nicjenn
09-13-2007, 11:24 AM
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Title: The Twilight of the Gods
Name: Marco Jennarelli
Country: Italy
Software: CINEMA 4D, Photoshop
Fall of the German Gods and damnation of the Ring for the last scene of Wagner's opera "The Ring of the Nibelung - The Twilight of the Gods".
The fall of the German Gods and the damnation of the Ring are described by Wagner in his opera "The Twilight of the Gods" (Bayreuth 1874) through an intense music rich in a mysterious, magnetic and otherworldly power. The image tries to recreate such special and peculiar atmosphere. The caustics conjure up the water of the river Rhine, from which the gold of the cursed ring comes from, and represent, at the same time, the musical "river Rhine" Theme used by Wagner at the beginning of the whole opera cycle "The ring of the Nibelung" and here at the end of the same opera cycle, describing the final fall of the German Gods and of their world/kingdom (the Wotan's throne in the image). Software used: Cinema 4D (3D throne and 3D ring), Shade 7 (3D Objects, 3D Scene and Renderings); Caustics Generator (Water Caustics); Photoshop (Final Composite, Colors and Lights).
Title: The Twilight of the Gods
Name: Marco Jennarelli
Country: Italy
Software: CINEMA 4D, Photoshop
Fall of the German Gods and damnation of the Ring for the last scene of Wagner's opera "The Ring of the Nibelung - The Twilight of the Gods".
The fall of the German Gods and the damnation of the Ring are described by Wagner in his opera "The Twilight of the Gods" (Bayreuth 1874) through an intense music rich in a mysterious, magnetic and otherworldly power. The image tries to recreate such special and peculiar atmosphere. The caustics conjure up the water of the river Rhine, from which the gold of the cursed ring comes from, and represent, at the same time, the musical "river Rhine" Theme used by Wagner at the beginning of the whole opera cycle "The ring of the Nibelung" and here at the end of the same opera cycle, describing the final fall of the German Gods and of their world/kingdom (the Wotan's throne in the image). Software used: Cinema 4D (3D throne and 3D ring), Shade 7 (3D Objects, 3D Scene and Renderings); Caustics Generator (Water Caustics); Photoshop (Final Composite, Colors and Lights).