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The Inner Sanctum 5 - WorkDoc
🕑 Added 2018-11-18 08:54:28 +0000 UTCMetamorphose
Before picking up the storyline of chapter 4, we go back in time once more, to the glorious day Harry discovered The Temple. After finding the manuscript in the library as a young student (see Chapter 3), Harry has been travelling around the world, searching for the mysterious place mentioned in those ancient documents. Piece by piece, we get to know a bit more about the background of our hero. This chapter will answer the question of how he ended up wandering around stark naked in that ruinous labyrinth.
NOTE: You can download a PDF version of this WorkDoc at the bottom of this post. This was made by Andrea, and you can find a complete version of his beautiful project on the Priapus Encyclopedia page.
As the chapters are created randomly, the overall storyline is somewhat fragmented. If we place the current bits and pieces chronologically, I imagine the adventure started with the Revelations at the library (Chapter 3). Followed by the current Chapter 5, where he discovers The Temple and undergoes the Metamorphoses into the bulky red-headed hero. From thereon, we see him wandering around in the Temple corridors, going deeper in Ad Fundum, and reaching the centre of the structure in the Inner Sanctum series (Chapters 1, 2, 4, and probably ending with Chapter 6). The Genesis story is a bit harder to fit into this pattern. It was a commission, and perhaps the sci-fi theme remains something to be developed further in the future.
For the van in the first scenes of this project, I used a wonderful model of the VW Type 2. The van was originally introduced in the 1950s and became a hippy icon of counterculture in the Swinging 60s. It has become an old-timer by now, for you hardly see them anymore, and they look remarkably small in modern traffic.
The landscape is based on a model called Nature Canyon, with the Red Sands Temple in the middle, which, of course by many of you recognise as The Treasury building at Petra. The site gained particular fame after being featured in the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie, in which its facade is represented as the entrance to the final resting place of the Holy Grail. The place seems to hide many secrets indeed!
The interior of the round temple dungeon is based on a model called Occultum, with elements of Ancient Prophecies and The Internment Tomb (for the stairs). The different sets of sculptures in the rooms are not based on any specific works of art. When one looks around, it's not that hard to find inspiration in bronze.
Below are some test renders of the different groups of sculptures used in this chapter and one image with an overview of the dungeon layout.
Related sections of this project:
Chapters
The Inner Sanctum 1 and 2 - The Corridor of Passions and The Minotaur
The Inner Sanctum 3 - Revelations
The Inner Sanctum 4 - The Antechamber
The Inner Sanctum 5 - Metamorphose
The Inner Sanctum 6 - The Inner Core
The Inner Sanctum 7 - Graphic Novel
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Comments
Wow. Your world-building is out of this world
Greg Hancock
If you go and check out the blog and look for Laocoon you see that happening to the male hero figure there, is REALLY cool and the artwork is excellent as always. Hope David uses that theme a lot more in future works.
Greg Hancock
Was cool seeing him with a few hunky friends, and could be something could go back to as Harry changes and then goes and gets his friends...… who knows
Greg Hancock
Would working Laocoon into this be an option, look back and then forward to Harry's time???
Rob Kottenbrock
I'm imagining the animation.... mmmmmmmm
pou
I hope the tentacles secrete fluid that enlongate the cock and swell the testicles
Priapus of Milet
Yes, It's that same one and in this chapter he is glad he found it, for he recognizes it form the manuscript, so knows he' s at the right place. I wanted to do something different in chapter 3, so we traveled back in time, to the younger Harry as a student and well, then you're not on you'r own. So I added a few students to have a bit of fun with.
Hi again! it's inner sanctum 3 revelations parallel lives. That one got me excited but confused a bit, cuz in all other stories in the arc is just Harry by himself.
Hi! I remember you had a project somewhere that's very similar to the relief that has 12 figures on, it's about a young Harry and his friends(not as statues), and it's probably in the whole genisis-temple-ad fundum-inner sanctum story arc. May I ask where about it is and would you consider continuing that story? Your works are so amazing and realistic that I feel unreal XD
Priapus of Milet
Thanks Sunnie! Glad you like the series and I'll keep that in mind.
Sunnie Chiang
Well done! These are masterpieces and I enjoy looking at each one of them. I hope u still remember I like the idea of big guy vs small guys. Maybe you can think of Harry being surrounded and captured by a group of small people as he keep exploring into the deep of temple. Keep on the good work!
Priapus of Milet
Yes, you're tight, I know what you mean. They do indeed resemble the carvings I have seen in a museum, in Paris, if I remember well. I think they're called a cameo.
Michael
These "haut-reliefs" (sorry I don't have the word in English) remind me of famous Roman "camés" (again). I wish I had to learn these in my history of art courses.
Priapus of Milet
Ah, yeas, that's an interesting idea! Perhaps something to combine when Harry reaches the inner core of the temple. That should reveal the origin of the temple as well. Thanks!
Anis
i hope u can expand the story and bring us back to how the temples were built by whom...it like the story of Prometheus.....some bigger than us humans.
Priapus of Milet
That sound as a great way to put it and yes, without the text everyone can interpret the story in his own way and add his own fantasies. And by the way, I don't think it would look nice to insert those text balloons into these images ;o)
Joël
This is exactly what I think. Harry is like a mythological character, everyone rebuilds the hero according to his desires. That's why I like the fact that you make stories without words, it makes them more universal.
Priapus of Milet
Yes, perhaps the chronological inconsistencies and gaps leave more room for the the imagination of the viewer and leaves us puzzling how it all might fit together in the end. And it gives me more liberty to jump in at any moment of time and place ;o)
Joël
Over time, you have created different strata around Harry: science fiction, heroic fantasy, something from "Resident Evil" and even a good dose of Freudianism (the theme of the double/multiple and of course the inevitable « snakes »). Like the piling up of legends of mythological Hercules, it is difficult to combine his adventures into a coherent narrative, but that's also what makes this new Alcide so interesting. Alright even if you talk about an episode 6 conclusive, I'm sure we will have the pleasure of finding the boiling Harry in other adventures and other worlds, you have the imagination fertile.
Priapus of Milet
Thanks! :O)
Michel Dreyfus C
Wooof Great a Work
Priapus of Milet
Thanks Joël, Yes, that order of events seems to be working as well and gives another interesting sequence of events! It looks like several different combinations are possible, so that gives me more freedom for chapter 6 ;o)
Joël
I forget one : "Revelations", "Metamorphoses", "The Inner Sanctum" and "The Antechamber" for the second story.
Joël
Hi. I would have grouped "Genesis", "The Temple", "Ad Fundum" and "Inner Ring" as a complete story. And "Revelations", "Metamorphoses" and "The Antechamber" (in this order) as the beginning of a parallel story. But I do not know how you plan to finish chapter 5, or what you have in mind for chapter 6. Congratulations again for the quality of your work. Good week.
