Louis Rundio Sinclair

rundio@visi.com

Guard

This image was created using Imagine for DOS 4.0. The skull is the one that came with Imagine. A recent trip to England got me interested in all things medieval, especially swords and armour. This image was primarily an excuse to use a sword and helmet I made.

The stone walls are simple planes with photographs of stones from walls at Winchester Cathedral that I had processed direct to photo CD. (I highly recommend this for textures. Take a camera out and take a couple rolls of film of walls, wood, cement, rugs, and anything else you can think of. It costs about $30 (U.S.) to develop the entire roll to photo CD.)

The wood floor is made of individual boards mapped with a photo of real wood.

This was also my first use of soft shadows. This added a lot to the realism and mood of the picture.