The project took place over 7 months, commencing with two studio sessions (in December and February) at Urban Studios in London. This was followed by much photo editing to produce the complete group as one image and the building of a 3D software model which would provide the backdrop. I guess that had I been able to work full time on the project, I could have finished in within a month, maybe even less, but bills have to be paid... The final image at full size (not feaured here as it's just too big) is a 51 megapixel image and the uncompressed photoshop file is over 356 megabytes...

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The studio set out for the shoot. The models were photographed in groups of three and later compositted into the complete group. Because the layout would have to be replicated for the second shoot, the position of everything had to be measured.	myself with Kittie, Sasha and Roze at the second shoot in February, discussing the original Da Vinci painting ...and eating Pringles.	Each group of three models were photographed in different sets of poses, I took several hundred shots on each occassion from which the best were later selected. I'd never worked with anyone other than the Divine G and I can't say that I slept well the night before the shoot... I needn't have worried - everyone was so friendly, professional and very patient.
The Divine G (in plain clothes) fine-tuning the poses during the first shoot in December.	Kerosene and Marcus .	Mellie and Dolly.
	Roze, Kittie and Dolly bite the forbidden fruit, discover their nakedness and quickly get clothed, just in case God turns up in one of his moods.

A composite of four renderings showing the room in various stages of build from a basic wireframe on the left, through to a fully textured and lit model on the right. The final model was very detailed and each rendering of an image took about 14 hours. As you can imagine, making minor lighting changes and having to wait overnight to see what effect they had made progress rather painful at times.

Comparing the two... I wanted the model's poses to be close, but not identical to the original (in fact, unless you are working with two-dimensional models, the way that Da Vinci painted the group is pretty much impossible to duplicate - in many places people occupy the same physical space. Not surprisingly this has been studied extensively in Italy and if you're having trouble sleeping you can read about it here ). What I wanted to do was to reproduce the key elements in terms of the four groups of three and central character which is what makes the image instantly recognisable.

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