Funhouse Hi-rez Variation
This image was created just for fun. After I finished the project Funhouse for Worlds, Inc, I liked the design so much I decided to create a higher rez version,  incorporating some of the plants used in Alien Bouquet image. The idea is to create "the familiar", but in an unfamiliar and unusual way: you can clearly see that it's a house with a garden, but you wouldn't find this garden anywhere...

I used 3D Studio Max 2.5, Painter 5.0 for textures and Cebas Optic Suite (for the flares).

©Copyright 1998 Eni Oken

Finalist for the 1999 category: Fantasy Worlds

Tip: This image relies heavily on hand-painted texture work. Most of the textures were created using Painter 5.0, which is able to produce very poetic, hand-painted effect, as you can see by this example, applied to the small bulbous plants in front of the house. The mapping coordinates are cylindrical. In order to give a more random effect, I made several copies of the plant, varying it's shape, size and fatness.