Christian medieval imagery was full of such images pointing towards the fact that mortality applied to all of us both large and small. So just behave!.
The skull was textured using noisy dirt vertexes and bumps.
The millipede single cell was first created in sculpt and then a 136 piece array - thanks to JW for his excellent array tutorials.
The candle was 'waxed' in sculpt and then a little SSS applied. The floor and wall are bump maps.
Originally rendered at 3840 x 3840 Cycles @ 500 samples standard studio lighting.
