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Ophelia
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:39 pm
by RonB
I was fascinated with the painting by John Everett Millais when I first saw a print of it many years ago in high school art class. His composition is wonderful and evokes the famous monologue where Queen Gertrude says, "There is a willow grows aslant the brook", and how Ophelia was, "incapable of her own distress".
I intended to do a modern urban take on it but Millais' painting is so rich I just went ahead and stayed with the original instead. I hope that isn't too cheesy.
Ron
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:23 am
by x_site
wonderful.... please tell us more about it... what did you use maya? plants by whom?
ta
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:01 am
by RonB
x-site,
Thanks for your comments. The scene elements were modeled and textured in Lightwave, rendered in Maxwell. The figure is a Daz model. The textures are from here and there that I have collected over the years. The cattail's are a model I picked up somewhere and reworked. The tree and rosebush I did with a Lightwave plugin by Pawel Olas called Tree Designer. The foliage was done with another Olas plug in called Leaves Generator. On the far right is some ivy from The Ivy Generator.
Lighting is HDRI as I wanted a more or less flat light.
Cheers,
Ron
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:44 pm
by kami
very nice adaption! didn't know the original though ...
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... is_003.jpg)
the only thing I didn't realize was, that she's lying in the water. so it's basically just the water material which doesn't work very good.
greets, kami
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:05 pm
by raja
interesting... i recently caught a documentary on Botticelli (bbc imagination series)... it mentioned the influence of the painting 'primavera' on Millais and others. Check the dressed lady on the right side of 'primavera'... and the flower arrangements...
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:37 pm
by Hervé
Hey Ron, this is very cool... maybe torture it in PS now a little...
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:59 pm
by JCAddy
I love the moss floating in the water. Looks great.
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:32 pm
by RonB
Thanks for the comments guys!
Herve, there is plenty of Photoshop post here...
Ciao,
Ron
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:41 pm
by lsega77
has a poetic and tragic (shakepearian tragic) feel to it. cool.
Luis
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:38 pm
by Leonardo
I don't want to sound like a hater... but your lady in the water looks life-less and plastic... kind of like a maniqui
Not that I could have done any better
You sure put a lot of effort and time in this piece and it shows though
leo
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:42 pm
by RonB
She just died a minute ago Leonardo...
Ron
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:16 pm
by Leonardo
RonB wrote:She just died a minute ago Leonardo...
Ron
well, she does look very stiff
