A new mini-interview with Lovecraftian sculptor Bryan Moore, of Arkham Studios…

“[I] am currently creating a sculpture of H.P. Lovecraft for the city of Providence, Rhode Island”

The perils of Spore, a popular videogame with evolutionary aspects built in…

The [videogaming experience] that sticks in my mind was a result of my incessant playing with Spore’s creature creation tools. I spent one afternoon creating monsters from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, looking up their descriptions and trying to build creatures that perfectly matched Lovecraft’s vision. I felt at the time that I’d had little success, since Spore’s cutesy look left most of them looking more cuddly than terrifying.

I had completely forgotten this exercise as I played through the main game a few weeks later. My new species was [now autonomously] developing toward a tribal culture, and were learning to hunt in a pack and find fruit. Suddenly a huge shadow passed overhead, and with a ground-shaking crash, the great lord Cthulhu himself landed in front of us.

You see, Spore would randomly seed the game world with creatures you and your friends had made, sometimes in groups, and sometimes as larger solitary creatures. This was an [game-evolved] “epic” instance of Cthulhu, perhaps 100 feet tall. What had looked cute when I had made it was suddenly one of the scariest things I had ever seen. The hulking green monstrosity then proceeded to devour my entire tribe.

That’s right, in my game of Spore I had a budding civilisation wiped out by Cthulhu himself.

From 26th March – 1st April 2012, Sweden is to hold a Lovecraft convention.

Need a typewriter to go with your animated Lovecraft character? Here’s a nice 3D model of an antique typewriter in the standard 3D format of OBJ. Very similar to Lovecraft’s own, just swop out the Imperial logo for that of a 1906 Remington. Only $7, royalty-free, and it comes with a nice selection of hi-res textures including an “aged” look…

A couple of new works coming out of the recent free Z-Brush tutorial on sculpting a Deep One in virtual 3D…

Creature Spot…

And D.M. Armour, which captures more of the hybridity…

Sakke’s “Cthulhentai Type 2010“…

See also the typographic book ornament of the Infinity Tentacle by Andrew Strauss.

This is my upscaling to print-res of a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike picture from Rouge Spark and Frozen Moon. I hope it’ll be useful to someone. Could make a nice retro postcard, to act as a flyer for a film show or similar.