the octopus structure in the foreground... this too houses various life forms... This structure is a living "home" for other creatures. It has valves and vents for the intake and expulsion of gasses and liquids.

There are smaller plant like items that live around the base of the egg pods and octopus structure... these I guess would be equivalent to moss... or barnacles... or crystals...
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