RobertT
January 13, 2019, 9:43pm
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Here is my non-competing entry:
ODYSSEUS RETURNS
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Pure Blender 2.79, Cycles, all mesh with only slight procedural textures.
This stylized project was inspired by the character Odysseus from Homer’s epic poem Odyssey :
See also:https://pantheon.org/articles/o/odysseus.html
Odyssey: Odyssey, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to...
Odysseus, after many adventures and setbacks, stands, momentarily disguised, fully intending to return to his wife, reclaim his kingdom, and restore order.
The birds in the distance, as they do in the poem, portend his homeward return to Ithaca.
Overall coloration for this project was inspired by comparable orange/black/etc. hues often found in ancient Greek pottery art:
Greek pottery: Greek pottery, the pottery of the ancient Greeks, important both for the intrinsic beauty of its forms and decoration and for the light it sheds on the development of Greek pictorial art. Because fired clay pottery is highly...
Ancient Greek pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC are still the best guide available to understand the customary life and mind of the ancient Greeks. There w Th...
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