Hello Friends: I want to show you today a fine piece of work. A very
talented artist called Eric Gross (collaborator for the Pyramid Gallery
website and fellow Hellraiser fan), has designed and produced a very
stylish and detailed DVD entitled "Lemarchand's Portolio". I was lucky
enough to receive a copy, so now I can review it and hopefully show you
guys how it's definitely worth getting a copy of this very entertaining
and highly collectible DVD.
WATCH THE DVD TRAILER HERE:
For starters, let me say that the amount of work and time spent on each
of these designs and animations that follow is for most of us,
astronomic. The rendering of these 3D clips is done first as a
wireframe, then textures are applied, light sources, motion, etc; frame
by frame, painstakingly they are rendered, and I know for a fact many
times some rendering processes failed miserably, throwing into the
Recycle Bin many consecutive hours of computer work.
My DVD was custom burned as a PAL DVD (I live in Region 2), and the
printed surface looked great as you can see on the photo; no problems
making it work on the standalone DVD reader in the living room and it's
great to watch the different Pandoric designs in a big screen rather
than just the computer. Below I show you the animated menus, with
well-picked music from classic pieces and music box tunes. The material
in this DVD is divided in 3 sections:
The Galleries, The Pandorics, & Bonus Footage.
The Galleries
- You get several galleries with stills and animated clips, of dozens
of Lament Configuration designs, many of which are already listed at
the Pyramid Gallery. Some animations and stills of a digitally rendered
LeMarchand and cenobites are also included. As you move and travel
through these prolific galleries, you are swayed by soft classical
music, or some moody themes tinkling away.
The Pandorics - My personal
favourite section. In this section you will find top notch animations
showing some boxes in greater detail, and how they solve themselves.
The detail in these anmations is absolutely insane. Cogs, music
mechanisms and rotating pannels are shown in glimpses while the
Pandoric solves itself, along with all sorts of sound effects which add
to the realism of these sliding cogs and pieces. The Pandorics on
display are: The well-known Jeremiad Enigma, The Mason's Keystone, The Ten Dragons of Minister Wu Yi (a beautiful sphere), The Sanguine Apotheosis, and the pyramid-shaped Atlantean Tetramorph.
While these creations rotate and move of their own volition for your
pleasure, magic formulas are whispered and Pinhead's laughter echoes as
the Pandorics reach their final stages of resolution. If your arm hair
doesn't stand up on your arms, then you're dead.
Here's a lower quality YouTube version of the Atlantean Tetramorph solving:
The Bonus Footage
is much better than initially the name might make you believe. The
animations have the same level of quality and you see some clips of
solving boxes in alternate stages and travel across LeMarchand's
desktop.
I treasure this great Portfolio as one of the finest fan-made, Professional grade work in my collection.
Below is Eric's message which started it all. I've been posting this in
several places, because I honestly think this is a piece of work that
every Hellraiser/Lemarchand fan should have in their collection.
Please be sure to contact him through his email:
godslittleglitch064@yahoo.com
"I have been finishing up a collected works of my gallery for DVD and
am about to offer it. The quality is much better, with menus and extra
art. It's about an hour long. I'm offering it to those interested
and taking orders. Its on a professional level and going for $25
plus postage. Thought you might be interested."
