EMAIL:         famrom@ran.es
NAME:          Guillermo Sanz Romero
TOPIC:         Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT:     I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.00.msdos.wat-cwa
TOOLS USED:    DOS Edit and Micrografx Picture Publisher 5.0
RENDER TIME:   6h 19m 42s
HARDWARE USED: PC i486DX2-66Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

"Systems ready, proceeding with tonight's patrol."
This represents the take off of police aerocars at sunset in a XXI century
city. Some buildings, people (visible as small dots in the ground) and an
advertisment form the rest of the scene.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Some weeks ago Blade Runner was broadcasted where I live. Then I decided that
a scene based on Blade Runner city will be fun and interesting.

I started creating some buildings, but mine are more normal than the BR mega
arquitecture. My buildings look smaller and more factible than those "a city
inside one building" typical of many SF pictures. The advertisment is a .gif
that I found in the Ukiyo-e museum, if you want more photos or info try this
<http://www.cjn.or.jp/ukiyo-e/arts-index.html> (Do you remember the BR's scene
where you can see a lot of ads, even an advertising zeppelin?) Maybe I should
have put more ads in other buildings. ;)

Then I go for the ship, I wanted one with some lights but not with blasting
jets, cos it's suposed to land on buildings and maybe even on wide streets.
I mixed the Blade Runner police car with Cyberpunk 2020 AV ships (CP2020 is a
role playing game about ... guess! ;) ). In other words a ship with vertical
take off and landing capabilities, due to is directed thrust engines
(fireless turbofans, like helicopter's rotor inside a tube).

The final touches where adding some crowd and the light effects (atmosphere
for the ship's spotlights and halos for the sirens).

The text was added and the image converted with PP5.

If do you want more info visit <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4774/>
or <http://www.ran.es/~famrom/> (the Spanish link is empty now, I hope to
write the html as soon as possible) or better write to <famrom@ran.es>. ;)