Up! Up! And away! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's our latest missile defense system! My idea of Superman's heat vision was always that it should be more like a focused light than the typical red laser beam sometimes shown in the comics. In this composition I was trying to show that the beams coming from the Man of Steel's eyes are both brighter and hotter than the sun - hot enough to ignite the oxygen in the air itself. Custom figure modeled in Lightwave 3D based on G2 figure exported from Poser. Posed in Poser. Enhanced and rendered with Lightwave 3D. Hair rendered with Lightwave 3D FiberFX plug-in. Materials designed with Lightwave 3D. Textures designed with Illustrator and Photoshop. Missiles modeled and rendered in Lightwave 3D. Missile exhaust and heat vision rendered with Lightwave 3D volumetrics emitter plug-ins. Cape motion designed with Lightwave 3D ClothFX plug-in. Flame effect drawn in Photoshop. Motion blur on figure enhanced in Photoshop. Clouds rendered with Lightwave 3D.