Lych Gates...
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A little morbid, found this on Wiki...
The word lych survived into modern English from the Old English or Saxon word for corpse, mostly as an adjective in particular phrases or names, such as lych bell, the hand-bell rung before a corpse; lych way, the path along which a corpse was carried to burial (this in some districts was supposed to establish a right-of-way); lych owl, the screech owl, because its cry was a portent of death; and lyke-wake, a night watch over a corpse (see Lyke-Wake Dirge).
In the Middle Ages when most people were buried in just shrouds rather than coffins, the dead were carried to the lych gate and placed on a bier, where the priest conducted the first part of the funeral service under its temporary shelter
John
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very impressive...
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once again
great work on that gate tadema.
Do you create textures for every work you do or do you have a folder with basic textures which you then layer with dirt (or moss) in photoshop?I wish I could sit on the chair next to yours while you work in one of your images...
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Mods, please can you stop John posting photographs up and claiming them for his own 'renders'. I find this very unfair on the rest of us.
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Beautiful work...as always, John. The texturing is a marvel to behold.
I'm surprised that so many people haven't heard the term before, but I suppose they're so ubiquitous in England that we just take them for granted and think everyone else has them too.
Here's a link to a wide collection of them....never seen two the same. There's some nice textures to be extracted from the larger versions of some of the pics. -
Nice link to lych gates. Thanks
Interesting topic.
We do have them in Norway too, but I wasn't aware of their function in the past, and afaik we don't use such a specific name for it.
Here's a nice, old one:
http://norske-kirkebygg.origo.no/-/bulletin/show/238188_ringebu-stavkirke# -
Both styles are fantastic.
Good to hear you putting together a portfolio for show! You absolutely should!
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@leedeetee said:
Mods, please can you stop John posting photographs up and claiming them for his own 'renders'. I find this very unfair on the rest of us.
yes please stop it. pictures saved. super work
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Wonderful model and render - you just get better and better...
@bjornkn - as an aside... there are many wonderful 'stave' churches in Norway. When I was visiting some of them a few years ago I was struck by how many of the locals who were buried in the churchyard shared the same name - 'Fred' - which seemed to be engraved on most tombstones... however, I soon realized that it's used in the sense of 'RIP' on British gravestones - 'Rest In Peace' - as 'Fred' is of course 'Peace' in Norwegian but 'Fred' is a first-name in English...
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@TIG: Yes, the stave churches are great ! I had the pleasure of modeling one of them, including animated construction process, almost 10 years ago - for online art history education at the University of Bergen
Pre-SU, but nice job..
And yes, Fred is indeed common on tombstones, or 'Hvil i fred' (Rest in peace), but we do have some Freds here too, as well as Fredrik and Freddy
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Just spotted the epitaph.
My favourite one is:
Here lie the bones of Elizabeth Charlotte
Born a virgin, died a harlot
She was aye (still) a virgin at seventeen
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Thank you all for the comments.
Lee, lol, posting pics sounds good but just think of all the fun modelling we would miss out on.
Alan, the Lych gates only seem to be on villages churches around here, maybe because the town churches are newer? I like that epitaph.
Bryan, I've no portfolio, these are all just for fun. Maybe I could look into setting up a web page, but it's beyond my abilities at the moment.
John, you should be able to zoom in if you save the image, I tried and it was viewable even at 1600px.
take care
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@leedeetee said:
Mods, please can you stop John posting photographs up and claiming them for his own 'renders'. I find this very unfair on the rest of us.
YEAH...your rendering skills are off the hook...totally unfair
You should give tutorials...
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Hey, dude
This is amazing, i scrolled through your posts, you have some really great models and renderings, i like the surreal style that you are pursuing. I am not browsing this forums as often I used to, but maaan, this is inspiring Cheers and keep em comming and don't forget to have fun whille modeling
Good humour! (Although I expected a frog)
It gets pixelated when I zoom in far enough to read it. 
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