I can work from the image you posted, Gary. No other effort required.
When I can find the time to do a mock-up, I'll send pictures. I'll build the forms formtue bending from the mock-up.
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I can work from the image you posted, Gary. No other effort required.
When I can find the time to do a mock-up, I'll send pictures. I'll build the forms formtue bending from the mock-up.
Hi Gare - thanks for the tips - in the meantime I have found the Logo creation on YouTube (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMN5XfP7U2o) its quite neat - I'm not sure why I thought it was your work - a senior moment I think!!
Cheers Geoff H
Hi Geoff—
Narrenzunft Kalbach is very ambitious and does nice work on behalf of Xara_Users.com. I'm glad you located the tutorial you were looking for, and no, you're not having a "Senior Moment"! With Xchris, Frances and others creating video tutorials, it's easy to mistake my work for theirs.
Okay. Now back to me... :)
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A study in colour and geometry, and seeing what sort of photorealism I could coax out of Maxwell Render.
My Best,
Gary
This is 99% Photoshop work, and 2% modeling and rendering some of the beach toys. That's more than 100%, isn't it?
And I didn't get the complete model in the best frame I took, so below the knees is a different model.
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My Best,
Gary
I have nothing but the greatest admiration for typographer/illustrator/architect Roger Dean.
So this is a homage, not intended to be a parody. It was quite difficult to execute, a lot of modeling and filtering of images was involved, the typography is pure Xara...
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Nice 3D Gary. I agree the Mackintosh chairs aren't really for sitting on, just for looking at ...
The "YES" cover cover ... is really good. Roger Dean is my Hero, his work is amazing. The first one I remember seeing (and identifying) was the cover to "Tales from Topographic Oceans"
Thanks, Keith. Agreed on both counts.
I owed Fragile before Tales...and could see a Master in the rough. Mr. Dean's work only got better, more detailed and more definitive of a group he drew for and believed in. Look at what he did with the Asia cover art.
Yes (also!): the Reneé Mackintosh furniture are what Frank Lloyd Wright did with architecture: The Guggenheim in Manhattan for example. The paintings hung there are impossible to appreciate because Wright made the winding staircase too narrow. Which is lovely to look at from the outside and do little else but be impressed with Wright's visionary architecture, but forget the artists who work is encased in Wright's ego. Similarly, Mackintosh designed to be appreciated for his aesthetics, not human comfort!
My Best,
Gary
I like that Gare. I saw one of those once, the one I saw was probably a reproduction though considering where it was.
I do have a question, what is the shape I circled? Is it a cup, chamber pot, what?
Part looks like it could be a logo, Is the whole thing a logo?
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Sorry for the vagueness of that artifact. It was supposed to be a piece of bric-a-brac, in the same style as the furniture and Mackintosh's detail work.
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What I did was take a character from a font called Mackintosh Ornaments, sent it to my modeling program, and then extruded the glyph along a semi-circular path. It was uninspired, at the 11th hour to get it to a publisher, and in retrospect, I have no idea where you'd put such a thing around the house!
My Best,
Gary
As long as there are imps, there will be imp-candescent lightbulbs. Thanks the late, great sir Terry Pratchett for the inspiration:
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I seem to be going through a traditional light bulb phase here!
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This piece is a combination of a rendered model of the bulb, then Expressions to do the clouds, and finally Xara for retouching work, specifically on the shadows. I'd love to see a cloud brush in version 11, if anyone could build one!
My Best,
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Just admit it's a torture chamber pot Gary!Quote:
... or a chamber pot?
You really don't want me to put an iron maiden on top of that bric-a-brac piece, Eric, because I would do it.
How about instead I spin a short story that explains the following piece.
As a sci-fi head as a child, I used to dote on the cheesy space ships in the B movies. And I actually saved up enough to buy the space ship I found in the back of a comic book.
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All parties that took advantage of tykes ordering this are probably dead by now, so I feel no remorse posting their ad.
Cheap cardboard, took ages to assemble, fell apart the second time I sat in it.
Okay, so this is a mash-up of the comic book offer and the B-movies, done the way they should have been done from the get-go:
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Cheap cardboard, took ages to assemble, fell apart the second time I sat in it.
It was never designed for adults, Gare..
I half remember a similar thing that used to be a submarine you could sit in. I think the ads were in DC Super-Hero comics.
Sadly, all mine were thrown out. I hate to think what their value would be today.
No, no, Paul, you misunderstood me. I haven't sat in the rocket ship for at least two years.
Mine was from DC Comics, too, Green Lantern most likely. But enough back-story!
The art? The art? Thumbs up on the art?
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So light-speed to 2016.
I just got a plug-in for Cinema 4D that adds detail—actual small pieces, not a bump map—to meshes. I only tried out a cube below, so it sort of looks like a Borg ship from Star Trek, the added fake detail doesn't bloat the overall saved file size, and I'm going to build a spacecraft and see what the plug-in does. I might use a different rendering engine, though. The detailing can be exported as OBJ files as well as anything one creates in Cinema 4D.
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My favourite.
BTW, If found my submarine!
The US government could have saved a fortune!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=po...PExs6D_yAFM%3A
Love the light bulb, Gary.
The spaceship reminds me of yesteryear.
Nice work on the retro spaceship.
This looks similar to your toy.
https://terrordaves.files.wordpress....cket20ship.jpg
Thanks Paul, and Thanks mwenz for liking the imp-candescent light bulb!
Here's a piece of trivia for you, Paul. Do you know who has the largest fleet on Earth?
Freakin' Disney! Between all the amusement parks with the safari rides, et al, they have more water capable ships than the Brit Navy or the US!
Crap. I'm glad you found your submarine!
Did it come with cardboard torpedoes with nuclear warheads, or was that an extra few pence and couldn't be delivered until they were invented?
:)
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I always wanted the submarine, but I never got one. :-(
I am not bitter and twisted as a result. Definitely not.
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This is the second in a series featuring the little chrome guy. I did this so long ago, I used a DOS program to generate the background trees. Neither Vue nor Bryce had been invented yet.
My Best,
Gary
Now, Paul—
Can I direct your attention to over here? Do you see this red light?
Excellent.
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Okay, Paul, you did not see a cardboard spaceship. What you saw was a pocket of gas trapped in the Earth's atmosphere.
When you go come, if you're asked where you have been, you will say that you've been out at the pub, that you had too much to drink and that you're going to bed.
When you wake up you will feel refreshed and remember none of tonight.
Nod if you understand.
Good.
..I told the therapist. I told her..
LOL
I'm proud to have been the Art Director for this new publication that is sprouting up in finer supermarket check-out aisles everywhere.
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I did the CMYK conversions myself. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Klowm.
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You are on a roll!
Did that cardboard ship fly? It looks like Flash Gordon's.
As for clowns, we have enough clowns on the public stage now. More are not needed.
You are the cornucopia of the creative art world.
I also post things from my 26 years as a computer artist. I'll look prolific no matter which way you slice it, Graham!
You are too kind, Sir.
Oh, and thanks for adopting TalkGraphics' guidelines...to stay non-political... and only talking about clowns on the public stage, without pointing out any political party or any political candidate.
Like Donald Trump.
I believe that I used trueSpace back in the early 1990s to create the lava lamp.
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I think I've used the model several times since.
My Best,
Gary
The lava lamp is quite brilliant ... I have Truespace 7.6 ... Not a clue how to use it. Now there another program that's absolutely not intuitive. Every time I get into it, I turn it off in disgust after 20 minutes fumbling about.
I miss my old lava lamp ... could really relax watching it.
What was odd, Keith, is that the Lava Lamp worked on a very simple principle: wax was suspended in a fluid, a heat source (a very inefficient light bulb) was sent up from the base, and blobs were created, self-illuminated by refraction (I think) and the colour of the wax.
I fought and fought with trueSpace, and never really grokked it, but it was the only affordable modeler that had raytracing for shadows at the time, so I put up with it until I'd saved all my pennies and dimes and bought Cinema 4D.
To make the lava lamp, I exported a profile from Xara as an Illustrator file and swept the profile (it's called lathing, like in pottery) around a hypothetical axis. The cord is another profile swept along a path, and the on/off switch is a simple extrude.
The lava itself is a collection of metaballs; most modelers today offer metaballs...I think Blender does. And then I animated the blobs for a short video.
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I've attached a Xara file of the profiles I used in case anyone wants to export the paths in Illustrator format and use them in a modeling program. To the best of my knowledge, only Illustrator files are supported in the modeling world...pity.
My Best,
Gary
Keith, in passing, the Lava Lamp was invented back in '63 and is still marketed by Mathmos, Poole, UK, down the road from me.
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Here's one for Mike; a different view of that rocking chair, plus two other novel ones.
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My Best,
Gary
If you don't have a bad back when you sit down, you probably will when you get up!
As was said to me once when I bought a handkerchief for the breast pocket of my (only) suit, "It's for showin', not blowin'."
The chairs are fancy, and architectural delight and absolutely not functional. :)
You couldn't afford them anyway, Keith: I drive a hard bargain, the currency is usually Friendly's Big Boat Sundaes.
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You could sell a few of those chairs. Remind me of the 50's and 60's furniture you would sometimes see.
mwenz is the carpenter among our little group on tg, Graham, and he's expressed interest in building the rocking chair, making it for his grand-daughter.
I asked him why don't I just send him the file and he can 3D print the chair?
He, in turn, recommended that I do something that I believe is physically impossible.
Go figure.
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This is a single-gag, manual, low fat joke:
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