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May 13, 2005
Have I given up writing for rendering?
Another render... two in one week, but no, I haven't given up writing in favor of rendering stuff. It's just that lately work has been lots of reading docs, writing proposals, etc. At the end of the day, I'm pretty much "written out", so working on visual rendering projects has been more relaxing. I suspect that will slack off once the heavy coding gets going again since that tends to engage my right brain much more.
So anyway, here's my latest offering...
I'd been thinking of some kind of crucifix pose for a few weeks, and this is what I ended up with.
Originally, the figure was going to be holding two katanas, stretched out like that, their blades arcing downwards, but once I got the draft of that, I found that it looked far too martial, as if the figure were preparing to attack.
Plus, it threw off the vertical aspect ratio of the cross, and I couldn't find a good way to lengthen the central line. Then, when comparing the sword-draft with an earlier rough-draft, I found that I like the open hands better. The open, relaxed hands give it much more a feeling of surrender and release that was closer to my original intent.
In other news, I've given MAW the weekend off. She hasn't had a real break from the kids for almost two years for various reasons. But this weekend, she's off in a hotel, reading a book and ordering room service. I would have done it last weekend for Mother's Day, but I was out of town.
Blog /Render by Dan at May 13, 2005 09:27 PM