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Now Here's a Strange Question for ya.
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:26 am
by dragoon47
What is Athena's Avatar supposed to be? It looks familiar but I can't put my finger on it.
I just want to know the avatar of the AI that has been destroying my armies since 2007!
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:23 am
by Primasprit
A strange question indeed!
Well... I thought the Avatar is supposed to be... well, Athena?
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:08 pm
by Pocus
It is a shot taken after a statue made by a French artist of the XIXth century I believe... alas I don't remember his name, but Sunray* managed to find more infos (that I lost in a hard drive crash).
*: he sometime passes around in the forum and is a funding member of the Studio.
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:17 am
by dragoon47
Ahh ok, thanks for the infomation, that narrows it down a lot more than I thought, especially the time period.
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:49 pm
by Pocus
the actual picture is taken from a photo of a RPG game using a close shot of the statue, type Nobilis in google image. Amongst references to the French game publisher Nobilis, you should find an image of Nobilis ,the RPG. You can also PM Sunray if he remembers the artist's name.
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:57 am
by dragoon47
Thanks a lot, I found the artist and everything. It's a very interesting peice of artwork I must say.
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:41 am
by arsan
dragoon47 wrote:Thanks a lot, I found the artist and everything. It's a very interesting peice of artwork I must say.
Hey! we want to know too!
Let us know what you found!
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:31 pm
by Primasprit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NobilisThe picture:
Wikipedia wrote:A detail of Charles van der Stappen's sculpture "The Sphinx Mysterieux" [...]
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:18 pm
by arsan
Thanks Prima!
Aha! so our Athena avatar is not Athena!
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:50 pm
by Primasprit
arsan wrote:[...]Aha! so our Athena avatar is not Athena!
Your astuteness is overwhelming.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:43 pm
by Pocus
From Squirrel to Sponge: Don't mock the Playmobil, lest a rain of Monkeys will strike you hard!
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:48 pm
by arsan
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:38 pm
by Primasprit
Neither mocking nor flattering. Pure admiration.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:44 pm
by arsan
Primasprit wrote:Neither mocking nor flattering. Pure admiration.
Are you mocking me?? uh!? uh!?
(with de Niro's Taxi Driver voice
)
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:36 am
by Pocus
Is he mocking your wife?
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:19 pm
by arsan
Pocus wrote:Is he mocking your wife?
Troll!
So he was mocking me... i thought he was flattering me... 