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[asdaricus]

Roughly twenty years ago or more (like 2005 and earlier), practically another lifetime for me, I did 3D-modeling and then renders of my models in a now fully ancient software application called 'Bryce.' It was lots of fun, though I certainly wasn't going to quit my day job. This picture is called 'Azalang Palace.' It's supposed to be an extra-dimensional palace in the mythical city of Azalamb.

by Bryce

I'll be posting more of these, so you can see how far digital art has come.

[asdaricus]

These fabulous and fabulously enriched coffers are on the soffit of the vault of the interior of Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Rome. You can see the square coffers on the underside of the arches on both ends of the vault. The underside of an arch is called an 'intrados.' You can also see the square and rectangular coffers on the cross vault beyond the far arch on the lower portion of the image.

[asdaricus]

Fine Men's footwear from the Roman Age. Here we see what the well-heeled wear on their feet. Preserved in stone for centuries, these leather shoes are ornate and suitable for rulers, some even for emperors.

[asdaricus]

Here are some more guilloche moldings from Italy, mainly from stuff in the Vatican Museums. They’re marvelous. :)

[asdaricus]

I went to Rome this past September. I visited the Vittorio Emanuele monument and saw the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento inside. I encountered this exquisite guilloche molding.  Such treasures stuff the land of Italy. :)

[asdaricus]

This is another screen capture of a large part of the World of Asdar. It's the western part of the Old World and is based a lot on Europe and western Asia (middle East) and north Africa. I created it over many, many years in Freehand. What you cannot see that looks like blobs is actually very fine detail if you zoom up.

[asdaricus]

Heart of Azalamb

This is my favorite 'old' render that I did. I did all of the modeling in the scene in 3DS Max. It was rendered in Bryce.

It's meant to depict the extra-planar and extra-dimensional Titan City of Azalamb. It's where some of the Titans fled when great destruction fell upon the World of Asdar in its antediluvian past. Yeah, my love of domed cities reaches way back!

by Bryce

[asdaricus]

These are gryphons (griffons) ornamenting the legs of a sarcophagus that is now in the Vatican Museum. The gryphon was an important mythical beast from ancient Greece and Roman. It was kind of winged lion, but its head was different. It sometimes had a beak like a bird. It has become a favorite mythical beast for me. Anything that supports a table or perhaps a sarcophagus is called a trapezophorus.