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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