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WIPPY wip thing
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WIPPY wip thing // Work in Progress
Post by spacekdet // Sep 7, 2007, 12:45pm
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Seeking feedback on this image.
(No I'm not..<link removed to protect personal property>) |
Post by Steinie // Sep 7, 2007, 1:02pm
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Well it might be a horrible place, painted all green on the inside or it could be seen partly in truePlace WIP Gallery....
It has a slight Dali surrealistic feel about it and something keeps making me believe your sending a message. Pebble Beach, Key to the Kingdom, Stairway to Heaven, I also ponder the bodies hidden within those pebbles or am I seeing things.
I like it! |
Post by b_scotty // Sep 7, 2007, 3:23pm
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There is something I find vaguely disturbing about that staircase, but I don't know what exactly that is. :)
I like the image, though. One question, is the light pole/post thingy part of the boat hull, or is that just an illusion of perspective?
Nice work! |
Post by 3dvisuals dude // Sep 7, 2007, 11:45pm
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Seeking feedback on this image. (http://www.spacekdet.com/rendr07/goodquestion05a_sml.jpg)
To me it says:
When your quest (the boat)
has taken you to a dismal place (the dusky sky)
where no help presents itself (no sails nor even light from a broken lamp)
to guide or direct you, and you
are left to take steps unto
unfamiliar ground, (the strange terrain)
take heart that you are near
your journey's end. (the key being nearby)
Though hope (the key itself)
may seem witheld from you (the tower)
and the world itself
beyond repair, (cracked globe above tower)
just a few steps more
are required of you. (the staircase)
Beware in these final steps,
for the success of your quest
may rely in the end upon the
weakest of foundations indeed. (the feather)
Nice work.;)
- 3dvisuals dude |
Post by butterpaw // Sep 8, 2007, 2:54am
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Ooh spacekdet! I didn't know you were a surrealist...
my eye is delighted and my mind fascinated...................................
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uhm.. talk to ya later ^_^ |
Post by jayr // Sep 9, 2007, 2:26am
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i love the texture on the rocks(?) how did you do it? |
Post by spacekdet // Sep 10, 2007, 5:47am
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Steinie: Bodies hidden in the rocks, eh? You know what they say about a true friend...they'll help you hide the body!
BScotty: The phone pole is in the place of a mast. Keep your eyes peeled because it may reveal itself to be something else in time.
3DVis: Outstanding interpretations! I found them more interesting than the actual image!
Butterpaw: This is not a surrealist.-->spacekdet.
Jay: It was easy: a landscape generator plugin and a photograph of some Lake Superior (http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=%22Lake+Superior%22&m=text) beach cobbles. You really can't go wrong using a Great Lake as an endless texture source.
Updates are necessarily slow; this sucker takes more than a day to render. |
Post by Norm // Sep 10, 2007, 7:22am
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It has a bit of a "Gitche Gumee" feel to it :) |
Post by butterpaw // Sep 10, 2007, 8:12am
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Butterpaw: This is not a surrealist.-->spacekdet.
It isn't? you aren't?! oh, my... excuse me then, I'm just confuzzled! :p
(not an unusual state for me)
^_^ |
Post by spacekdet // Sep 10, 2007, 8:34am
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Whoops... I forgot to add the link!
"Butterpaw: This is not a surrealist.-->spacekdet." |
Post by jayr // Sep 10, 2007, 10:09am
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Whoops... I forgot to add the link!
"Butterpaw: This is not a surrealist.-->spacekdet."
ahhh, that makes more sense now! |
Post by butterpaw // Sep 11, 2007, 2:25am
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LOLZ!
thanks, spacekdet, for the disconfuzzlement! :D
<teh butter purrs >
I had perused your site extensively, and enjoyed the Magritte homage.. :cool: - didn't I see that pipe in the cabin somewhere, too?
btw, meet Granny Rose (http://butterpaw.deviantart.com/art/Granny-Rose-34307463) - could be interesting to model her.. but it's beyond me, for a while yet... ;) |
Post by spacekdet // Sep 11, 2007, 9:31am
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Yeah, I'm sure the pipe model made it into the Cabin at some point... both grandpas used to smoke them so I had to include some in the Cabin scenes. I'm not shy at all about recycling models and scenes, as this latest WIP amply illustrates.
If it were me, I'd model 'Granny Rose' using NURBS.
They aren't for everyone and can be...'quirky' to work with, but are excellent for fluid, organic surfaces like rose petals.
I'm sure you could also use SDS if you are more comfortable using that method instead. There have been several rose models/renders in the caliGallery, so it's indeed possible to make them. |
Post by butterpaw // Sep 12, 2007, 2:39pm
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Thanks for the encouragement! ...although it probably shouldn't be the very first thing I try, but it's on my list now :)
Now that I finally realized that many of the lovely video tutorials I received in download are actually not for 7.5 my confusion has abated considerably, and I am chugging along through 'yer ackshul' manual. "I think I can! I think I can!"
where's that 'little engine that could' emote :D
I may even figure out the ... ahem .... <__< library >__> (shhh.. you didn't hear that)
p.s. I reuse..too, :icon_PolySphere: (ooh playdoh!)
p.p.s. my gran'pa smoked a cigar (not allowed in the house) and I loved walking out in the garden with him when he went out to smoke.. to this day that smell brings him immediately to mind (time travel) ;)
.. and I've just thought of another thing to model (not a cigar, but the box.. decorated in a special way)
^_^ |
Post by opiejuan // Sep 13, 2007, 7:02am
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That looks very much like what it will take to get broadband internet out to my house in the sticks :)
Good to see you are still doing renders that make me think and ponder. I've been missing that for a while now. Bravo!
Opie |
Post by Steinie // Sep 13, 2007, 7:52am
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That looks very much like what it will take to get broadband internet out to my house in the sticks :)
Good to see you are still doing renders that make me think and ponder. I've been missing that for a while now. Bravo!
Opie
Are you the same Opie from 3 or 4 Forums ago were we used Rock and Chisel?
Welcome either way. errrr you are BACK right?
Steinie
(Krout back then)
"We can all get nostalgic about the glory days of the TSML (tSx announcements,
flame wars, great WIPs from Terry Halliday, Opie Juan, Andrew Moffit, Dr.
Wall, etc.) but that community is just not there anymore. There is very
little to no plugin development going on anymore and a lot of the old timers
(self included) who relied on the TSML in those days have moved on." |
Post by opiejuan // Sep 13, 2007, 9:41am
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Are you the same Opie from 3 or 4 Forums ago were we used Rock and Chisel?
Welcome either way. errrr you are BACK right?
Steinie
(Krout back then)
"We can all get nostalgic about the glory days of the TSML (tSx announcements,
flame wars, great WIPs from Terry Halliday, Opie Juan, Andrew Moffit, Dr.
Wall, etc.) but that community is just not there anymore. There is very
little to no plugin development going on anymore and a lot of the old timers
(self included) who relied on the TSML in those days have moved on."
Guilty :)
And...well...yes. I'm back. But for now I'm just looking at ALL the pretty renders you guys have made while I was away. You all make me proud. I gotta stop now before I start shedding tears. Way To Go TrueSpacers! |
Post by spacekdet // Sep 17, 2007, 5:46am
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Still picking away at this. I ran this test render by the IRC crowd, now it's your turn. The main impression people seem to get is that the reflective domes are lights; they were intended to be cameras. (They look a little strange right now because all they are reflecting is the red interior of the boat)And, depending on how you look at it, eyes. My question is: Should I model a more recognizable 'traffic control' type of camera, or keep the ambiguous, more eyeball shaped ones like I have here. I wanted to indicate the idea of surveillance and also to form the shape of a face. Thoughts, suggestions, critiques always welcome.
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Post by opiejuan // Sep 17, 2007, 6:12am
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Tough one Mick. As it is now, I think the impression of a face is subtle but there. I may be the minority here, but in our neck of the woods I have never seen this type of traffic camera, so to me they look like some sort of lighting object. And short of a sign pointing to them and saying 'survailance camera here' or a monitor wired in showing the camera feeds I don't know how to pull it off.
The more recognizable traffic camera I am familiar with honestly just doesn't fit, in my mind, to what you are trying to achieve.
So, hmmmmm.........
So I guess, other than the below comment, I have nothing to say of any importance :)
As a side note, I like the cabling/rigging to the pole and cameras. Nice job mixing the industrial with the nautical. |
Post by butterpaw // Sep 17, 2007, 1:43pm
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oh, spacekdet, it's definitely watching me O_O I saw that face right away, and yes I thought it was lights, but loooking at me! The reflections increase the sense of them being eyes.. but to me it seemed they were also 'lights'
artful face there... ;) |
Post by TheWickedWitchOfTheWeb // Sep 17, 2007, 1:50pm
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Lights as well for me I'm afraid. I've only ever seen the domed style of surveillance cameras in stores and they tend to have a much deeper 'bowl'.
I know you intend them to be cameras by why not just leave them anyway? Some will see lights, some will see cameras, but all will see a representation of eyes. |
Post by pixl8r // Sep 19, 2007, 5:21pm
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Mick, very interesting. I'd add a pair of shoes hanging from the telephone pole. I always seem to notice shoes hanging from power/phone lines. |
Post by spacekdet // Oct 12, 2007, 5:59pm
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Not dead yet...
just sidetracked on modeling.
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Post by butterpaw // Oct 12, 2007, 9:44pm
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mmmm.. nifty modeling there spacekdet ^_^ |
Post by MadMouse // Oct 13, 2007, 1:16am
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Nice piece of modeling on that camera Mick. Bravo sir. |
Post by Steinie // Oct 13, 2007, 3:47am
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I thought you were dead...
Nice to see you continue that piece! Much more detailed and really well done. I see they have windshield wipers, do they squirt blue water too?.:) |
Post by spacekdet // Oct 13, 2007, 10:35am
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Prettied up a little bit. Onward to texturing.
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Post by butterpaw // Oct 13, 2007, 11:22am
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Heh heh .. it's getting interesting..:) |
Post by W!ZARD // Oct 13, 2007, 10:26pm
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Big Brother is watching! George Orwell would be proud of you!
Some nice sharp modelling there Space'. We have lot's of that old style CCTV cameras here though usually without the wiper.
Mick, very interesting. I'd add a pair of shoes hanging from the telephone pole. I always seem to notice shoes hanging from power/phone lines.
Chuckle - in this neck of the woods the LAST place you would see shoes hanging from power lines is anywhere near a camera! Usually a pair of shoes in the power lines is a signpost for those in the know - the house the shoes are outside is a 'tinnie house' or in other words a place to score some weed! This activity doesn't usually go with security cameras!!:D |
Post by spacekdet // Nov 24, 2007, 11:47am
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To paraphrase Alfred E. Neuman:
What? Me Hurry? |
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