War of the Worlds - Men Hunting by czarnyrobert

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 24, 2006

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Description

And as the day came they became aware of a fighting-machine standing near by the Langham and looking down at them.

Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles swinging and rattling about its strange body [...] and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket.

Heaven knows how long he had been there. It must have given some of them a nasty turn. He came down the road towards them, and picked up nearly a hundred too drunk or frightened to run away.

Strange as it may seem to a human being, all the complex apparatus of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exist in the Martians. They were heads - merely heads. Entrails they had none.
They did not eat, much less digest. Instead, they took the fresh, living blood of other creatures, and injected it into their own veins. I have myself seen this being done. [...] Let it suffice to say, blood obtained from a still living animal, in most cases from a human being, was run directly by means of a little pipette into the recipient canal...
The bare idea of this is no doubt horribly repulsive to us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.

A Martian has only to go a few miles to get a crowd on the run. And I saw one, one day, out by Wandsworth, picking houses to pieces and routing among the wreckage. But they won't keep on doing that. So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the
best and storing us in cages and things. That's what they will start doing in a bit.
Lord! They haven't begun on us yet.

H.G. Wells 1898 "War of the Worlds"

If you want to learn how I made this scene, visit "SCENES" section of my website (I am still working on the "Making of the Men Hunting" - so some elements are missing yet, and it may happen that page don't open due to transfer limits - if it occurs, just try later.

To build the 1900 London I used mainly Alain Gracia's buildings (available at Cornucopia 3D), Poser 4 Low Polygon man & horse, narwik's bridge, Bernard Dumas Renault G, and some other stuff from the net (more credits & links on my website)

If there is something you would like to know about this scene that is not mentioned on my website's article, just let me know - as I said I am still working on it, so I can add some further explanations.

I hope you will like this picture.

Take care :-)

Robert

Comments (264)

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davidrivera

11:00PM | Wed, 29 March 2006

Superb!! Composition is excellent and the lighting is on them mark.

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CDBrugg

10:03PM | Sun, 23 April 2006

absolutely bloody amazing!!!!!

Lubna

6:52AM | Sun, 30 April 2006

FABULOUS! HOLY SHIT MAN!!! u really rock This is a MAJOR piece of art... my compliments. I think that the sepia version is more "esthetic" but that one, because its size too, is more interesting, you can spend a while just trying to see all the details and Im sure I missed some. Merci 1000 x

flanogro

1:25AM | Wed, 10 May 2006

inprove? more standing and atonished croud.

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Forevernyt

3:54PM | Wed, 17 May 2006

I know I'm late to this party but...WOW. Outstanding. I'm hoping to learn a lot from you!

scott53

9:45PM | Sun, 28 May 2006

I don't know what else i could possibly add It is brilliant vision

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FaTHeROmNIuS

10:43PM | Mon, 05 June 2006

I'm no critic, but I find this a true rendering

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-deco-

9:39PM | Thu, 15 June 2006

Oh, that is awesome!

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beowlar

5:33PM | Sat, 17 June 2006

Outstanding and excellent scene!!!!!!!! Wish I could Vote!

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DOM1

9:02PM | Sat, 17 June 2006

Great render, although I would have added more smoke and fire in the foreground buildings. This would make it even more realistic.

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nosawayne

10:25PM | Sat, 17 June 2006

Very very cool. I always loved the book, and was disappointed by the movie. Your image does the original story justice . . . Incredible!

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SpideR_PL

5:33AM | Sun, 18 June 2006

Outstanding image. Great idea and work. Bravo!!

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triple7

6:36PM | Mon, 19 June 2006

exellent nothing as scary as this looks real

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zachary

2:51AM | Mon, 26 June 2006

I'm "fan" of you ! Awesome !!! Bravo robert !

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pregiato

6:27PM | Fri, 30 June 2006

EXCELLENT,WONDERFUL,Fantastic.

drxian

5:54PM | Wed, 05 July 2006

nicely done..

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DIANE603

8:27PM | Thu, 06 July 2006

OUTSTANDING!!

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rikriot

7:34PM | Sat, 08 July 2006

WoW were noth worthy!

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NocturnalRamble

5:43PM | Sat, 15 July 2006

Holy !!! This is awesome. Such detail. Most amazing work. WOW!!

mbs42

11:46AM | Sat, 22 July 2006

Superb assemblage of excellent, detailed models.

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mikeywilliam

2:46PM | Sun, 30 July 2006

OH MAN YEAH!! Truley a story book image! Such great detail and lots of stuff to look at! Michael

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Pelican

7:16AM | Wed, 09 August 2006

WOW... perfect is not enough to describe this scene !!! Most original in here - the early century look... a very special creation... way beyond excellent ! I love this !!!

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lesbentley

2:55PM | Wed, 09 August 2006

Stunningly good!

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Fugueman

4:46PM | Mon, 14 August 2006

WOW!!! This has got to be one of the most complicated scense I've ever Come across!!! Vue Must be a very cool program! Poser would have told me to go #*## my self (LOL)if I tried to render something like this... BRAVO!

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