In short: 





The program:

The picture was modelled and raytraced with Caligari Truespace for Windows, 
which is an excellent program for "sculptural" 3D work.

Background::

The given objects were related to aircrafts and flying, which made me think
of birds, eggs and the evolution of aircrafts from studying birds flying.

The picture::

The eggs started as cubes that were "smoothed" into spheres, and then 
stretched and manipulated until they had the egg shape. The surface is a
kind of orange peel bump map, with additional bump maps with the text.
The second egg was sliced in several parts, and given different textures,
like green glass and a reflective slightly translucent "glassy" brass. Inside
the egg the airplane was mapped onto a reflective sphere.
The paperlike sheet in the background was made as a cube and bent and 
stretched until it resembled an old sheet of construction paper. The 
construction drawing object, which also is in the left hand background as
a texture map, was mapped on this as a bump map. 
The letters were sweeped/extruded and bent and stretched so that they followed
the shape of the first egg and then turned away and down into the ground.
The lighting was made with one blue light outside the view to the left. And
also a green light behind the biggest egg. There's also a yellowish spotlight 
above the objects/camera, which colors the eggs, which were actually quite 
neutral grayish white without this light.


Me: Bjorn Kare Nilssen


I'm 42 years old, from Kristiansand, Norway (The southern sunny part :-)
I have 2 small children and one wife.
I work mainly as an "analog" artist, with ceramics, sculpture e.a. I also
work as a programmer, making various Windows programs, mainly an application
that reads car number plates realtime with a video camera.
I'm using 3D programs a lot in both my jobs. 

  bjoernk@oslonett.no