Artist's Comments
This is the weird idea i came up with, thinking about this months topic.
It's a supernatural entity playing in it's fingers our little fragile planet
earth, causing natural disasters, lightnings and bolts, hurricanes and all
you can think of.
The entity hand is a 3d replica of my right hand modeled with metanurbs and
filled with random pointpolys to look like it's made out of stars.
Earth is a three sphere object(sea, ground & atmosphere) I stuck a bone in
the middle of a tesselated part of the outside globe , then i rotated it in
B axis to get the hurricane effect.
The background is made of a cylinder with edge transparency and fractal
noise transparensy.
I used steamer to make the edge glow around planet earth and the glow in the
effects panel to make the bolts between fingers and globe.
All the textures used are procedural and mostly fractal noise except of an
alpha image used as world map wraped around the earth sphere.This image was
modified in Photoshop.
17 lights are totaly used in the scene.Most of them are just for the lens
flair effect.
The scene is about 17000 polygons heavy and rendered in 48 minutes with
enhanced medium antialising.
This is my first serious attempt in Lightwave3d after 3 months of using it
and i enjoyed much doing it.