Ophelia

Ophelia#267596

By RonB - Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:39 pm

- Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:39 pm #267596

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

#267624

By x_site - Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:23 am

- Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:23 am #267624

wonderful.... please tell us more about it... what did you use maya? plants by whom?
ta

... life has teach me nothing!...

d(-_-)b

#267626

By RonB - Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:01 am

- Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:01 am #267626

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

#267651

By kami - Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:44 pm

- Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:44 pm #267651

very nice adaption! didn't know the original though ...
(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

#267655

By raja - Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:05 pm

- Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:05 pm #267655

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...