KP x QN

Member : JuuG

Image description
Or King’s Pawn takes Queen’s Knight. The pieces are drawn to match their real-life chess counterparts: Tall, powerful queen, round-headed pawn taking a sideways stab at the knight etc. And I now understand why a knight on the chess board can only make a hook-shaped attack in a circle around itself: it’s that silly ball-and-chain weapon (sometimes called a Morning Star).

Description of how this image was created
Players, clothes, dagger and sword are Poser imported via PoseRay. Helmets and crowns modelled in POV-Ray, plus the plinths, the pawn’s pike and the knight’s morning star and shield. The knight’s horse is a blob object. The scenery is more POV-Ray modelling. The grasses are from a macro by Gilles Tran. I made the castle years ago for an IRTC competition and always liked it - nice to use it again. The line of trees on the horizon is a random mix of 3 tree models imported from Poser.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	18
Min. overall rating	:	15 (5 / 5 / 5)
Max. overall rating	:	44 (14 / 15 / 15)
Sum of rating	:	632 / 1080
Date uploaded	:	2008-11-17 08:26:28

Specific details Note: The maximum value below is misleading as the voting system has changed. If the member votes for all the entries and has created one him/herself, there is an automatic 20/20/20 score added to the value (This encourages all members who enter to vote).
Rating type	:	Min : Max : Sum : Out of
Artistic	:	5 : 20 : 195 : 360
Concept	:	5 : 20 : 202 : 360
Technical	:	5 : 20 : 235 : 360
Overall	:	15 : 60 : 632 : 1080

Comments by members when rating this image

1.   28-12-2008 Good job on this one. I don't like the camera lighting though. The head light is too obvious and people look scary that way. 2.   19-12-2008 Nice image all round. A little bit better tecturing and maybe more dynamic posing would have improved the piece. Lack other pieces seems a little odd. Queen has a sort of odd look to her. 3.   19-11-2008 (The proper term for that silly weapon is actually "flail"; a morning star doesn't have the chain.) Best attempt so far to get some dynamics into what is basically a chess scene, but your approach of using partly human partly chess piece "chimeras" could have been carried beyond this. The knight's posture seems to be a bit too much on the generic side of "Argh! I'm hit!", and the pawn could have a somewhat more active posture. The way he's holding the pike doesn't seem fit to deliver a deadly strike with that weapon. The king's facial expression is a bit too much on the "schadenfreude" side to fit a deadly battle, and his overall posture could be a bit more active, too; and the queen should at least show SOME interest in the battle, but she's not even looking at the pawn nor the knight. Textures are a bit too noisy overall for my taste, especially in the background.