In Orbit over the HiveMind by pmoores

Bryce • (none) • posted on Nov 27, 2002

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Description

So it has begun. Two years has past since the hive ships began their slow boost to near light speed. The queens and their millions of brood are now well on their way to that distant yellow sun. Meanwhile the overmind reconsiders. Can the queens be trusted so far away? Can they do what is necessary to protect the hive? Perhaps those distance alien 'humans' might beguil them, trick them into betraying their home planet. A glimmer of inspiration shoots through the overminds three brains. It decides to bud a clone of itself, and exact duplicate including all its memories. ----- High in orbit over the homeworld, the new overmind awakes. Almost 30 miles long, the great mothership comes under its command. Nearby, the attendant ships pull alongside. Though a few years behind, boosting at highest speed, they will catch up with the distant fleet. Then the new overmind will command the queens directly and assure that their undivided loyalty. Beware humans, for Procyon is only 11 light years away. The hive mind will arrive soon then you think, for judgement day is at hand. ************* All modelled in Xfrog and rendered in Bryce 5. Initially the middle ship and planets were rendered alone, took 18 hours. Refraction was set to neutral 100 as any other setting increased render time by at least 3 or 4 times. Still turnt out nice though refraction would have adding some shimmer to the texture.

Comments (15)

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tabou21

10:07PM | Wed, 27 November 2002

wow. im stunned.awesome render.

saftha

11:33PM | Wed, 27 November 2002

Love your XFrog ships - so delicate...

xenzeus

5:40AM | Thu, 28 November 2002

Cool ships

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TheWingedOne

6:27AM | Thu, 28 November 2002

WOW!!! Ships? Animals? Plants? I don't know for shure what they look like. But they look wonderful! Awesome job!!! :)))

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Poppi

11:25AM | Thu, 28 November 2002

wow...this just amazes me

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Longrider

8:48PM | Thu, 28 November 2002

Cool image and fantastic models as usual.

Tino64

10:13PM | Thu, 28 November 2002

Awesome mats and render!!

Sking

12:14AM | Fri, 29 November 2002

Great job on this image. Wonderful and interesting models. Well done. ---- Scott.

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Rayraz

3:30PM | Fri, 29 November 2002

I like the translucent look of your organic ships/plants/organisms.

GypZee

11:08PM | Sun, 01 December 2002

Very unique modeling. I've never seen 3d models that look like this. I'm definately going to check out Xfrog's capabilities if it can produce such symettrical and organic models. Impressive. They sort of look like the "filling" of some really expensive marbles I had as a kid.

tenacity

8:24AM | Sat, 07 December 2002

I love your work.

ocddoug

1:33AM | Tue, 10 December 2002

Killer detail in this, fabulous work!

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Pelican

6:22AM | Fri, 20 December 2002

Beautiful lifeform, seems to be semitransparent and reminds me of some esthetic underwater creatures like jelly fish or something like that... looks really excellent great modelling and render !!

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