{"id":622,"date":"2010-02-13T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2010-02-13T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:40:30","slug":"making-of-article-for-alexis-van-der-hagues-papageno-the-bird-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/13\/making-of-article-for-alexis-van-der-hagues-papageno-the-bird-catcher\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Making Of&#8221; Article for Alexis Van der Hague&#8217;s &#8220;Papageno the Bird Catcher&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dtotal.com\/tutorial\/maya\/character_creation_papageno_bird_catcher\/bird_catcher_01.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/papageno.jpg\" alt=\"Papageno the Bird Catcher\" width=\"501\" height=\"262\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top:12px;\">One of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2007\/07\/25\/stilt-walkers-by-alexis-van-der-haeghe\/\">very first posts<\/a> here at the Web-O-Blog was about Alexis Van der Hague&#8217;s animation <em>Stilt Walkers<\/em>: an animated short that was rendered with 3D tools  in such a way that it recalled the style of traditional paintings. That, and the lyrical style of the piece, impressed the heck out of me. Just lovely.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">3D Total is hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dtotal.com\/tutorial\/maya\/character_creation_papageno_bird_catcher\/bird_catcher_01.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a &quot;Making Of&quot; article<\/a> for a new image by Van der Hague. Here we see a portrait,  within an 18th century landscape,  of Papageno from Mozart&#8217;s <em>The Magic Flute<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This time around we get not just the final product, which is sensational, but a breakdown of how Van der Hague has used 3D tools (ZBrush, Maya, and Mudbox) to build something that&#8217;s beautifully <em>not<\/em> photorealistic. That&#8217;s pretty close to a description of what I try to do. It&#8217;s just that the &quot;not photorealistic&quot; styles we&#8217;re each aiming for are pretty different.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This article&#8217;s a great example of how that can be done. Excellent work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my very first posts here at the Web-O-Blog was about Alexis Van der Hague&#8217;s animation Stilt Walkers: an animated short that was rendered with 3D tools in such a way that it recalled the style of traditional paintings. That, and the lyrical style of the piece, impressed the heck out of me. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}