To the Death by alessimarco

DAZ|Studio • Fantasy • posted on Jan 15, 2012

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They are not sworn enemies, they may even know each other, but as they enter the gladiatorial arena they become mortal combatants, it is a fight to the death. As they lock glances, each knows that if he is to walk out of the arena alive, the other surely must die! The Roman gladiatorial arean was a brutal, bloody place, but as I don't particularly enjoy depicting gore, I chose the initial moment of combat, just before the first blow is struck, when the gladiators (the Barbarian versus the Greek) see the look of mortal desperation in each others' eyes. This is my 100th image! It took me nearly three years, but I have enjoyed producing every one, and wish I had more time!. Even with the frustrations of DAZ crashing and not always doing what I wanted, the process of bringing my imagination to life in 3D has been a lot of fun. This is also my last image with DAZ 3, as I have now upgraded to DAZ 4 Advanced and am trying to learn the new interface. I will let you know how it goes on my next post...my first DAZ 4 effort. Thanks for looking and for your comments! You are the greatest! I tried to pay a lot of attention to detail in this one, so please take a moment to ZOOM and enjoy them! Previously: "Full of Grace":

Comments (152)

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flavia49

8:17AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

stunning scene and great posing!! Congratulations!!

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soffy

8:28AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Excellent work,Congrats on the 100th*****

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MineFujiko

8:49AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Awesome sword fighting scene! love it.

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thecytron

10:12AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Xcellent composition!

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sandra46

11:09AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

FASCINATING! SUPERLATIVE!

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ragouc

11:14AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Very good action scene.

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craftyhands

11:16AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Great Rendering and action poses. Excellent 100th post and good luck with Daz 4 Advanced.

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Rhanagaz

11:35AM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Great work and scene, Marco!! And congrats with number 100!! :o)

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Hendesse

1:16PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Perfect poses, a superb scene. Excellent work!

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LBJ2

1:32PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Fanbulous render and composition, Marco. Wonderful action scene. And yes, DAZ 4 interface is a pain :)

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lwperkins

1:34PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Wonderful and dramatic posing--and I am looking forward to seeing what you do in Daz4!

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jarmila

1:44PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Nice boys and scene, have a lovely week my friend

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tit.max

2:00PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Congratulation for the 100th image ! To the Death, the one who will go out victorious of this fight will win certainly the last zucchini soup, I like zucchini soup, to celebrate his victory. It was like that in this time ;)

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emmecielle

2:52PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

A fantastic composition! Great details and mood! Congratulations on your 100th upload and enjoy working with DAZ 4! :)

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julesart

2:59PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Superb image! Their expressions are great! Your lighting is wonderful and so are those poses. great characters as well. A very beautiful well done image!

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mikeerson

3:44PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

3 years to get to 100 - it took my 5 years to get to 300... I've seen some that reach a thousand in 3 years.... I have no goal to reach a thousand - lol... if I get there I get there - lol... congrats on 100 and for keeping your gallery intact.

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m_j_s

3:49PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

You have captured the sense of movement wonderfully! A very dynamic 100, congrats!

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vapo

4:02PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Congrats on your 100th upload, dear Marco! This is such a great, dynamic scene, I somehow like when there is some testosterone and sweat included in a scene... lol I also wish you luck and patience with the DS4's new interface - I have tried but I'm still lost! :) Vashek

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Kindredsoul

4:23PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

very realistic male figures, well done.

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nun2brite

6:37PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

Wicked GOOD !!!

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mgtcs

7:44PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

This is a precious scene Marco, the colors and poses are fantastic, amazing dynamic scene, fantastic characters, congratulations! **** PS: Congratulations on your 100th!!!

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SidheRoseGraphics

10:03PM | Mon, 16 January 2012

This is excellent. You really captured a tense moment well. Great posing and colors in this.

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schonee

12:46AM | Tue, 17 January 2012

Excellent!!!

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mariogiannecchini

1:49AM | Tue, 17 January 2012

Fantastic image , as always ! Superb work my friend!Awesome 100th !!!

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Froggy

4:05AM | Tue, 17 January 2012

Congratulations my friend on this milestone piece ... and what agreat piece it is too! I would be very interested to hear how your experiences go with DS4, as I've heard it's really bad, though the results are super impressive with the reality 2 renderer .... given enough time!

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elleque

4:59AM | Tue, 17 January 2012

It is a wonderful Render with the sense of reality. The face of the gladiator who gritted his tooth is excellent depiction.

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hardwaretoad

3:13PM | Tue, 17 January 2012

Congrats not only on 100 images but your upgrade to 4 as well... I was still lounging around with 2.3.xxx before my fatal computer crash. I can noly guess as to how much better 3 or 4 were/are to work with, or maybe I was doing myself a favor by sticking with something that was reasonably stable!!

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