The Temptation of Percival

While browsing the Web, I spotted a work by English artist Arthur Hacker from the late 19th century called “The Temptation of Percival” ([link]). I liked it so much I decided to do a similar work using Poser Characters and Vue 8. I wasn't trying to copy it so much as use it as a starting point. I tried to get the knight’s pose as close as possible, but I changed the temptress considerably. I just didn’t like her pose in the original, nor did I really care for her hair style. I also left out the blurry figure that appears behind Percival in the original as I feel he didn’t really add much.

The characters were posed in Poser 6. The rest of the scene was created using Vue 8. Vue 8 was used to do the final render which took 37 hours using an AMD Phenom X4 quad core 3.2 GHz with 9GB of memory. A great deal of post work was done in GIMP.

Credits:


Percival is Daz3d's "Michael 3.0" from Daz3d([link])

The armor and sword are from "The Knight Errant for Michael 3.0" by Valandar and Out of Touch, purchased at Daz3d([link])

Percival’s Skin is from Lancelot for M3 by RawArt purchased at Daz3d([link])

Percival’s Hair is Mihai hair by Neftis, purchased at Daz3d([link])

The temptress is Daz3d’s Victoria 4 ([link])
Her gown is Carib98's Nuisette No9 which is a free download from Renderosity ([link])
Her hair is Gwenith Hair by Little fox available at Runtime DNA ( [link])
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