"False Maria" robot from 1927 silent film "Metropolis"
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Expressionism!
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On pair with Eraserhead, this is one of my favorite movies! I'm very curious to see where are you going with this...
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Great modeling ! Haven't seen the movie though !
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Great movie, and great modeling, hellnbak. Do you plan on rendering her?
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@hellnbak said:
Was going to include a bunch of background stuff but that seems to bore some people.
Wohoo! Brilliant, as ever! ... & we do want to background stuff ... we must be 'edumacated'!!!
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I'm dumbstruck. You've made the transition (in an elegant choice of subjects) from cars to the female form and there shouldn't be anything you can't go on to. Also people don't know. You don't use many plugins or Artisan...and these are Sketchup images right? Great movie too.
I agree. Just because movies are "modern" art form, we tend to let later styles of work and technology devalue some of the earlier works. We don't do that so much in the other arts. You have to let this movie run and immerse yourself in it, and it's a great experience.
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I see nothing wrong with the face.
Incredible work! Absolutely incredible.
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I thought I was looking at screen grabs from the film, Steve, you perform wonders mate. Who needs rendering when someone can export from sketchup the way you manage to, simply stunning and a great example to anyone wishing to learn the art.
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Sorry, been really busy
Thanks for all the kind words, much appreciated
Did some work on the shoes, possibly the strangest shoes I have ever seen. Not finished yet, still lumpy, but they're getting there
I want to finish the preliminary work on the body so I can concentrate on her faceI am considering an actual sculpture of her, and to that end I've started building an armature for a two-foot model. It's been a while since I've done any sculpting, kinda anxious to get back into it. But first I think I'll do a life-size bust of her, I think that might help me with my model.
So much to do.
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Simply incredible. One for the gallery and then some.
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That is exceptional and inspirational!! Thanks for showing us.
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Yours is on par, well done.
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@solo said:
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Yours is on par, well done.
yeah, I saw that one. Had to laugh, but shouldn't have, he only calls it a Metropolis Style Robot and it's obvious he never intended it to be a true representation of the real one, just his interpretation of something similar. And nicely done, I must say.
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Well, she's standing
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Will you build the whole city beneath her too? Please do! I think you should give her some ground to step down!
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@jql said:
Will you build the whole city beneath her too? Please do! I think you should give her some ground to step down!
She never existed in the city, only in the lab, and only until she was transformed into the False Maria.
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@hellnbak said:
She never existed in the city, only in the lab, and only until she was transformed into the False Maria.
Faithful to the original as possible... nice!
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A really stunning piece of work. My total respect.
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Although I referred to her as "False Maria" in the title of this post, I shouldn't have. I did so only because a majority of people, for whatever reason, refer to her that way. I do not feel it is an accurate description of the robot.
The way I look at it, until the "essence" of Maria is copied to the robot, it is just a robot. It's only after the essence is copied, and she takes on the physical form of Maria, that she becomes the False Maria.
To me, it's sort of like calling an empty glass a glass of milk before the milk is poured in.
It just bothers me.
Actually, the robot was never supposed to become the False Maria. Rotwang built her with the intention of somehow infusing her with the spirit of his long-dead love Hel, but Joh Frederson, fearful of the real Maria's efforts to instill an uprising among the workers, convinces him to turn the robot into a False Maria to undo all her efforts.
Now, if someone can explain to me why I bothered explaining all that, I would really appreciate it
Yesterday I finally received my copy of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a very large and thick hardcover book that is supposedly the definitive resource for all things Metropolis. Well, I'll never know, it's all written in German. Sadly, it's going back
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