Endless Why by Taron

Lightwave • (none) • posted on Mar 09, 2002

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Comments (20)

audre

11:18PM | Sat, 09 March 2002

hey you! welcome... thanks for sharing your art with us. i have to say, this is one of my all time favorites. just something about it draws me right in.

archetype

11:20PM | Sat, 09 March 2002

Whoa! What a wonderful work. Love the detail of that skin! Ummm, what did you use to make this?

NURBS55

11:39PM | Sat, 09 March 2002

You are a Great Master Taron. I know your works,REALLY COOL WORKS.

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vapo

4:11AM | Sun, 10 March 2002

Absolutely stunning work... the detail richness on this render is amazing!

Taron

4:33AM | Sun, 10 March 2002

Ok, I guess, this is the moment for me to start giving some discriptions. It's probably a weired place to put it into the comments, but I figure...why not!? First of all, and I may have to start any discription like that: THANK YOU! Those are wonderful comments...I appreciate it! Now to the image: This is called "endless why" to provide a little bit of the agenda of this image, giving a clue to the story behind it. Usually, when I model something, it has a tendency to begin speaking to me, more like telling me it's own story. So this one shaped itself to be a sculptur. A sculptur that once was proud, fresh and full of glory. With time it began to weather, life and it's exhibition became obligatory. Up to a point where existence became so tiresome, that it searched for a solution. It found that solution in the people that would come by regularly over years, people who would age, people who would eventually vanish. But itself wouldn't really do it, aging, vanishing, dying. So it focused on that idea, the idea to die. It waited for anything that would destroy it, joyfull expecting any kind of impact....almost luring people to come and leave marks...a lightning strike, something...and it happens, actually many things are happening to it, but everytime something even just scratches it, the next day somebody would repair it, fill the gab, replace broken off pieces...no way out. Over the many years, noone really notices it, but the face deforms, it's inner madness grows more and more into its expression... this phase is what we are looking at right now. Eventually it really happens and a car slips on a rainy day off the road, hitting the sculptur, completely destroying it....when consciousness sets back in, the sculptur finds itself as a ghost, surrounded by countless ghosted buildings with bizarrly smiling gargoyls on them, leaving the sculptur with a terrified expression to begin all eternity, asking "why?". That's all...I did it entirly with Lightwave 5.6 (at the time) it took about 10 combined hours to model, but I did it over several days...just going back at it occasionally...texturing took one evening... I later made an animation setup for a "Project:Messiah" demonstration of my facial-animation setup...

dwmdesigner

4:58AM | Sun, 10 March 2002

Wonderful work !! Don't Stop!

dzogchen

7:49AM | Tue, 12 March 2002

Impeccable texturing and design. I love your story behind this piece of work.

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Moebius87

11:42AM | Tue, 12 March 2002

Incredible work! Amazing texturing and modeling, plus a really cool concept motivating the piece. Thanks for sharing.

Guillermo

10:13AM | Thu, 14 March 2002

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

Mixednutt

9:38AM | Sat, 16 March 2002

This is an incredibly captivating piece. If you had an animation using this face somewhere, I would download it in a hot second. Your work confounds me. BTW, in my opinion, your eyebrows are simply incredible, and really make it look like a sculpture

nick2k

3:06PM | Sun, 17 March 2002

This is one of my favourite images ever, absoultly amazing. Oh just remebered, thanks for your hotspotter plugin its great :) are you still working on specular hghlights that will give imagebased shapes?

Recreation3D

4:37PM | Mon, 25 March 2002

I love this !

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allengraph

4:06AM | Thu, 28 March 2002

WOW! love this! awesome work here

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Darkworld

2:26AM | Fri, 29 March 2002

stunning, beautiful piece, and very evocative story. there are few things more sinister and powerful, yet silent and thoughtful, than gargoyles. thanks for posting

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ShadowWind

12:38AM | Tue, 02 April 2002

Wow! Even before the description, I was amazed, but after I can even appreciate it much more.

Randycigar

3:09AM | Fri, 05 July 2002

I'm scard shitless. nice work

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Svenart

4:31AM | Wed, 14 August 2002

i can stand it! you are really the master

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Flak

6:18AM | Fri, 04 April 2003

Spectacular and fantastically impressive. Amazing.

loganarts

7:33AM | Fri, 27 June 2003

Hello Taron, This is one of my favorite images. You mentioned you did a facial setup for it using PM... Is it possible to find some of those animation tests online somewhere? You know i live in a galaxy far far away so its impossible to see a presentation from u in any 3d fair... finding those amazing works online would be a bliss:) salut loggie

DeathWizard

3:26PM | Sun, 02 May 2004

WOW! This is truly amazing! One of the best works I've seen at Renderosity. Excellent job!