Appropos of absolutely nothing in particular.

[catpandaddy]

Sometimes my creative side gets bit by the CGI graphics-illustration bug.

It is one of those things that is easy to pick up but takes a lifetime to
master. I've been getting familiar with the concepts for a bit under a
year, on and off.

I won't flood the newsgroup with these very often, but this one turned out
good for a quick hour practice session. It's a very rough model of the
surface and lighting techniques to approximate a computer graphics version
of the Death Star from the original Star Wars film.

http://s585.photobucket.com/albums/ss300/brian651msp/DSworkinprogress.png

For the few here who might have an interest.

[Mike O'Brien]

"catpandaddy" <c...@cat.pan.net> wrote

> Sometimes my creative side gets bit by the CGI graphics-illustration bug.

> For the few here who might have an interest.

nice work

Regards,

Mike O'Brien

life is full of choices. choices have consequences

[Jules]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:25:50 -0600, catpandaddy wrote:
> I won't flood the newsgroup with these very often, but this one turned out
> good for a quick hour practice session. It's a very rough model of the
> surface and lighting techniques to approximate a computer graphics version
> of the Death Star from the original Star Wars film.
>
> http://s585.photobucket.com/albums/ss300/brian651msp/DSworkinprogress.png

Good work... what did you use to do it with?

In the early 90s I did a lot of stuff with Autodesk's 3D Studio, and
various dabblings with POV (DKBTrace as it was then) - then Autodesk
ruined the 3D Studio interface around the time they started moving to
Windows rather than DOS, and I lost interest somewhat.

I installed Blender a few months back, but holy cow it was confusing and I
decided I didn't have enough free time to really mess with it :-)
Hopefully I'll have chance to revisit that again sometime...

cheers

Jules

[catpandaddy]

"Jules" <jules.rich...@remove.this.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2009.11.14....@remove.this.gmail.com...

Don't work with Blender at this moment, wait for 2.5 to come out. It is a
complete re-work.

My ex just told me the lights are too yellow and dark. Then she told me it
reminded her of a pet salamander she used to have. Then she asked if I was
going to keep it that way. Cute.

I just said hey, it's a ten minute rough draft and can be thought of as a
blueprint. Only without the blue, and without the print.

[Lutsen Lumberjack]

On Nov 13, 5:25 pm, "catpandaddy" <c...@cat.pan.net> wrote:
> Sometimes my creative side [...]

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