David Wilkinson wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 05:10:30 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

> >   In my own interpretation of horror however I have an entirely
> >different point of view. I expect to see monsters, disfigured humans,
> >atrocities against nature, blood, guts, dripping goo, moss hanging
> >from forbidding trees and slime covered rock walls, dungeons, tools
> >for torture, nooses, guillotines, headless horsemen, Frankenstien
> >monsters, mummies, vampires, vehicles smashing together with body
> >parts flying everywhere, worms crawling out of eye sockets and bugs
> >from gapping bloody gashes in human flesh, dripping oozing boils on
> >pretty young faces, death and destruction in every single pixel of
> >the image, and you know just plain scary, frightening, horror related
> >imagery.

	The issue here is as always the many meanings of a word. Horror
as a movie genre is what you describe. According to the
dictionary, Dennis the Menace is a horror, and when she was good
she was very, very good, and when she was bad she was horrid. All
three are legitimate. Even being horrified at a D in History on a
report card is legitimate. 

	I would also point out that outside of Hollywood, Halloween and
horror have nothing in common yet that was the intent by the
scheduling. The dead may have walked but they did not come back
to kill. 

	If I were king I would have stated the theme as a traditional
Halloween theme. But even then, trick or treating, pumpkins and
such started in the 1930s in the US if I remember correctly and
does not exist in Europe. Sort of like when Queen Victoria
married a German and the Christmas Tree replaces the English Yule
Log. In one generation Brits were telling their children the tree
was an English tradition. 

	My own cockroach theme was simply my desire to create images I
have never seen with POV. I'll fit that into any theme that comes
up. I knew it was a no-win when I had to model a cockroach, too
organic. But if the animation theme is ever "Famous Science
Fiction Scenes" you will see him again. He is pre-animated. And
the title of the book on the mantle is a pun on where most people
first heard of the six foot cockroach. (Not to embarass anyone
but it was a 60s movie. Most would hear of or see the movie
before knowing of the book.) 

	With all my wordiness, that is not horror. What I originally
conceived was partially reflected skeleton and a real skeleton
arm reaching to touch the cockroach leg at the mirror. At least I
learned what I have to learn to do that right but even all those
months were not enough so I did not bother. But that would have
been approaching being horrified at looking in the mirror. (And a
body on a bed in the background. To make up for all that I
settled for a cross on the background wall.) And for anyone who
was curious, there is no mirror. Such was the extent of the
cheat. 

	Bringing it all back home, the problem is still setting the
theme. I mentioned this with Landmark which sounded fine until
the explanation included the blue fireplug. Why not "A man-made
or natural structure which when it is seen most people will
connect with a geographic location on earth"? Of course there
would have been many "This is Sherwood Forest"s and such and the
inevitable pyramids and space ships from Hollywood World in
Orlando. 

	But every renderer baselines on monuments. That would prohibit
no one. 

	As a parting shot, creativity grows from restriction not freedom
despite the modern slop that passes for art. 

	If the theme were the Washington Monument (to keep it easy) or
the Arc de Triumphe to make it a challenge and the competition
would be much more interesting. !20+ ways to view the same thing. 

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