Neon mooN Originally created: January 2002 (additional text added to image December 2004) Note: this is not a real CD cover. - It is a mockup. Created with: * BRYCE 5 (no postwork other than added text) * Photoshop (for added text) About: ------ Flashback to the year of 2002.... Originally this file was called: " light_study-01f " because that's all it was, a study and experimentation on how I could make lighting do interesting things. The scene was actually constructed merely to serve one purpose, and that was as a test bed for testing free downloaded BRYCE MAT's from the net. - The scene stayed the same and I would merely apply various MAT's to the objects to see how they looked under a single non-changing light setup then I'd save the image to disk along with the MATs with the pic being a guide to how the MAT's looked for me. But I got to playing around with one MAT that made transparent sections in objects and then I thought "I wonder what would happen if I stuck a really bright light INSIDE an object that had transparent cut-out bits? - How would the lightbeams look coming out of them?" This image was the result of a developing set of experiments. I started out in bright light and did various versions darker and darker. - This version looks about the best of them. I particularly like the way the strong light from inside the cut-out sphere plays across, up and over the various objects and the various MATs. I adjusted the sphere's MAT so that the cut-out sections would allow the light streams to hit the objects. I've got so many MAT's now that finding that particular one would be hard but luckily at that time (when I had time!) I annotated credits to MAT's when I added them into my library(s). The credits for that sphere MAT look to be: * "A little different" by Lannie Flashforward to the year 2004.....(actually the last day of 2004!)..... I was online downloading some free MP3's (yes there are actually legal MP3's for free put out by artists), and as I was wandering the place and listening to the music I wondered how an image of mine would look as a CD cover. I created a psuedo CD cover for that image then set about seeing if another would work. "Neon mooN" is the result of that second work. The title "Neon mooN" is just something I dreamed up since the image is neon-like and I wanted a word that visually balanced out the title properly with 'neon'. - (No doubt there's a million 'Neon Moon' things in the world but no inference to them by me is intentional.) Music by artists I can listen to while working on my projects can often be found & downloaded at: CNET DOWNLOAD.COM http://music.download.com/ For this image I particularly like the MP3 below: sector7seven-Dont_Follow_the_Stream_(Radio_Remix_2).mp3 by sector7seven Do a search for " sector7seven " on the above site and listen for yourself. :-) Don't follow the stream get into your dream though it's quite extreme we need you to feel it, feel the rhythms high, lift your wings and fly, we're dancing....we're dancing in the night Z.