Relentless Progress

Member : JuuG

Image description
Dreamt up in a dark mood, a pessimistic view of mankind’s inexorable progress - A spring tide, flood, storm, whatever, has revealed a flint axe in the silt under a bridge. A MiG fighter screams overhead - The imagery between the MiG and the relics is too obvious to mention, but really the title is in the big, ugly, unyielding bridge. It symbolises endless generations of man, repeating itself yet always moving forward, remorselessly heading to who knows where - And now I must get my optimism back. I do have an opposite view I am hoping to enter.

Description of how this image was created
The difficulty with this scene was making the axe recognisable as a weapon. I looked at lots of images on Google but in the end I just had to accept that stone-age axe-heads look rather like... stones. The axe head is a blob object. For those who use POV-Ray I literally chiselled out a flattened cylinder with negative spheres. The silt is a height field. The skull is the excellent (if too expensive) Daz morphing skull. I actually morphed it back 3 million years which is probably a bit too far for the stone age but what the heck - it’s a picture not a history lesson - come to that I have never seen an infinite bridge either. The bridge (loosely based on the Coleman Bridge) is CSG. I am sure I could have drawn the MiG if I had had to (honest) but I found a free model on the net and then added afterburner effect with media.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	12
Min. overall rating	:	15 (5 / 5 / 5)
Max. overall rating	:	43 (15 / 14 / 14)
Sum of rating	:	387 / 720
Date uploaded	:	2009-05-22 16:09:10

Specific details Note: The maximum value below is misleading as the voting system has changed. If the member votes for all the entries and has created one him/herself, there is an automatic 20/20/20 score added to the value (This encourages all members who enter to vote).
Rating type	:	Min : Max : Sum : Out of
Artistic	:	5 : 15 : 120 : 240
Concept	:	5 : 14 : 138 : 240
Technical	:	5 : 14 : 129 : 240
Overall	:	15 : 43 : 387 : 720

Comments by members when rating this image

1.   23-06-2009 Nice scull! 2.   17-06-2009 Good job on the flint. Lousy job on the skull & soil. Good job on the bridge. Lousy job on the background. Interesting concept. Lousy image. You can do better (as you have proven with your other shot). 3.   16-06-2009 I don't like saying this but it seems to me that largely you have just pasted other peoples models in a fairly random fashion