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.