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Voronwë_the_Faithful
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Jn, this all stemmed from my observation in Diamond's invite thread that I didn't think she would be interested in b77 because I don't think there is much interest in discussing the LOTR films here. That opinion has not changed.


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Well, things might change with time. If there was some discussion starting up (say if The Hobbit was announced), she might want to take up the invitation then.

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That's quite a beautiful picture, Prim.

I know how to spell non sequitur, too :halo:


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Ah, I missed the connection, Voronwe.

Is M00bie the only place that Di posted? I don't remember seeing her anywhere else, but I wasn't much of a traveler myself.

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Thanks for your kind remark about this picture, Voronwe. My middle son made it--there is nothing real in the image, even the sky. He'd like to go into computer graphics/special effects as a career. He has a disability that keeps him from writing clearly or drawing, but with computers he's an artist, I think.

He designed the terrain, worked out the textures and colors, chose the camera and lighting angle and the qualities of the atmosphere--it's incredibly detailed work and calls for a vivid imagination. He told me once that he's always had these pictures in his head, but figured that with his disability they'd just stay there. Then he discovered 3D computer art. :)

Now our only problem is that he wants a render farm for his birthday.

Edit: (Here's a link to the full-sized image on Deviant Art, a computer art site. The name he uses for all this isn't his real name, of course.)

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Prim - :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q

I had one of his pics as my desktop at one point! You must be so incredibly proud. Those pics are just stunning.


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:Q WOW! :Q


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Thank you, Estel and Voronwe.

We think he's truly gifted, and we do what we can to open the way for him. (Except the render farm, darn it all! Pesky mortgage!) He's also our singer, in a local young men's choir, so with that and the art and starting high school, he's pretty busy. But he works so hard and with such focus that I think he'll go far, despite his disability (which really pains and embarrasses him--you can imagine how much, with an eye and imagination like his, it hurts him not to be able to draw a recognizable picture of a person or trace a map in class).

It really has eased my heart in the past couple of years to see him find this and his music. :)

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Incredible.

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Several things from an absolute non m00b: b77 makes me regret I never lurked into Movies on TORC.

Primula - the story of your pic is wonderful. I am really... moved. Hard to say.

Mummpizz.... if RP could one day become contagious for you, one of my dearest wished would come true. (serious). But the forum is still so small
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Din - big and sloppery kiss (which you will probably never find ;))

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Oh man, Prim, your son is a genius. He's just starting High School? That is amazing. When a really young person finds a metier like this ... it's so extraordinary to watch all their talent unfold. I bet you get chills when you look at his work!

Question: what is a render farm?

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A typo; should read "reindeer farm".

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Ohhhhh. Well ... that explains everything. :doh1: :uhoh:

(I love that little blue guy. He looks like the way I feel most of the time.)

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That's not a photo?? :Q

Wow... amazing!


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Thank you all for your kind remarks--I've passed them on to my son.

Jn, a render farm is a lot of computers yoked together and devoted to doing the calculations needed to generate images. (What the artist works with is wireframe sketches and lists of settings.) For the kind of large, clear moving 3D images in LotR it took dozens of very fast computers working constantly.

The larger original of the image in my sig took hours to render on my computer, fairly new and the fastest we have. My son sets up renders, and I start them when I go to bed.

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Thanks for the explanation, Prim. [sigh] With every day that passes I feel more and more like my own grandmother who never learned how to drive a car. :help:

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Prim, your boy is amazing.

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Oh, thanks, Anth! But I don't want to give the wrong impression--my son is not severely disabled; it just extends to the things I've mentioned, writing and drawing (a problem of brain wiring similar to the confusions of dyslexia). He has use of his hands otherwise. It's not comparable to the situation some kids have to face :( .

I am just used to calling it a disability without explanation or amelioration, because I've learned this is necessary in dealing with some of his teachers. Every year one or two of them persist in believing that my son could write clearly if he only worked harder at it (despite the fact that we have had a 504 and IEP filed for him for years). They suggest handwriting exercises and other things that don't help--you can't teach motor skills when the motor wiring isn't there.

And it is frustrating. This year they're drawing and coloring maps for his world geography class, and he utterly refuses to accept a simpler assignment because, he insists, it embarrasses him too much. So he labors for 10 or 12 hours to produce a map his classmates whip off in 1 or 2. It's gorgeous when he's done; he does have control when he works extremely slowly. But he gets the same A as the kid next to him, and the teacher uses it as evidence that, see, he can do it! Yes, if he spends his whole life at it, he can. :x

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I edited out my big sobby story, Prim... sometimes I get a bit over-mushy, I think. :neutral:

Congratulations to you and your son... he is an impressive lad!


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Well, I edited my response to be less specific, as I didn't know why you'd changed your mind.

(I thought it was a moving story, Anth.)

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