The Final Match by Leander2010
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Francesco Ramiro has never expected to live beyond thirty. However, at the moment he’s beginning to doubt that he’ll see the end of the year. As he prepares for what will be his final confrontation with Cristiano d’Anore (one way or the other), Francesco has to become more focused than he has ever been before. Like many men who’ve achieved power too quickly and at the expense of too many people, Cristiano d’Anore is deeply paranoid and surrounds himself with a constant team of bodyguards. Knowing he will have to get past them in order to reach d’Anore, Francesco asks his old sparring partners at Sordi’s tavern to take him on three-to-one, to test his readiness. Sordi’s regulars are a rough bunch and always love watching a good fight, but this has particular poignancy for them, as they are only too aware of the likely outcome of Francesco’s meeting with d’Anore.
It is no great feat to have exhausted Roberto, who has drunk too many glasses of wine and eaten too many good dinners to be a difficult opponent. But that means Francesco is left with Geronimo, the ex-condottiere whose swordsmanship is still keen despite his reliance on the bottle; and Paolo, formerly of the city guards, who’s proven on previous occasions to be more than a match for Francesco on his own. As usual, Sordi has ordered them to stop at first blood but Fabrizio, ever anxious, is poised to enter the fray if things get out of hand, despite Sordi’s attempts to reassure him.
A bit of a chronological leap here, to almost the end of the story, because I wanted to try a more ambitious composition. It certainly took some time to organise - so I can’t promise I’ll be doing many scenes with this number of figures! - but I think it was worth it in the end.
Comments (15)
StudioArtVartanian
Wonderful work,POV,and movement,looks like a shot from a movie!!! Love it!!!
ragouc
Very good light and texture. Very good action scene.
mininessie
stuning scene my friend!! really great!
njb2000
Great action scene!
Gisela
Great scene.
Cimaira
Fantastic work! Love the dof. That is a lot of characters, wonderful posing and expressions on all.
LadyAlys
Wonderful scene. I love the details of the background characters.
vyktohria
Absolutley wonderful! I really want to pick your brain about how you manage to achieve such great lighting and realism with DAZ (something I've been working on trying to accomplish . . .)
mermaid
excellently done scene!
steve100
A lot going on here, very well done
Arah
Love the Action poses! Great work!
alessimarco
Outstanding action scene!!! 16 figures? Wow! Really excellent work!
gsayers
Truly ambitious to put so many resource-hungry (and elaborately clothed) figures in the scene. The posing is very natural looking, except for the figure on the far left, who looks like a stock hero pose and fairly off-balance too (maybe too much wine?). On this scene, I think I'd close in a little more to heighten the suspense, so that the edges of the crowd were overlapping the edge of the frame. If you have enough memory(???) I'd hang a couple of out-of-focus shirts or the back of a head in front of the camera to give the impression you were viewing it through a crowd. Good work. Gary
jakiblue
great crowd scene! stunned you got so many in there too LOL
A_
this image is really well balanced! all the poses compliment each other, and i think it is brilliant that you can't see the other guy's face - it really sets the attention on Francesco.