The Depths of Orthanc by Rykk

Fractal • Surrealism • posted on Aug 06, 2003

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Ultrafractal 3.02 - Columns and skulls by Apophysis-1 - 110 layers, ouch! ;>) Deep in the bowels of the earth beneath Orthanc, citadel of Saruman the White, lies the maze of passageways wherein lies the Chamber of the Seeing Stone containing the Eye of Orthanc. Of old, the elven Eldar of Valinor had bequeathed to the race of Men numerous "seeing stones" with which they might have contact in their vigil against the evil Morgoth in his fortress, Barad-dur. From the glow eminating from the chamber it seems that, once again, Saruman is gazing into the stone and falling ever deeper in thrall to Sauron, the Eye of Mordor... Thanks for stopping by!

Comments (54)

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DennisReed

12:35AM | Fri, 08 August 2003

Fantastic artwork! Awesome image to match the storyline. I also am blown away by the amount of work that went into this (110 layers) is there a Guinus(sp) record? Bravo!

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Pannyhb

9:08AM | Fri, 08 August 2003

Hubba Hubba! 110 layers, and each and every one incredible. Rykk, you amaze me. Every time I think you can't get any better, you pop in with something simply irresistable. I'm muy impressed! This one should be in a museum.

kgm

12:18PM | Fri, 08 August 2003

I love looking at your compositions, Rykk. They're always so intruiging, with tons to occupy the eyes and the imagination. Pure genius!

Hillary

11:40AM | Sat, 09 August 2003

Nothing left to say that hasn't been said before; beautiful one.

beyondthezero

3:00PM | Sat, 09 August 2003

Totally first rate. I especially like the glowing globes within the tetrahedrons, and I kind of want to know what's in the globes.

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SimonKane

7:01PM | Sat, 09 August 2003

Don't know how I managed to miss this one before, and it seems now that everyone's said everything there is to say! :-) Very, very impressive!

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Longrider

7:35AM | Sun, 10 August 2003

A cool story and an excellent image in every aspect. You got a cool imagination man. This is very well done,Rock on my man.

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avalonfaayre

6:27PM | Sun, 10 August 2003

Oooooohh! Fantastic. This is why you are a favorite.

gallimel

7:11AM | Mon, 11 August 2003

And again one can't fail to love your works of sublime emotion :)

CriminallyInsane

12:50PM | Mon, 11 August 2003

Am I going insane or this is a re-use of the background from your last posting, lol. I really like the way you have created the tunnel by placing the wall in front of it. I also like the christmas chains hanging from the roof, lol. I must admit that the reflections of the skull poles does bug me a little bit. I would have been tempted to put them in last as post work. It gets an excellent anyway and a vote! Just because I wouldn't know where to start doing this in UF! Nice work.

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Rykk

12:45AM | Tue, 12 August 2003

Ok, so I finally got it figured out and have oriented to skulls in the proper direction. Sure wish "mirror" mapping worked on flames! lol Rykk

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sinancanan

7:05AM | Tue, 12 August 2003

Unbelievable! 101 layers in UF!! But the result compells me to believe! Excellent masterpiece...

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musada

7:24AM | Tue, 12 August 2003

I'm kinda with smithgiant on this one (except I'm from 2D Fractaland. But my bit of trying to pick up UF and apophysis app. gives me great appreciation of the effort. By the way, pretty much all of the 5-6 are on this comment list. Thanks

pennylane

6:55PM | Tue, 12 August 2003

OMG!! i don't understand how you manage to do this sh.... uhmmm.... how you manage to create these amazing images... anything over about 7 layers and i'm through... and if i ever had to plan anything out.... not a chance in h... right, it would never happen... smile please, Rykk, keep up the excellent work

Isir

4:21AM | Wed, 13 August 2003

Everything has already been said, so I'll just go and vote for this brilliant piece :)

thomas_e

12:44PM | Wed, 13 August 2003

Incredible what you created with non-3D-software! This is really exceptional and impressing. Breaking new ground for Fractal software. A wonderful masterpiece!

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