Artwork created in 1999

• Renderer: POV-Ray
• A first version of this image was made in a few minutes for the celebration of Ken Tyler's birthday. The inspiration came from one of Mr Tyler's pictures, and from a picture by Lance Birch (look in the gallery section of Lance's web site, The Zone). The picture was later refined for the Book of Beginnings.
• The face is a Poser 4 mesh. It was converted to the PCM format with Warp's Mesh Compressor and then cut in half so that the top and bottom parts could be processed separately. The bottom part is a mesh, while the top part vertices were used to created the wire structure.
• The skin texture was created in several steps. First, the bottom part of the face was fed to UVMapper to obtain a UV map and create the UV coordinates. The resulting bitmap was used as a templace for the image_map and the bump_map. Particularly, the skin pores were created by spraying noise on the bump_map in Picture Publisher.
• The painters are Poser characters.
• The eye was obtained using one of SamuelT's wonderful bits of POV-Ray code.