TITLE: Cognitive Horror
NAME: Marlo Steed
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: marlo.steed@uleth.ca
WEBPAGE: http://www.edu.uleth.ca/faculty/members/steed/MarloSteed.html
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: steed.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Strata Studio Pro 2.5.3

TOOLS USED: 
    Strata StudioPro, Claycape 3D

RENDER TIME: 
    5 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Mac PowerPC G3

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

It is all in the mind.... fear, horror, and dread that is.  I purposely left the
scene fairly void of horrific objects because it not what see that elicits fear
it is what you can't see.  To that end I attempted to create the anticipation
or the aftermath of something horrific.  Your imagination can do the rest.  I
sent many hours experimenting with lights to get the affect I was after.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The pillars were created by Clayscape 3D by twisting and tapering a cube, the
resulting object was imported into Strata Studio Pro.  A Fog was applied to the
scene.  The flashlight had a spotlight attached to it and a omni light was
placed in the middle of the scene.  The textures for the burnt paper and old
english font, bump maps, and transparency maps were created in Painter using
its special affects.