Entry #13

Filename: ElectricMothers.jpg
Created by: Dino Andreazza
E-Mail: dino@webfront.net.au

Artist's Comments
"Do 3D cows dream of electric mothers?"

Description: The cow is the standard LW cow with surface changes such as a little fractal noise on the diffuse channel and an image bump map added. Polygons were added around the mouth and nose to give more detail. The ".lwo" brand was a negative intensity spotlight with projection image.

For the "electric cow" I used the keypad section polys of the LW laptop computer object. For the light beam surrounding the legs I used the mid-section slice of the body bevelled to the ground and for surfacing used transparent edges, a luminosity image map I made of random black & white vertical streaks and some glow.

The 6,000 strands of grass are made up of 5 segments each, giving a total of 30,000 polylines which I jittered and used magnet on for variation. I used a vertical gray scale gradient image on the transparency channel to give the grass fine tips.

The fence posts I made from jittered segmented discs and for surfacing I used only procedurals: a combination of fractal noise and wood on the color channel and fractal noise with marble on diffuse, plus a crumple bump map. I used a blue area light with ray-traced shadows as the main moon light, a low intensity distant light from above instead of any ambient, plus 5 spotlights to simulate the glowing light coming from the wings of electric cows flying overhead.

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