TITLE: The Ghost of H.P. Lovecraft
NAME: Kevin Pisarsky
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: pawprint@neo.rr.com
WEBPAGE: http://home.neo.rr.com/pawprint
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: kpgohpl.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Metacreations Bryce 4

TOOLS USED: 
    35MM camera and scanner for textures, Poser3 for basic human form
creation

RENDER TIME: 
    46 minutes 4 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 450


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  This image is a compilation of cemetery artwork; almost all the textures used
in the
  image are from real tombstones, crypts, mausoleums, and other funerary
objects.  Since
  H.P. Lovecraft, the author of many gothic horror tales, has a very small and
unassuming
  tombstone in reality, I thought it would be nice to create an image depicting
the type
  of formidable tomb he should have had.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

  While travelling through Southern Ohio, I stopped at cemeteries and took
numerous pictures
  on 35mm film for use later as textures.  Many of these pictures were close-ups
of corroded
  tomb doors, tombstones, etc.  Notice the shackled hand at the left; this was
something I saw
  on 3 real tombstones, all within the same area of Ohio.  The photographs have
generated some
  interest from cemetary art scholars and people local to that area - nobody
seems to know what
  the shackled hand represents, although there are many theories.  I scanned the
prints from the   
  35mm film, imported them into Bryce 4 as parametric textures, and assigned
them to my wireframe 
  objects.  Most of the objects are made from Bryce primitives, although the
form of H.P. Lovecraft 
  was made by importing a human figure from Poser 3 and manipulating the figure
mesh in Bryce.