Wacky Modelling ~ In Carrara ~
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Alan must be with Alexander and Alexandra, maybe negotiating their next gig.
Josie is passed out leaning against the drums. Melody is on Spaceghost's lap. Valerie is in a chair by the scifi drink menu. Jace is offering a ring to Judy. Jan is lying across the back of one of the TMNT. The TMNT and Elroy are passed out on the floor. The spaceghost teen foce monkey chaacter is sprinting across the back of the room, and the Jetson's maid is trying to clean up.
Looking good Stezza and Diomede !!!!!!
Some wacky mobiles in this lot.
http://www.classiccarweekly.net/2012/12/10/microcar-mondays-pt-i/
https://classiccarweekly.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/microcar-mondays-pt-ii/
https://classiccarweekly.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/microcars-for-christmas/
https://classiccarweekly.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/microcar-mondays-part-iv/
https://classiccarweekly.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/microcar-mondays-pt-v/
https://classiccarweekly.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/microcar-mondays-part-vi/
http://www.classiccarweekly.net/2013/02/04/microcar-mondays-part-vii/
https://classiccarweekly.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/microcar-mondays-pt-viii/
https://blog.rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/BW13/The-Bruce-Weiner-Microcar-Museum/lots/r123-1966-peel-trident/292861
https://blog.rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/BW13/The-Bruce-Weiner-Microcar-Museum/lots/r260-1964-lightburn-zeta-sports/292862
https://www.rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/BW13/The-Bruce-Weiner-Microcar-Museum/lots/r197-1951-kover/292890
http://www.microcarmuseum.com/virtualtour.html
Those really are wacky cars.
lol
I think we have too much fun with Carrara
wow.. that lightburn zeta is really wacky!!
Today I modeled Gumby & Pokey
again......... boned them both as well..
Also recieved my Beanie 4 Brain Cancer today before the big chill hits us tomorrow..
#CarriesBeanies4BrainCancer
Those on twitter can check it out.
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woahh... a few too many cornettos and chips by the looks of it!
.... and I thought in the family way
the mind boggles
Another wacky vehicle.
This is still a work in progress. More detail to add inside the cockpit, and I still have to work on the undercarriage.
Seems like I've been working on this forever. I'll never match Stezza's modeling speed.
My biggest problem is reference images. It seems that the animators can't decide on what details to draw from scene to scene. So it's not possible to model a perfectly accurate representation.
Rick's flying car.
@de3an that's an awesome model.. I've never heard of Rick and Morty... my kids have all grown up and my grandchildren are watching Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol ... not at the next level yet lol
Thanks Stezza.
"Rick and Morty" is definitely not a children's cartoon. It airs during the Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" time slot. Don't know if you guys have that down-under.
It's hard to describe. It's not quite like any other program I've watched. Kind of a cross between Back to the Future and Doctor Who, but ten times crazier and politically incorrect. (but involves inter-dimensional travel rather than time travel.) We're currently in the looooong wait between season 3 and (hopefully) season 4 of the series.
If you want to see just how crazy the series is, try to find the "Pickle Rick" episode. (The only thing you need to know going in, is that Rick is a super scientist/genius.)
I bought both of these models when they were on sale, many, many, years ago. Have you seen them, and are they still in the store all these years later? I bought them because I am a big fan of the old 1930 and 1940s theater serials of Flash Gordon, one of the serials with the great opening music by Franz Liszt.
Rocket Ship Retro Style
http://posercontent.com/vehicles-for-poser/rocket-ship-retro-style
Authors: KuroKuma, DAZ Originals
Rocketship Mongo
http://posercontent.com/vehicles-for-daz-studio-and-poser/rocketship-mongo
Authors: KuroKuma, DAZ Originals
Yes, I have both and they take me back to the early TV SciFi shows. They are in my product library, but no link to "View Product Store Page", so apparently no longer for sale at DAZ. Here is a 3 minute animation I did with one of them (shows up ~1:11):
Steve K ,
During a period in my later teens, between 16 and 19, I made a few "arty" Super 8 films with friends. No home computers in those days, and no digital cameras. Each roll of Super 8 film lasted only a few minutes, was not cheap, and had to be developed which took a week.
How long did it take you to make the animation you posted, from start to finish? Does it require a very high-end home computer, or can an animation such as yours be created these days in a modest desktop Graphics Intensive computer say in the 700 hundred to 900 dollar range?
You can certainly use a fairly modest computer to do animation these days and Carrara is a great tool to do it with. I have done commercial animation work on my laptop.
By today's standards my modest desktop computer is very modest so it's basically the rendering time that would present some problems I would assume. My older brother was planning to help me out with a newer, faster, desktop computer but his bank account was just robbed by computer hackers so that is out.
Started on my next wacky model today with a cylinder.... let's see where I end up!
I am creating a new base claymation figure for myself. It is to replace Don Coyote as my Rankin Bass toon style figure. My whole approach will change. Instead of toon or cell shaded filters I plan to go for something similar to stop motion.
will we see a Jimminy Cricket?
got this far on my cylinder today......
yabbadabbadoo thats good Stez
thanks Wendy
I totally crashed Carrara and the file when I boned him!
Luckily I had a pre-boned backup mesh a few steps back to retrieve and try again... dunno why it crashed and totally wasted the file though
Stezza - a great Fred!
Yabba Dabba Dooooo! Tremendous job. Sorry about the crash.
Willlma
they had a magic martian guest star iirc
Apparently Steven Spielberg was also a big 8mm movie creator in his youth, leading much later to the movie "Super 8", which I enjoyed a lot. Spielberg produced and J.J. Abrams directed, 7.0 at IMDB. My only live action video started with digital cameras with video features. I still enjoy it, but its hard to find something to shoot for a short (~5 minutes). One I enjoyed doing was "East Texas Dirt Track":
Usually they take 2 - 3 weeks, off and on. For years I've been buying fairly high spec machines since animation is my main hobby. Core i7, fairly good graphics card. So I dunno about lower spec machines, I'll defer to PhilW's comment above. I generally get about 5-10 seconds per frame using fairly simple setups, with no indirect lighting or similar. A lot of the time is spent on the story, blocking, testing camera angles, sound effects, music, post production FX e.g. Particle Illusion, etc., not just animation rendering. For me, its an immersive hobby that can keep me up late when it gets interesting.
Steve K,
Does the Core i7 have 8 cores. My computer has only 6 cores and 10 or 12 Ram, an AMD graphics card, and 3 Gig herzt. That is probably not very good for animation.
What is amazing about the digital cameras of the last 15 years, or so, is the easy ability to get great looking imagery without having to fumble about with a bunch of controls as with the old 35 millimeter cameras, and Super 8 home movie cameras. I remember what a chore it was to fiddle with home 35 millimeter camera controls in the hope of getting the right exposure settings, and half the time the developed pictures were too dark, or too light, maybe a bit blurry, etc., and you had to get the pictures developed.
I assume you didn't need fancy light setups for your East Texas digital film, which would have been the case with Super 8 which was impossible to use at night without elaborate lighting lamps. The clarity, and color, of your film is amazing. I have a good digital camera and except for rare occasions I just shoot a picture and it looks fine, and I can see it instantly and not have to wait for a week to get it developed, and no annoying fiddling with bottons and knobs.
I almost went to film school, but that is another story ... Flash Speilberg, ha, hah, maybe in an alternate universe .... but then again maybe Flash Wood, as in Ed Wood maker of Plan 9 From Outer Space
Yes, it show eight cores in Windows Task Manager, but I think its multi-threaded ... hardware is not my long suit.
Correct, I just pointed it and hit "record". Thanks for the kind words, but I give credit to the Canon Powershot camera with its 35x Zoom that is dead quiet on the sound recording.
My favorite Spielberg movie is probably still "Jaws", but I get a big kick out of Ed Wood films. Roger Ebert in his review of the movie "Ed Wood" (1994, 7.9 at IMDB): "Edward D. Wood Jr. must have been the Will Rogers of filmmaking: He never directed a shot he didn't like. It takes a special weird genius to be voted the Worst Director of All Time, a title that Wood has earned by acclamation. He was so in love with every frame of every scene of every film he shot that he was blind to hilarious blunders, stumbling ineptitude, and acting so bad that it achieved a kind of grandeur. But badness alone would not have been enough to make him a legend; it was his love of film, sneaking through, that pushes him over the top."
Stezza, 'Started on my next wacky model today with a cylinder.... let's see where I end up!"
How about "The Master Cylinder" from the old Felix the Cat cartoons. You could probably make my Cryll character model with one sphere in an hour, but I am just learning so it's mostly learning what not to do, as well as what to do, to create a character in my case.
Your Fred Flinstone is very good.
How about using a "cone" to start with, and I attached a classic cone monster from the fabulous 50s as inspiration for you.
thanks everyone
@FlashGarcia the cone monster would be a good starting point for you... go for it.. nothing ventured nothing gained..
I boned Fred but haven't weight painted him ... yuk..... rrrrrrrrrrr
but today I did model Fred's Dino Crane
quick render with postwork