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Humble beginnings... About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Humble beginnings... // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by ProfessorKhaos // Dec 14, 2008, 6:30am ProfessorKhaos Total Posts: 622 Was rumaging through my drives this week searching for a bitmap texture I never found but it did remind me of some of the fun that was had over the years. Rendering animations was a bit tedious because it tied up the only computer I had at the time and often went for many hours and my skills were quite limited at the time. Nevertheless, seeing this very primitive short clip brought a smile to my face (but not to the character within). This was my attempt at experimenting with facial expressions using animated objects instead of rigs or morphs (something I knew very little about). Generous use of the "look at" constraint were used for obvious reasons. I think this may have been just after the purchase of symbiont and the eyeballs might be a texture from that. Lately I've been more into procedural animation via scripting since I seem to get pretty good results that way. I think at the time I had watched some robot animation where they didn't have many facial parts to work with (long before the age of WALL-E) and were trying to express as much as possible with a few simple parts. trueSpace has come a long way since those days. Please feel free to add your own examples. Thought it might be fun to see some of our current artists' humble beginnings :) P.S. No actual flies were harmed in the making of this short clip (a simple sphere was used instead). Post by RAYMAN // Dec 14, 2008, 7:36am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 My humble beginnings were in Terragen ! Then Bryce ... before I came to Truespace 4. The nice thing about Terragen is that you always end up with a photorealistic result compared to the investment in time and effort its a program that has brought lots of people to 3d:D Trouble is to find my first render....and so many cd-s to to look through.:o And I´m not one of the tidy people.. Post by Steinie // Dec 14, 2008, 9:43am Steinie Total Posts: 3667 Here are two renderings I did over 11 years ago with trueSpace. Post by RAYMAN // Dec 14, 2008, 11:05am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Interesting Steinie ! i wsas experimenting with aliens too ... this is not my first render I did but was pretty early one with a terragen background like I said before:D Post by Nez // Dec 15, 2008, 3:46am Nez Total Posts: 1102 Well, I guess I've been using tS since version 1 (or SE as it was described on the cover-disc...), which amounts to about 10 years. I can't find much of any 'experimental' stuff I did whilst toying withe the programme - the first 'serious' image I did was back in 2000 for a competition, using tS4.3, see below...

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