Rock and Roll

Member : MichaelJF

Image description
As usual I first did some investigations about the theme. Since the story of Edgar Allen Poe certainly is not his masterpiece I looked for the sphinges in mythology. I learned that the Greek Sphinx was depicted female and the most of the Egyptian ones are male, depicting the actual king. Then I noticed a painture in the Wikipedia (unfortunately it is moved from the German version of the "Sphinx"-Page in the Wikipedia so I cannot find it at this moment), depicting a leopard-sphinx loving a (human) man like one of my cats would do. So I got an idea. A love scene. And what do lovers to express their emotions? They dance! So I needed dancing sphinges, a band and a little audience of old Egyptian Gods. Here is the cast: Amun-Re and Isis as audience. Anubis (Sax), Seth (Drums), Bastet (Guitar) and her sister Sekhmet (Bass) and th dancing sphinges.

Description of how this image was created
My first real experience with poser and the necessary follow up with PoseRay and/or Wings. I hadn't expected that my first real work with Poser would be in beheading figures to give them another head in Wings. I used some code from other POV-Ray artists, which I will mention and thank here: Sean Day for his marvelous stones, Emkaah for his pyramids, and Tom Aust for his palms. The guitar, the bass, the drumset and the flamingos are free 3d-models I found at the net. But special thanks goes to the late Akhenaten for his "Great Hymn to Aten" which is the text on the pillars left and right to the pier.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	9
Min. overall rating	:	31 (11 / 10 / 10)
Max. overall rating	:	53 (18 / 20 / 15)
Sum of rating	:	371 / 540
Date uploaded	:	2011-12-17 23:28:06

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	:	10 : 18 : 119 : 180
Concept	:	10 : 20 : 128 : 180
Technical	:	10 : 17 : 124 : 180
Overall	:	31 : 53 : 371 : 540

Comments by members when rating this image

1.   19-12-2011 interesting idea, let down by the posing and camera angle. too much dead space around the edges, and liner division into left/centre/right.