Stop and Watch

Done entirely in Xara. Approximate time, 6 hours, 14 minutes, 3.6 seconds. I timed it with my prop.

Gary

Gary Priester

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Done entirely in Xara. Approximate time, 6 hours, 14 minutes, 3.6 seconds. I timed it with my prop.

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Rarely So Humble...

Hi Gary,

Great looking stopwatch.

Soquili [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Lovely, lovely. You're snapping at my heels, Gary! :-)


K

PS: But do you *really* have seven jewels? Ouch . . .

Gary, I love the watch, I'm loving all the chrome effects going on around here! Very nice

Steve Newport

I can see why you are the big dog around here
(as apposed to a skinned cat).
Excellent work

I posted a "me-too" render in the 3D forum.

http://talkgraphics.infopop.net/1/Op...1&m=5741966902

It was done in the Carrara beta, but I did do all the bump-maps and clock face (all vectors) in CorelDraw. Even the hands where drawn in Corel and imported into Carrara as ai profiles.
I don't remember how long it took because it does not keep vary good time.

wayne K
Guam USA

Stunning image Gary, but of course the only accurate way to tell the time is with Eccles piece of paper. Using this timepiece, it took me exactly 37 years and 3.6 seconds to complete the drawing. Or was that 3.6 years and 37 seconds - I may have been holding the paper upside down.

For the benefit of anyone out there who is not a Goon fan here are the immortal lines:

BlueBottle: What time is it, Eccles?
Eccles: Just a minute I've got it written down here on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
BlueBottle: Oh! Then why do you carry it around with you, Eccles?
Eccles: Well, if anyone asks me the time, I can show it to them.
BlueBottle: Wait a minute Eccles, my good man.
Eccles: What is it, fellow?
BlueBottle: It's written on this bit of paper, what is 8 o'clock is written.
Eccles: I know that my good fellow. That's right. When I asked the fellow to write it down it was 8 o'clock.
BlueBottle: Well then, supposing when someone asks you the time it isn't 8 o'clock
Eccles: Well then I don't show it to them.
BlueBottle: Oh. Well how do you know when it's 8 o'clock?
Eccles: O've got it written down on a piece of paper!
BlueBottle: Ooh, I wish I could afford a piece of paper with the time written on it. Here, Eccles?
Eccles: Yeah?
BlueBottle: Let me hold that piece of paper to my ear, would you? 'Ere! This piece of paper ain't going?
Eccles: What! I've been sold a forgery!
BlueBottle: No wonder it stopped at 8 o'clock.
Eccles: Oh, dear.
BlueBottle: You should get one of them things my Grandad's got.
Eccles: Oh?
BlueBottle: His firm gave it to him when he retired.
Eccles: Oh.
BlueBottle: It's one of them things, what it is, that wakes you up at 8 o'clock boils the kettle and pours a cup of tea!
Eccles: Oh, yeah, what's it called?
BlueBottle: My Grandma.
Eccles: Oh. Ah, wait a minute. How does she know when it's 8 o'clock.
BlueBottle: She's got it written down on a piece of paper!

Brian

Wayne

I love your watch. It is so elegant and the lighting is so dramatic.

One thing, though, if you're going to hang around these parts, you're going to have to drop that code-bloated drawing application you are using and learn to enjoy the speed and elegant power of Xara X. Once you do there is no looking back :-)

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> PS: But do you *really* have seven jewels? Ouch . . . <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think that's what it said. By the time I got to the small text, my eyes were so shot, I couldn't even see the text with my magnifier.

Gary

Gary Priester

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[This message was edited by Gary W. Priester on May 11, 2001 at 06:14.]

Speaking of the drawing application from Ottawa, I modified the tick marks on the illustration. One of DRAW's better features, shared by Illustrator and FreeHand (are you listening Mark, and company?) is the Transform dialog in which you can designate a percentage of rotation and then apply it to a copy or duplicate. It made creating the tick marks a breeze and the tick marks are now accurate, they weren't before due to operator error.

Gary

Gary Priester

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.. I don't know if the Goons humour crosses the Atlantic but you "deaded me"...
Egg