The Characters

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Our character modelers Vinny Argentina and Carl Ahlund used <a href="http://www.alias.com" target="_blank">Alias/Wavefront’s Maya</a> to model <br> </span><span class="infoVV">and texture the performer models.</span></p> <p align="left"><span class="infoVV">In most cases, as with Frank Bush, we must rely on photographs and verbal descriptions of the performers.</span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="7"> <tr> <td width="26%" height="331" valign="top"><div align="left"> <p><img src="images/frankphoto.jpg" width="208" height="298" border="2"> <img src="images/frankphoto2.jpg" width="346" height="298" border="2"><br> <span class="infoVV"><font size="1"><strong>Photo of the real Bush in the Jewish costume, juxtaposed with our model in character.</strong></font></span></p> </div></td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td class="infoVV"><p align="left" class="infoVV">In the case of Sandow, who had one of the most famous and well-documented bodies of his time, we also drew on two <a href="http://www.sandowmuseum.com/sandowfilm.html" target="_blank">films</a> of <br> Sandow created by Thomas Edison – among the first films ever made – and detailed measurements of Sandow’s muscles taken <br> in 1894 by Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent of Harvard University.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="7"> <tr> <td width="26%" height="331" valign="top"><div align="left"><img src="images/measure.jpg" width="420" height="438" border="2"></div></td> </tr> </table> <p><span class="bg"> <map name="Map2"> <area shape="rect" coords="507,66,590,88" href="#"> <area shape="rect" coords="599,65,705,89" href="#"> <area shape="rect" coords="715,63,790,90" href="#"> </map> </span></p>  </BODY>