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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Daily life in Gancaloon: At the Jackal (wip 4)
Date: 4 Dec 2011 10:20:06
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On 4-12-2011 15:46, Jim Holsenback wrote:
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> lot's of eye candy ... colors, lighting. Nice job there Thomas :-)
Thank you Jim. I am quite satisfied with how the scene grows. It is
almost an organic process: one decision leading naturally to several
other possibilities and so on. At the start, the idea was rather hazy,
but the scene gains focus with each new addition or transformation.
Fascinating.
Thomas
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Daily life in Gancaloon: At the Jackal (wip 4)
Date: 4 Dec 2011 12:13:03
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On 12/4/2011 4:19, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Some small and larger changes, both viewpoints.
Those textures are exactly the reason one should import a mesh into pov-ray
for rendering, to address an older question. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
People tell me I am the counter-example.
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Thomas de Groot <tenDOTlnDOTretniATtoorgedDOTt> wrote:
> Some small and larger changes, both viewpoints.
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> Thomas
Great work, as usual, Thomas. The characters as captured in "at the jackal_09a"
really bring the whole scene to life!
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Daily life in Gancaloon: At the Jackal (wip 4)
Date: 5 Dec 2011 02:58:01
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On 5-12-2011 1:18, Samuel Benge wrote:
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> Great work, as usual, Thomas. The characters as captured in "at the jackal_09a"
> really bring the whole scene to life!
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Thanks Sam. There are more characters to come of course. In 09b, they
would need a different positioning of course as the context becomes
different with the viewpoint, but for the time being, while in wip mode,
this can do.
Thomas
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Daily life in Gancaloon: At the Jackal (wip 4)
Date: 5 Dec 2011 03:06:31
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On 4-12-2011 18:13, Darren New wrote:
> Those textures are exactly the reason one should import a mesh into
> pov-ray for rendering, to address an older question. :-)
>
indeed, indeed, exactly my opinion too. POV-Ray is unparalleled where
textures are concerned, or so I believe. I have not yet experimented
with texture backing, but time allowing I shall necessarily also be
drifting that way one day.
Thomas
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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Daily life in Gancaloon: At the Jackal (wip 4)
Date: 5 Dec 2011 11:18:26
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Hi(gh)!
On 04.12.2011 13:19, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Some small and larger changes, both viewpoints.
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> Thomas
Impressive... that long-haired human being in the background, is it
meant to be a man or a woman? I ask because I wonder whether your world
obviously has a classical Arabian design, its dominating religion not
seems to be Islam - otherwise women would be veiled in some way. Or it
is in fact a long-haired man...
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Now playing: Top Of The World (The Glass-Bead Game) (Jon Anderson)
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From: Alain
Subject: Re: Daily life in Gancaloon: At the Jackal (wip 4)
Date: 5 Dec 2011 16:54:57
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> Hi(gh)!
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> On 04.12.2011 13:19, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> Some small and larger changes, both viewpoints.
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>> Thomas
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> Impressive... that long-haired human being in the background, is it
> meant to be a man or a woman? I ask because I wonder whether your world
> obviously has a classical Arabian design, its dominating religion not
> seems to be Islam - otherwise women would be veiled in some way. Or it
> is in fact a long-haired man...
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
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> Now playing: Top Of The World (The Glass-Bead Game) (Jon Anderson)
It can realy be some pre-islamic, or very early islamic, Arabian setting.
Alain
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Daily life in Gancaloon: At the Jackal (wip 4)
Date: 6 Dec 2011 03:30:32
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> Impressive... that long-haired human being in the background, is it
> meant to be a man or a woman? I ask because I wonder whether your world
> obviously has a classical Arabian design, its dominating religion not
> seems to be Islam - otherwise women would be veiled in some way. Or it
> is in fact a long-haired man...
>
Good question. I feel I have to reveal some of the background to this
series of images about Gancaloon and Iskander.
The "Tale of Iskander" which is the framework within which I create
these images is set in a parallel world where Alexander the Great did
not die young but continued until a ripe old age to increase and manage
his empire. As a consequence, the Mediterranean world remained
Greek-dominated, with only Carthage as principal rival in the west. The
Romans never built any empire at all but were incorporated into
successive Etruscan kingdoms. While Jesus was indeed born, he was of
course never crucified, and Paul died on the road to Damascus when he
fell from his horse. So, no Christendom, only an obscure Judaic sect
confined to remote arid regions of the Middle East. Something resembling
Islam emerged as it did in our world, but it never attained the fervour
nor the impetus we know from our history. In this parallel world, the
main religion is a kind of philosophical pluralism tending to
monotheism, based on Apollo and Athena as main vessels; Judaism is
restricted to the province of Judea; influences from the East,
particularly India, are found in Gancaloon.
As the Tale is dated around our 11th/12th century, the area is
politically dominated by the Turks, while Greek influence dominates the
western part of the Mediterranean. Constantinople was never built.
Instead, Alexander the Great built Neoilion, more or less on the site of
Troy but more to the North, and made it his capital. Towards the North,
Europe shows a mixture of Celtic and Germanic kingdoms in perpetual
fluctuation.
So, this is not a real Islam-dominated region. It is highly cosmopolitan
in all aspects with many polytheistic elements included.
Iskander (the Turkish version of Alexander) is the name of my tale's
hero, a sailor of Greek/Armenian origin, brought up in Neoilion.
And to answer your first question, the figure in the background is male
indeed. Women can or cannot be veiled, according to circumstances and
(partly) to social class.
"The Tale of Iskander" is a kind of novel (in my head) which I shall
never write but only illustrate as time goes on. Think of the originally
illustrated novels of Jules Verne and you will have an idea of what I am
after. The Tale, centered around Gancaloon is - of course - a tale of
power and intrigue ;-)
Thomas
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