--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda <no_reply@...> wrote: > > good choice..that's Nicole Roarty,a real person, wife of Dan > Roarty,a 3D artist Lead Character Artist for LucasArts > Here a much more IMHO charming snapshot of both > > [http://blog.cgtrader.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Dan-Roarty.jpg] > > so because these photos are "VRAY-ed within Maya" , does that > prove they could not meditating transcendental as so many out > artist do, what do you think? > > May be your husband could be interested in this,my dear Anuschka! > http://blog.cgtrader.com/2012/08/13/making-of-the-blue-project-by-dan-roarty/
Thank you for this. GREAT find. I had seen only the final portrait. It's amazing to me to see the layering process. I've watched my best friend paint in oils, and the process is exactly like that -- laying down base levels of color and then applying more, either translucent or opaque -- to finally achieve a result that does a remarkable job of capturing the nuances of a human face. I'm seeing the future here. Within a decade you won't really need human actors. Sure, they'll still be out there, and working, but a lot of them will be working on a preliminary 3D modeling, which will then be transformed into the final. That introduces a whole new world. Fascinating, that the software tool of choice is called Maya, eh? There was actually a film made about creating a fictional CGI movie star called "S1mone," written and directed by Andrew Niccol, and starring Al Pacino. It was not fully realized, and not that great a movie, but its concept just rocked. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/reference
