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The Making of "Amazons vs Greeks" by D. Saccheri

Posted by Werewolfking on January 4, 2009, 23:04:40

Here's the email that I got from Woman Of Action Network (www.woa.tv) about David Saccheri and their website. After I read about David being a professional artist working for films, I can only hope that someday he'll draw another fantastic rendering like his "Amazons vs Greeks". Here's the email they sent to me:
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Hi Wolfy-

We appreciate the feedback on the painting! A lot of work went into it.

It was an original painting that woa.tv produced collaboratively together with its sister companies Rearden Studios and Ice Blink Studios, and we contracted with David Saccheri as the master painter of the final work. The production involved:

1. researching accurate period clothing, weapons, armor and architecture

2. hiring professional fight directors and actors/actresses to pose in realistic combat positions

3. renting costumes and weapons from Hollywood studios

4. photographing the actors/actresses in costume with weapons for foreground battles

5. creating 3D renderings of many of the background battles

6. then, having David select and composite the elements for reference and then hand-paint the scene artistically and dramatically

7. And, after that, there were several iterations between David and the production team and combat/historical experts until the scene was not only exciting and beautiful, but quite historically accurate and realistic, particularly taking into consideration what the fight directors (one of whom was a woman) felt would be the way that women would fight in that era. You may note details like the woman on the left driving her knee into the thigh of an opponent near an arrow wound. Given her smaller frame, there is the sort of opportunity a woman would exploit in close combat.

There are several other original paintings produced in a similar fashion by woa.tv and its sister companies, working with different artists:

1. Woman Samurai: http://www.woa.tv/popups/larger/hi_samurai_01.html

2. Gladiators: http://www.woa.tv/articles/hi_gladiators.html

3. Catalina de Erauso: http://www.woa.tv/popups/larger/hi_deerausoc_01.html

4. And, Amazons: http://www.woa.tv/popups/larger/hi_amazonexist_04.html

In each case, we were unable to find an image that we felt accurately represented the historical characters, so we produced our own. We hope to produce more in the future.

David does do commissioned artwork, but mostly portraiture. This was a unusual project for him, closer to the work that he has done for motion pictures while working for Ice Blink than his usual work, and as described above, it was a very complex production involving a large team. David’s website is: http://www.goldenhourart.com/.

Best,

Lisajo Cohen

Executive Assistant

Women of Action Media