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6 Oct 2024 05:43:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: WIP Skullhead  
From: FractRacer
Date: 20 Mar 2014 11:59:11
Message: <532b104f$1@news.povray.org>

> /Vanitas/ is what this is called.

Thank you for the translation.


> Well done. I like this very much, especially the dramatic lighting of
> the skull. The play with reflections on the glass ball and bottle is
> certainly an essential touch. I am no too sure about the skull sculpture
> at the back. While in accordance with the Aztec painting, it distracts
> from the real skull. Maybe you should replace it by something else.
>
> Thomas

You are right, too many objects in the back, the original painting (from 
Philippe de Champaigne) is composed of a bottle with a flower, the skull 
and the hourglass); I have try to modified the composition but not in 
the good way. Simplicity is often better than complexity.

Lionel.

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