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Creating the Church
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Sleepy Hollow
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| The church was created using Bryce 5 in much the same way as the Sand Castle was built. The church window shown below was given a mask and then edited so that the panes were removed. Please note that all thumbnails can be clicked to bring up a larger image. |
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Once the alpha channel image was saved as a .tga, it was used on a plane in Bryce 5and made ready for the next step which was to place the inside of the church on another plane behind it .
The interior of the church was taken by holding the camera up against the glass pane of one of the windows at The Old Narragansett Church in Wickford, RI.. Here also is hoiw it looked after the alpha masking in Photoshop using Extensisi Mask Pro.
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| One of the four original colonial parishes in Rhode Island, this church was built in 1707. It includes antique communion silver, slave gallery and the oldest church organ in North America, built in 1680. Gilbert Stuart was baptized there in 1755. Moved to its present location on Church Lane in 1800. The church organ is over three centuries old. Another section of the site contains more information about the church. The next photo will show the interior placed behind the church window plane in Bryce. More on The Old Narragansett Church |
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The scene was sunny but with some lighting I was able to make it appear more eerie and glowing than sunshine filled!
The ghosts were made by distorting some lattices and texture mapping with a Bryce preset with glowing qualities.
The jack-o'-lantern was a photo of one I had in the living room for Hallowe'en.
The sign on the exterior of the church was made by using a real historical house plaque and changing the text on it.
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| The rest of the spookiness was created by using a horseman fronm the font Yeehaw, taking off his head and painting in a flowing cape in Photoshop. |
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He is shown here in reversed color so that he can be seen on the black background. To get his shadow, I used a parallel light in Bryce and the horseman as a Gel on that light and aimed it at the side of the church building.
The trees were used in the same way. I was quite surprised with the ease with which the gel is added to the lights! To the left are photos of trees just outside my windows taken last winter which were used as gel on 2 more lights. Click the link below to see the set up for the lights with gel images in Bryce 5.
The Gel Light Tutorial
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