thank you Hyria! :)

I"m pretty much a newbie myself. what I did was download the ferris wheel model for the webing. It doesn't have much webbing but it sufficed for this project. I ungrouped the objects and deleted everything except for the spokes of the ferris wheel.
I created the torus in bryce and edited to be the ring.

I used the chain thang model for the center piece and merged 2 of them together then ungrouped them and deleted sections I didn't want.

I used the fire texture on any old terrain in bryce and zoomed in on it for the background.

I created all these as seperate pieces and then opened up photoshop. I started with the background image and then placed the ring and chain thang as layers on top of the background. I selected a small circle in the background and deleted that part from the chain thang. Then I added the skull that I already had stored on my computer and moved it to a layer behind the chain thang so that it was coming through the center. I used the blur tool to make it look more gruesome. then I used the smudge tool to smudge the lines of the chain thang to make it look like I wanted.

then back in bryce I created the metaball and brought it over in photoshop to create the string thingies hanging off the sides and bottom of the ring. last thing I did was add the rest of the skulls and blur them.

not sure if this meets the challenge criteria doing it this way but I have no idea how to actually create models. I"m lucky to be able to write my own name, so using graphic software has been an excellent way for me to create what's in my mind's eye.

just thought I'd let you know how I created this so anyone else that's as graphically challenged as I am can pick up some tips.

Silkie

Message edited on: 09/12/2004 12:15