I loved the statues in Montpellier! They weren't like Rome's in that sense of being the greatest statues in the history of mankind, but they were charming. Oh how charming they were! Putti riding lions and unicorns? I mean, seriously? And there were a lot of these sorts of statues. Most of the sweet little squares of Montpellier centered on or featured some kind of statue. It was delightful. Who doesn't want to see unicorns when wandering their city? And putti? And lions with putti?
Here are some unfiltered pictures of some of the statuary of Montpellier to show you what I'm talking about. After you acquaint yourself with these we'll procede to what I am up to today.
Inspired by these Montpellier statues I wanted to make some of my own statuary for the squares of Montpellier. No stranger to making fake statues, as those rare special few of you remembering my Clerkmanifestoland theme park pictures will be able to concur, I fortunately have some improved tools to work with.
This still took a hundred generations, redesigns, and reiterations to get to the vein of stuff I was looking for. But I now have a happy little handful of new statues for the squares of Montpellier. As a surprising bonus, after having now shown you all sorts of "real" pictures of Montpellier, I'm not sure these below don't capture best the spirit and the feel of the place to me.
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