| Why
"Eben"?
The name Eben comes from a
magician character I used to play in role playing
games, in my youth. :)
Eben is the pseudonym that
I chose right from the beginning to use on the
discussion forums, particularly that of NewTek
of course, but also the excellent CGTalk
whose passionate and sometimes turbulent community
I really like. 3DVF
is also a fine site that provides precious support
for French speakers.
Why archaeology? Are you an
archaeologist, an architect, or just interested?
:)
I do have photographic training
and I did use to take a lot of architectural pictures,
without knowing that, several years later, I would
be modelling buildings! I fell into archaeology
just through chance, but in the course of the
productions we've done, I've learnt a lot of facts
about the history of civilisations. Archaeologists
work like detectives, following the slightest
clues. In speaking with them I've tried to put
their discoveries together and imagine the missing
pieces of the puzzle. For doing that, they've
given me all sorts of documents, plans, illustrations
- sometimes you have to chose between several
solutions... you end up picking the one that seems
most probable, but without a time machine, it's
all hypothesis. You need to have both imagination
and scientific rigour.
This time, I've been really
finding out about the civilisations of central
America, like the Mayans. I really like their
sombre and symbolic aesthetic. On top of that,
just think, they built all those monuments, still
standing today, without the help of the wheel!
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