January 25, 1993

   This is a frame of a object that was originaly a very well
done Imagine (compliments to the author!!) object. The problem was, the
Imagine object was cool, but I work with LightWave a lot. So I converted
the object with John Faust's Interchange Plus into a complex scene file with
over 140 parts for LightWave 2.0. I am into the 80th hour of texture map and
bump map creation for this object. I intend to take the object down to 1
meter detail. There will be over 40 functioning light sources tuned to this
object as well as over 75 custom texture wraps. I am working from the best
detailed drawings that I have been able to find. I am 2/3rds the way done and
had to render some test frames. Here is one of them. I haven't optimized the
object yet.. took a 50mhz 68030 system 10 hours at Hi Rez with shadows
(ray-traced). I intend to do a lot more detailing with bump/diff maps and
work on the windows. Hope you like it. I will upload some more images as I
get closer. My goal is to smoke the original real model object used in the
series!
I have a way's to go...

Greg Heifner
Heifner Communications
314-445-6163.