War of the Worlds - Men Hunting by czarnyrobert

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 24, 2006

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And as the day came they became aware of a fighting-machine standing near by the Langham and looking down at them.

Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles swinging and rattling about its strange body [...] and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket.

Heaven knows how long he had been there. It must have given some of them a nasty turn. He came down the road towards them, and picked up nearly a hundred too drunk or frightened to run away.

Strange as it may seem to a human being, all the complex apparatus of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exist in the Martians. They were heads - merely heads. Entrails they had none.
They did not eat, much less digest. Instead, they took the fresh, living blood of other creatures, and injected it into their own veins. I have myself seen this being done. [...] Let it suffice to say, blood obtained from a still living animal, in most cases from a human being, was run directly by means of a little pipette into the recipient canal...
The bare idea of this is no doubt horribly repulsive to us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.

A Martian has only to go a few miles to get a crowd on the run. And I saw one, one day, out by Wandsworth, picking houses to pieces and routing among the wreckage. But they won't keep on doing that. So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the
best and storing us in cages and things. That's what they will start doing in a bit.
Lord! They haven't begun on us yet.

H.G. Wells 1898 "War of the Worlds"

If you want to learn how I made this scene, visit "SCENES" section of my website (I am still working on the "Making of the Men Hunting" - so some elements are missing yet, and it may happen that page don't open due to transfer limits - if it occurs, just try later.

To build the 1900 London I used mainly Alain Gracia's buildings (available at Cornucopia 3D), Poser 4 Low Polygon man & horse, narwik's bridge, Bernard Dumas Renault G, and some other stuff from the net (more credits & links on my website)

If there is something you would like to know about this scene that is not mentioned on my website's article, just let me know - as I said I am still working on it, so I can add some further explanations.

I hope you will like this picture.

Take care :-)

Robert

Comments (264)

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MAW3D

1:35PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Oh, my ... yeah, I like it. A lot of detail in fore- & background. Amazing!

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Fredy

1:36PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

STUNNING!!! The level of detail is unbelieveable!!!! The lighting!!! The complete scene setup!!! Smashing!!! Bravo! VOTE

Echo1

1:36PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Hats off!!!!

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zorares

1:38PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

UNBELIEVABLE! How long does it take to create one of these images?

Terreinconnue

1:41PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Splendid scene and work, details...WOAW !!!

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wusel

1:43PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Wooow. whats that???? Just another fantastic work and a lot of inspiration for renderer like us!! Excellent

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thefixer

1:43PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Bloody hell! That is just amazing! v

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eres

1:43PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

C'est ahurissant et dentiellement gnt!!!! Juste...Je n'arrive pas lire le texte car, vert sur blanc c'est pas ident...;o)

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Mango

1:44PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

its a breathtaking image - outstanding

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FCLittle

1:44PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Great job. Very detailed, very realistic.

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melevos

1:45PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!VOTE

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kjer_99

1:46PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Absolutely fantastic render!

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Zarat

1:47PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Wonderful work!

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kilal

1:49PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Wow!!!Incredible!Fantastic work!You're a master!Vote++++++++

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kenwas

1:49PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Simply outstanding Robert! Congrats!

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Rokol

1:50PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Beautiful! Beautiful! The French architectre looks a little out of place alongside Big Ben, but who care's. Wonderful details Robert!

barkhane

1:50PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

EXCELLENT !!!!!

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ptrope

1:51PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Someone sign this man up for an illustrated coffee-table book of WotW! Anyone (Spielberg?) who thought you couldn't make the time period visually interesting just needs to look at your pictures! Brilliant and masterful, as always!

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1010

1:53PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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DigitalDream666

1:53PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

WOW you are the Best what a Picture Nice !!!!

mike_phi

1:57PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Astonishing, even for the master

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amanda_a42

1:58PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

ASTONISHING!!! your WOTW images are out of this world and this one's no exception. FABULOUS!!! V

superior

2:01PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

WONDERFUL composition !!! Fantastic work ;)

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Nanothect

2:04PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

Cripes...(gulp) a classic if ever I saw one.

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slonishko

2:08PM | Fri, 24 February 2006

This is absolutly amazing,and OMG the poly count must have been in the high billions.But i only mentioned it because my eye went right to it for some reason,you have 2 clocks in there and their showing different times:D

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