On 2-9-2012 18:41, MichaelJF wrote:
>
>> Thanks indeed. What is an abo?
>
> Sorry, a simple translation error. I believed the original French "abonnement"
> has intruded the English as well as the German. It is subscription in English.

It was what I thought it to be, but wanted confirmation.

All POV-Ray users have an automatic /abonnement/  ;-)

Thomas

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As I always keep examples of work in progress, this is the next stage. 
Textures are not in final stage.

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> As I always keep examples of work in progress, this is the next stage.
> Textures are not in final stage.
>
> Thomas

This is looking really nice so far Thomas. The foreground bricks are much better
with the larger scale, and I see you've given the sailor a tan (although I
personally like his colourful trousers more than these new ones). The statue on
the far side of the harbour is a nice touch, as are the new buildings (to hide
some of the closer stand-in houses?).

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On 5-9-2012 16:49, Robert McGregor wrote:
> This is looking really nice so far Thomas. The foreground bricks are much better
> with the larger scale, and I see you've given the sailor a tan (although I
> personally like his colourful trousers more than these new ones). The statue on
> the far side of the harbour is a nice touch, as are the new buildings (to hide
> some of the closer stand-in houses?).
>

Thanks Robert.

I shall probably work a bit more on the ground pattern.

The trousers pattern is still in flux and can change unpredictably ;-)

The statue of Athena I came across when I browsed through my objects 
(Taschen) collection. It seemed the right guardian for the harbour.

The buildings were planned all along. They are inspired by the Stoa of 
most Greek polis. They are a combination of warehouses, markets, and 
meeting places.

Thomas

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Robert McGregor wrote:

> The statue on the far side of the harbour is a nice touch

Indeed, although I think the scale is a bit exaggerated. Of course,
it might be a coloss of rhodos thing but you probably wouldn't tuck
that into a harbour corner. Also, it looks a bitmetallic to me, maybe
a stone statue would fit in better.

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On 6-9-2012 1:19, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Robert McGregor wrote:
>
>> The statue on the far side of the harbour is a nice touch
>
> Indeed, although I think the scale is a bit exaggerated. Of course,
> it might be a coloss of rhodos thing but you probably wouldn't tuck
> that into a harbour corner. Also, it looks a bitmetallic to me, maybe
> a stone statue would fit in better.
>

<grin> All kind of things that will be tackled in due course.

Thomas

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On 05/09/12 13:13, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> As I always keep examples of work in progress, this is the next
> stage. Textures are not in final stage.
>

   The scale on the floor is at a correct scale now, I think... just
needs to fit the lighting on the scene: perhaps rotating 180*y will do it.

   I like better the skin work on the figure on this one. The cloth is
perhaps less colorful, but more suited for the occasion, I guess.

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jaime

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On 6-9-2012 10:07, Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> On 05/09/12 13:13, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> As I always keep examples of work in progress, this is the next
>> stage. Textures are not in final stage.
>>
>
>    The scale on the floor is at a correct scale now, I think... just
> needs to fit the lighting on the scene: perhaps rotating 180*y will do it.

It /is/ already rotated 180*y, but I think I see what you mean. The 
image should possibly be mirrored too. I shall investigate. Thanks for 
this keen observation :-)

>
>    I like better the skin work on the figure on this one. The cloth is
> perhaps less colorful, but more suited for the occasion, I guess.

In fact this figure is low res (Don; Poser 5) which I generally use for 
scale purposes and in background positions. It does a fairly good job in 
this image although normally I use the later Poser 6 to 8 or Apollo 
Maximus figures in the foreground.

Like many, I like to use colourful cloth and I force myself to also use 
less pretty ones. Here, this kind of sacking is better adapted to the 
occasion indeed.

Thomas

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On 6-9-2012 1:19, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Indeed, although I think the scale is a bit exaggerated. Of course,
> it might be a coloss of rhodos thing but you probably wouldn't tuck
> that into a harbour corner. Also, it looks a bitmetallic to me, maybe
> a stone statue would fit in better.

The colossus of Rhodos was predominantly in my mind of course. In Greek 
temples, statues were often oversized, sometimes almost touching the 
ceiling. Must have been an awesome sight, as was intended I suppose. So, 
this statue which is about 8 times human scale should be an eye-catcher 
when sailing into the harbour.

Thomas

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I note the very natural attitude of the character.
To criticize Maybe too specular on the skin.




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Ferdinand

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