Left hand down a bit.

Member : stephen

Image description
When I first read 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, more than 40 years ago. I worked out how deep that would be. 60,000 miles or 96,560 kilometres and since the Earth is 7,926 miles in diameter the Nautilus would be 52,074 miles above the other side. So here is my tribute to my younger self. As for the title “Left hand down a bit” it comes from the catch phrase of the BBC radio comedy “The Navy Lark” http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/comedy/progpages/navylark.shtml Which ran from 1959 to 1976. The actual phrase was uttered by Sub Lieutenant Leslie Phillips the most inept navigator in the Royal Navy. Who, “caused more damage to naval property than the Navy had done in two world wars.”

Description of how this image was created
The scene was built in Bishop3D with the figures imported from Poser, converted from Obj meshes by PoseRay. The Nautilus is made mostly from prisms and follows roughly the shape of pictures I found on the internet. I’ve had some advice from people on the Bishop3D forum, mostly Miri. Now it on to the animation challenge.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	13
Min. overall rating	:	7 (2 / 2 / 3)
Max. overall rating	:	42 (13 / 14 / 15)
Sum of rating	:	413 / 780
Date uploaded	:	2008-09-10 08:03:41

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	:	2 : 20 : 135 : 260
Concept	:	2 : 20 : 143 : 260
Technical	:	3 : 20 : 135 : 260
Overall	:	7 : 60 : 413 : 780

Comments by members when rating this image

1.   23-10-2008 Excel?! Not bad job modelling the ship. Looks quite alright. Not sure how effective a prop will be up there... 2.   20-10-2008 I remember that misconception of depth vs distance :-) I do like the idea of the Nautilus as a spaceship... Something to elaborate on perhaps... 3.   17-09-2008 yeah, wen I was a kid I had the same doubts about the title (although the German title makes that "only" 20.000 miles); The earth works ok, looks like you even tried to give it an atmosphere (which is a real challenge!), and the moon fits fine; the stars - um... well, interesting artistic choice :) but they fail to go along well with the way you did the earth and moon. Same with the Nautilus. Maybe some more variation in color or texture would have helped, and maybe some focal blur. Took me some time to discover the Posers, too - I guess you missed an opportunity there to add more color. Maybe could have elaborated more on the concept, too. 4.   05-10-2008 It looks like everybody thought about this concept, but at least you added another level of interpretation with the naive stars. But I would have liked to see something in between, perfect black on such a large surface is a bit aggressive. Some ambient for the dark side of the planet would reduce this impression. Is it a plain photograph of the earth? Anyway the colors are wonderful. Finally, the Nautilus is nice and detailed. I don't know if these hard edges are deliberate, but it looks like basic flat shading on a coarse model.