This image, entitled "Love Remains", was created in Poser Pro 2012 and it took about 15 hours to assemble.  I wanted to tell the story of a relationship over a series of pictures arranged as someone might display in the foyer of their home. There are eight renders all together -- each of the photographs and the hallway vignette itself.  They were masked together in Photoshop and Keynote. 

In the first image a young girl, barely a teenager, has given a Valentine's Day card to a boy somewhat older than herself. His expression is one of dubious acceptance and hers borders on devotion.  The smaller center pictures in the vignette take the viewer through the loving events of their life together. They marry many years after  the first picture. A heart shaped box of chocolates, the beach, and morning sickness don't mix on another Valentine's Day. The young family takes a walk in an autumn wood. And the couple, a couple of decades older, revels in their daughter's graduation. Empty nesters, the couple are comfortable with each other in the second large photograph.  On the table is one more picture, framed in black.  It is a solitary portrait of the once smitten girl, her trepidation about what the future might hold replaced with contentment. There's a new handmade greeting card to a grandfather and an urn and a lighted remembrance candle. And the box that the chocolates once came in and a very ancient greeting card are saved memories brought out to honor this Valentine's Day.   

I was not only inspired by my parent's nearly 50 year marriage, but also by the way that Pixar told the story of Ellie and Carl's life together in the four wordless minute montage in Up. It was because of the inspiration from Up that I wanted to do this entry as a toon, rather than aim something a little more realistic.