before Myrna did become famous with the "Thin Man" movies
she appeared quite often as the "sinister Asian lady" in
b-pictures - probably most well known from this period:
"The Mask of Fu Manchu" from 1932.

A few years ago, while reading Thomas Pynchon's Vineland -
where one of the main characters starts to sing a song
about "...lookin' for that Myrna Loy" - I coincidently
found at a flee market an old signed picture card of her.
So I got interested in her work and carrier and now,
just for fun, have tried to create a Hollywood glamor shot
in the style of the early 30ies, featuring Myrna Loy...

The figure is Vicky 4.1 from DAZ. But as it was not possible
to morph her face into something that does come close to
Myrna's face (e.g. her nose was surprisingly big) I had to
do it the hard way and created my own "Myrna-Face-Morph"
with Blender by using all images of her that I could find as
reference.
The 30ies hairstyle was also a problem. As I am usually lazy,
I just wanted to buy one from DAZ or Renderosity, but did not
find any that looked the way I wanted. So I was finally forced
to created some "trans mapped" hair by myself. It looks not
very convincing in closeups but it is not so bad for a first
try. The flower is made with XFrog and PoseRay was used for
all the mesh conversion. The old style movie camera is just
some quick CSG.
The dragon is hand painted and imported with a flatbed scanner
into Photoshop where the image got its final touch.
Rendered with POV-Ray beta 25 using 7 lightsources (and the
new area_illumination feature does not only help in realistic
lighting, it also prevents mesh artefact's - thanks Warp).

Comments of course welcome and BTW the "Technicolor" version
is currently rendering.

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Outstanding, really!  I would never have guessed it weren't a real photograph
from seventy years ago if I hadn't seen it here.  Very nice job.  Hand painted
dragon, huh?

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Very nice! Better than real.

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Wow.  I sure don't need to tell you how impressive this is.  At first the right
hand struck me as too posed, but then I realized it's supposed to be.  And it'd
seem a shame to add film grain or a tone to such a nice clean image.  So I guess
I can't even offer much for constructive criticism.  Nice work.

 - Ricky

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"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote in message news:480e840a@news.povray.org...
> before Myrna did become famous with the "Thin Man" movies
> she appeared quite often as the "sinister Asian lady" in
> b-pictures - probably most well known from this period:
> "The Mask of Fu Manchu" from 1932.
>
> A few years ago, while reading Thomas Pynchon's Vineland -
> where one of the main characters starts to sing a song
> about "...lookin' for that Myrna Loy" - I coincidently
> found at a flee market an old signed picture card of her.
> So I got interested in her work and carrier and now,
> just for fun, have tried to create a Hollywood glamor shot
> in the style of the early 30ies, featuring Myrna Loy...
>
> The figure is Vicky 4.1 from DAZ. But as it was not possible
> to morph her face into something that does come close to
> Myrna's face (e.g. her nose was surprisingly big) I had to
> do it the hard way and created my own "Myrna-Face-Morph"
> with Blender by using all images of her that I could find as
> reference.
> The 30ies hairstyle was also a problem. As I am usually lazy,
> I just wanted to buy one from DAZ or Renderosity, but did not
> find any that looked the way I wanted. So I was finally forced
> to created some "trans mapped" hair by myself. It looks not
> very convincing in closeups but it is not so bad for a first
> try. The flower is made with XFrog and PoseRay was used for
> all the mesh conversion. The old style movie camera is just
> some quick CSG.
> The dragon is hand painted and imported with a flatbed scanner
> into Photoshop where the image got its final touch.
> Rendered with POV-Ray beta 25 using 7 lightsources (and the
> new area_illumination feature does not only help in realistic
> lighting, it also prevents mesh artefact's - thanks Warp).
>
> Comments of course welcome and BTW the "Technicolor" version
> is currently rendering.
>
>
Absolutely jaw dropping!

Excellent work (and I love the fact that you used so many different programs 
to make it!)

Cheers Dre

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Wow Ive!! You don't mess around. Fantastic job!

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[........]
Speechless!
Truly excellent work. Thanks for the explanations on how you got there.

Thomas

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Terrific return, Ive... the only clue that this isn't real are the hands, 
too big perhaps. But the face is amazing: looking at her eyes it's difficult 
to believe this is not a living person.

--
Jaime

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Ive <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote:
> before Myrna did become famous with the "Thin Man" movies
> she appeared quite often as the "sinister Asian lady" in
> b-pictures - probably most well known from this period:
> "The Mask of Fu Manchu" from 1932.
>
> A few years ago, while reading Thomas Pynchon's Vineland -
> where one of the main characters starts to sing a song
> about "...lookin' for that Myrna Loy" - I coincidently
> found at a flee market an old signed picture card of her.
> So I got interested in her work and carrier and now,
> just for fun, have tried to create a Hollywood glamor shot
> in the style of the early 30ies, featuring Myrna Loy...
>
> The figure is Vicky 4.1 from DAZ. But as it was not possible
> to morph her face into something that does come close to
> Myrna's face (e.g. her nose was surprisingly big) I had to
> do it the hard way and created my own "Myrna-Face-Morph"
> with Blender by using all images of her that I could find as
> reference.
> The 30ies hairstyle was also a problem. As I am usually lazy,
> I just wanted to buy one from DAZ or Renderosity, but did not
> find any that looked the way I wanted. So I was finally forced
> to created some "trans mapped" hair by myself. It looks not
> very convincing in closeups but it is not so bad for a first
> try. The flower is made with XFrog and PoseRay was used for
> all the mesh conversion. The old style movie camera is just
> some quick CSG.
> The dragon is hand painted and imported with a flatbed scanner
> into Photoshop where the image got its final touch.
> Rendered with POV-Ray beta 25 using 7 lightsources (and the
> new area_illumination feature does not only help in realistic
> lighting, it also prevents mesh artefact's - thanks Warp).
>
> Comments of course welcome and BTW the "Technicolor" version
> is currently rendering.

I think it is technically perfect. Glacial atmosphere. Sublime.

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>Ive wrote:
> before Myrna did become famous with the "Thin Man" movies
> she appeared quite often as the "sinister Asian lady" in
> b-pictures - probably most well known from this period:
> "The Mask of Fu Manchu" from 1932.
> [cut]

Lovely!
;-)
Paolo

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