King Kong Rhino

[jodyc111]

I was doing some Cycles renders recently with an old model and I had found a nice HDRI of the waterfront in Venice that worked well with the perspective of my sailboat model. As I rotated the camera I noticed what looked like a chrome Rhino on the seawall and that got my curiosity up. Sure enough after a bit of Google Fu I found that there is indeed an 8 meter x 4 meter Stainless Steel Rhinoceros sculpture by a Chinese artist there in Venice. Smaller versions appear to be readily available for purchase and I think one would be perfect at the entrance to McNeel headquarters!

My render

Image from web

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

@jodyc111

one would be perfect at the entrance to McNeel headquarters

But where would we put the bronze one? And what can we charge kids to sit on it? - Bob usually gets five dollars a pop, to defray costs.

-Pascal

[maje90 (Riccardo Majewski)]

It currently is in my city, Bassano del Grappa.

[Joseph_Culbert]

I honestly thought your image of that Rhino blast from the past was AI generated Riccardo.

But it checks out! Send more photos if you can.

[maje90 (Riccardo Majewski)]

I googled a bit and it seems this was placed here since something like 2019… ? I’m not sure…

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And last, a better view of “Il ponte vecchio” literally “the old bridge”.

[skysurfer]

Another one is in Ancona, piazza Pertini

And also Brescia has one