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