Rene Bui wrote:
> The Twin Girls with a Pearl Earring
> after Vermeer (1658 ?)
> 
> Hi all,
> This is my POVCOMP wip. I don't know if it was a good idea to post this
> image according to the rule of anonymity, but I can't wait for your
> opinions.

This is one of the best renderings of a human head I've seen.  Looking 
through many 3d art sites (thanks to the links provided by Gilles), I 
was struck by how many of them had adopted this bizarre video-game 
sexy-mannequin female as a supposedly realistic ideal.  This is totally 
the opposite.  It captures the human quality so well.  If I knew more 
about art, I could probably identify why.  It might be the slight 
overbite, or the roundness to the jowls -- something.  But this is 
really remarkable.  And the textures and draping of the cloth is 
perfect.  Get this finished and turned in, please!

A few more like this, and the contest will have plenty of examples of 
what POVRay can do in the hands of artists.

> It is completly handmade in Wings with the magical and very useful *tweak*
> tool, then rendered in Mlpov/Pov 3.5.

This is probably ^why^ it's so much better than the commercial, canned 
POSER figures.

And when the contest is over, perhaps you can write a tutorial.  Many of 
us would be very grateful.

Dave Matthews

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