{"id":1694,"date":"2003-10-05T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2003-10-05T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/create\/2003\/10\/05\/country_girl\/"},"modified":"2003-10-05T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2003-10-05T11:32:14","slug":"country_girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2003\/10\/05\/country_girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Country girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, an image you are working on can take a life of its own. This is what just happened for &#8216;country girl&#8217;.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>For the past few months, I have been trying to break away from the usual cliches of 3D characters (that is, something other than android-female-warrior-half naked). I believe a good way to do this is with more life like portraits.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I have been fascinated by the intensity that come through photographed portaits. A particularly striking example is the work of photographer <A href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemccurry.com\/\">Steve McCurry<\/A>. There is something special in the way the people he captured on film are looking back at the camera. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>This is what I tried to capture with this picture. One of his pictures of a little girl from Yugoslavia gave me the model I needed to learn from to capture the right expression and light, especially in the way it shines through her ruffled hair. This gave me also the occasion to use a 3D portrait as a base and bring up all the details with hand painting. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>It is just as fascinating to see how a few touches of color and seemingly random strokes can bring details to a picture. Somewhere along the way, color turns into light. It is one of the closest thing to magic I can think of.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, an image you are working on can take a life of its own. This is what just happened for &#8216;country girl&#8217;. For the past few months, I have been trying to break away from the usual cliches of 3D characters (that is, something other than android-female-warrior-half naked). I believe a good way to do this is with more life&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2003\/10\/05\/country_girl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[94,98],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","tag-painter-2","tag-poser","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/832302195_112b35b100_o.jpeg?fit=600%2C800","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-rk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}