FROM THE COMMUNITY COLLECTION

Who goes there?

Made with Bryce

Created by davidbrinnen

The screaming of the hounds was silenced by an abrupt salvo of gunshots. We tracked the last dog, the interloper, across the glistening pack ice, it's bloody paw prints standing out in the hollow glare of our halogen lamps. A shape loomed ahead. It didn't look like a dog. But after what we had just witness in the dog enclosure - we were ready for that. I struck up a flair and sent it spinning across the frozen ground. It stopped just short of the "dog". As we approached, it slumped onto its side, its distended belly splitting from end to end, pushed apart by a boiling mass of greasy tenticles. Legs beating uselessly against the ground, it lifted its head and let out a groan of pain which racked up the scale into a terrible almost human scream... The thing- Doc grabbed my arm. Spitting profaninities, he snarled, "TORCH IT!" The flamethower erased the scene from my eyes in a blinding curtain of purifing heat. In the silence which followed, Doc asked me, "How long was he alone with that dog?" I knew exactly who he meant. "Too long." Doc nodded, reloaded his revolver. "Man is the warmest place to hide..." * * * Another "The Thing" inspired image with a bit of text to add to the atmophere if you don't mind my bad spelling and grammer. I believe "EasyNow" over on DA set me on this challange, to recreate the gore effects of the film in Bryce, particulary to get that latex model and petrolium jelly look. This is my first go, in Bryce 5.5, the dog model was set up in Poser5, imported into Wings3D for distortion and mutilation, transfered to DAZstudio to import in through to Bryce and then props were added once again with the aid of Wings3D. I then created a mask in Adobe Photoshop7, used that in Corel Photopaint7 to add some radial motion blur and finally Layered that back together with the original image in Paint Shop Pro7. This was done, beacuse as it stood, the unmodified render seemed a bit sterile and I wanted to add some sense that things were happening. Incidentally, did you notice I slipped in the tag line for the 1980's film up there in the text?