Ugh...well I have say I have never been to an opera, so I can't say what it is like...but I can only imagine I would look just like Fabrizio does...bored to death! Oh, I know it is all good and so in in style to talk with others about how you have seen this wonderful opera. And I am sure that once Fabrizio gets past the trauma of being subjected to this...show...he shall be ready to share the story of it. BUT...this is just MHO!!!! I have to say Fabrizio seems to have a 'just shoot me NOW," look, LOL.

Yay, Erestorfan, I had no idea whether my old friends would still be around here as I have been so bad with getting stuff done recently. It's so lovely to hear from you! I hope you're well! And can I just say, your comment has had me in stitches! Do you see "Shoot me now?" How fascinating, and funny... Not quite what I was going for, I must admit - grins - but I'm immensely tickled by the idea. (Obviously there was absolutely no chance of me getting Francesco to go along as well. He tends to go for other forms of entertainment, an example of which should be coming up soon.) Still, whatever Fabrizio's feeling, no doubt he'll be trying to convince everyone later that he knew exactly what was going on in the plot the entire time. Which is more than I've ever been able to say for an opera. ;-D

Yup, we're still here. Just like you maybe we are all busy converting Genesis to Gen2, having just finished converting from V4/M4 ! Scarlatti is also pretty good for inspiration even though he's early 1700's, at least he's Italian :-)

Ah, hello Gary! Hope all is well with you too. It wouldn't be Renderosity without you :-) Amazing how long the conversions take, isn't it? Still, I really do love G2M - as a figure it works much better for me than Genesis for some reason, and the figure seems to be much better supported by PAs than Genesis Male was, so it's all good. But it's a shame for all the morphs and poses and so forth I had before. I'm slowly working my way through and converting everything, but as a hobbyist it takes so long!!! Plus, I just changed computers, which means I have much more power than I used to (I've just done a scene with nine figures in a single render, which would have taken 24 hours + on the old machine but took about four hours on the new one), but meant that I had to reinstall my entire runtime and recreate all my characters from scratch. Which was distressing. As soon as I saw you'd commented, I thought, 'Oh good grief', and hurriedly checked up on the image and yes, there's a strange white blotch on the rose leaf and some poke-through on his left sleeve, so I just thought I'd better get that in... but you were very kind and didn't mention anything :-) On that multi-figure render I just mentioned, however, you're going to have a field day, because I've just realised that someone's holding a lute the wrong way round. I'm going to cover myself in advance by pointing out that he's left-handed... And as for Scarlatti... I'm not being all that historically precise in terms of the musical inspiration, I must confess. I've been listening to Porpora, Vivaldi, Broschi and Leonardo Vinci (the composer, not the artist, obviously), all of whom are fairly solidly 1700s. (Must add Scarlatti to the list.) In my defence, however, the singer's costume is based on a blend of masque designs by Inigo Jones and Stefano della Bella, so at least both of them are stoutly mid-1600s. Just in case you were doubting my commitment. ;-D

Wonderful!

Thanks so much Mininessie :-) Very glad to see you're still active on the galleries too, and hope you're well. Thank you for still taking the time to check out my illustrations even though it's been such a fearfully long while!

A well composed image, I like it very much, and I like that it is open to interpretation by the viewer ;)

Thank you so much tonymouse! :-) I was a bit nervous about how the format was going to work out, but in the end it did what I wanted it to, so that was great. Yes, I'm going to be interested to hear what other people think the mood is... Interpretation is good :-D

Ahhh, daydreams make us all.

Ha ha, quite!!! Lovely to hear from you too kfox - hope all is well :-)