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Spoiler alert... HOLY COW!!!!! WOW! I'm thinking Softimage or something when I first saw it! Yikes! Old school real world art will never die.

Again, WOW!

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Message edited on: 01/25/2005 13:20

The first thing I noticed is that there is no distance haze or air pollution - it is far cleaner and shinier than what you'd see in a real city. But it's an excellent, complex render - no doubt.

This is one of the best "oil on canvas" renders that I've ever seen !

Uh....what does "oil on canvas" mean? Is that some sort of a new type of software....or something?

Nice use of the Dystopia blocks in the background. ;)

WOW doesn't even begin to describe it o.O

Isn't this painting by the guy who paints New York free of pollution-and people?

I saw a person in one of his other pics :)

No doubt, the guy's talent for painting is amazing. On the other hand, though, it just makes me think, "why not just take a photograph?" In other words, it just makes me wonder at his talent, not about the scene.

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Why bother? Just take a photograph.

Fake but pretty awesome if you ask me and I didnt cheat. ;)

"Why bother? Just take a photograph." Well, I'm a decent painter but I'd sell my soul to be able to paint like that.

The White building off to the left with the dome roof looks totally fake, but the rest is amazing.

The reason for not just taking a photograph is because you can create places that have never been or don't exit anymore.

Stuff like this is why I got into 3d. Dammit, good 3d software didn't become available until after I wasted all that time learning to draw and sculpt ;-P

Some of these photorealistic paintings are made by tracing a photograph so it might not be as amazing as it seems.

I learned to draw by tracing Star Wars and Superman comics as a kid. That never taught me the deftness to paint on canvas like that!! Traced or not it looks bloody amazing!! I still keep thinking Sofimage and Renderman when I see it! Again, my two cents are spent! G

My last reply was blather, so I've deleted it until I come up with a more considered response. :) - Can't even type straight now...

Message edited on: 01/26/2005 06:46

Very nice work but I knew it couldn't be a photo of a real scene. The reflection in the window would be impossible in RL. Plus I doubt that long a depth of field is possible with such a wide-angle shot.

Depth of field is an optical illusion. The blur is smaller than the human eye can resolve when looking at the final image. It's not so incredibly wide-angle, and apart from the window frame there's nothing particularly close to the "camera". Stopped right down, and on a tripod, it doesn't look impossible. And it's hard to tell, but the distant objects don't look quite sharp. Which is something I've done with my camera when there's a little haze.

"It's not so incredibly wide-angle..." Did you note how wide the street and sidewalk are? Yet he gets pretty close to the opposite side. Looks like a very wide-angle to me. My widest lens is 18mm and I'm pretty sure I couldn't fit all that in a shot. "...apart from the window frame there's nothing particularly close to the "camera". " The window frame was my point of reference; it's the key. "Stopped right down, and on a tripod, it doesn't look impossible. And it's hard to tell, but the distant objects don't look quite sharp. Which is something I've done with my camera when there's a little haze." Interesting. I doubt I could get anything like this with any of my lenses. But I'll try next time I visit a city with six-lane streets and 15-foot wide sidewalks. Do you have any tips? What lens/settings did you use?

My brother let me use his 12mm on my Fed-2 at Christmas, one of those Voigtlander optics from Japan. I don't think the pic needs something that extreme.