Big Brother Media Shower
34" x 48" DisplayMaker Print
© 1996 Dan Younger/ArtStuff
"Big
Brother Media Show" shows another of the plastic space toys - this
time a bubble ship - hovering low over an alien landscape at dusk
during an unusual media shower. The visage of Big Brother is seen on
the TV's.
Technical Stuff:
The landscape for this image was made in Vista Pro, from a pattern created in Photoshop. Once rendered, it was placed in a Photoshop layer in front of a cloud photo. The sky around the clouds were made transparent by placing a gray scale image of the same clouds in an associated layer mask. The clouds were rendered rose colored by using the Colorize option in the Hue Saturation dialog box. Layered behind the clouds is the starfield photo used in most of these images.
To make the rocket, I scanned the flat plastic toy, and created a path of the shape of the outline. I used that path to create an extruded shape in Ray Dream Designer on which I mapped the picture of the toy. Then all that was left was to turn & light the object in Ray Dream Designer and render the image that became the rocket. The TV's come from the same Ray Dream file as the TV's in the other images. They were rotated in Ray Dream (to keep the same light source) & rendered out one at a time, then pasted in Photoshop and sized to fit the requirements of perspective.