QUIRKY, HUMOROUS, FAST AND FURIOUS: Fabulous Prizes! WIP Thread:

Headwax

that's a shame it was looking like a good start Evil.

thanks for letting us know what you are upto. : )

Varsel

evilproducer said:

Varsel said:

Just to show... I'm working on something... that is exploring an idea...
The car started from the object browser, but has been a little bit modified...

Nice job! My twin brother and I kit-bashed a physical model car with a fighter jet at one point. Came out way cool! Now I wanna try doing that in Carrara.

beautiful to see what comes out of the minds of men and women : ) when given a refined set of tools, a few random objects and an abstract concept to illustrate. do you have that junkyard challenge show "Crapheap"? er I mean "scrapheap"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169491/ I've watched it twice in the past, amazing what people come up with. It's the Boffins versus the Brawn usually. No guesses who wins : ) good to see a mix of both here : )
These two started my brain to work. I had a vague idea about what to do, and this made me clarify my vision an idea.
So some more WIP. This is all the cars from Mesh Models in the object browser.

Headwax

classic scene! It's like the day the Martians bombed LA, everybody trying to get outta town - on both sides of the highway no less

Varsel

head wax said:

classic scene! It's like the day the Martians bombed LA, everybody trying to get outta town - on both sides of the highway no less

Well you know, there is always somebody that just has to go closer to watch.....

Headwax

Varsel said:

head wax said:

classic scene! It's like the day the Martians bombed LA, everybody trying to get outta town - on both sides of the highway no less

Well you know, there is always somebody that just has to go closer to watch.....

heh, yes curiousity killed more than the cat

here's a start on a carrara landscape
, all the objects are mesh objects, used magnets thanks to andy and 00seven's hints, the shale like rocks on the ground on the right and left periphery are a rock with an explosion modifier, I combined a few rock textures and baked them, then used the results as a displacement map
the floating rocks are err accidental :)

it's the start of a star wars race thing, maybe podracing
like this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dcqnEFIw3A

WendyLuvsCatz

Ok, I have a problem
starting to get a bit late for my entry, a want to do several people
Smoothing or subdivision in vertex room creates holes WTF?
but when I export my skinned posed mesh I can do both to reimported one once but it looks worse?
a second smoothing adds holes again

Dartanbeck

Maybe try "Untriangulating" first, then apply smoothing?

Dartanbeck

No - Wait!
Select all - Model > 'smooth edges' > "All"

Dartanbeck

Wow! Stuff going on, eh?
Head Wax: Inspired by "The Great Escape", perhaps? Ever see that? That's what that motorcycle scene reminds me of - those older 70's dirt bikes! Gotta love 'em!
Wendy: Getting ready for some Rock n' Roll Action?!!!
Varsel... wow! Reminds me of that short time I've lived in Chicago. Good thing I was raised in the north woods - learned at a young age how to sail a car through the air - and land it!

Head Wax: That's really cool! Did you show those pillars to Rhiana? She's looking for just such thingies! Very cool, all!

WendyLuvsCatz

No matter what I do I get holes

if I export her to iClone 3DXchange5 and weld mesh and apply smoothing she reexports beautifully smoothed and keeps her UV mapping
why can't I do this in Carrara?

(iClone animation with same mesh, hair prop, yes I rigged the neck poorly)

Dartanbeck

wendy♥catz said:

why can't I do this in Carrara?

because spending all that time with the clones has clouded your vision to the dark side of the force. The corruption is likely beginning to cause a slight discomfort to your eyes from the back sides of them - am I right? Eventually you won't be able to leave your house without a battery pack that can run a graphics accelerator of at least a few GB of GDR RAM and at first, a few hundred Cuda Cores or their equivalent. Some cases require that you also need to have an overclocked multicore processor onboard. All of the case eventually require such things unless proper care is received - which often entails weeks of sleepless nights jamming out on Carrara, and Carrara alone. Some experts claim that during this period, other DAZ3D applications can be used without suffering relapse. Others disagree and demand a strict regime of Carrara scene building, model manipulation, shader design, and... ultimately... you guessed it... rendering. And the really bad cases even have to use global illumination at really high settings, with full indirect lighting and caustics enabled! Be careful, young one! The dark side is not a path to tread lightly!

Dartanbeck

Curious: Have you tried checking to see if the edges are set to 'creased'? That's what it looks like to me - and would have a possible motive for creating smoothing holes. Sorry I'm not more help. Where the h. e. double toothpicks is 3dage when you need him?

WendyLuvsCatz

Dartanbeck said:

Curious: Have you tried checking to see if the edges are set to 'creased'? That's what it looks like to me - and would have a possible motive for creating smoothing holes. Sorry I'm not more help. Where the h. e. double toothpicks is 3dage when you need him?

I just lost a long reply when my android decided to disconect from my wifi modem
the short answer is
I often need to fix Carrara mesh in other programs
mostly just Daz studio
sometimes Hex, Blender, iClone or Poser.
but
due to limitations of this comp trying to do it all in Carrara.

those browser objects pretty poorly made in many ways
prob better to just create a mesh from scratch if I can.

Headwax

thanks Dart : )

Wendy try this, export woman2obj
reimport as a facetted mesh (play with smoothing values in this import window)
then in carrar open in the mesh room
you will be asked if you want to convert it
convert to mesh
then smooth edges and smooth as you normally would
works for me

nice animation

Dartanbeck

head wax said:

thanks Dart : )

Wendy try this, export woman2obj
reimport as a facetted mesh (play with smoothing values in this import window)
then in carrar open in the mesh room
you will be asked if you want to convert it
convert to mesh
then smooth edges and smooth as you normally would
works for me

nice animation

See? Why can't I just talk efficiently like that? lol!!!
That's all I've been trying to say - well... except when I went off on my sci fi tangent about how iClone was warping our girl's brain to the dark side... I sure hope she heeds my advice on that - Not!

Not sure if I told you this less than a million times yet, Wendy... I really love your iClone animations - especially the ones with singing involved - so... yeah... all of them!

WendyLuvsCatz

thanks Headwax (Andrew) that worked!
and thanks Dart for trying

WendyLuvsCatz

more Wendy weirdness

Headwax

heh, that is really very scary : )!!! , works great actually!
thanks for the destructions too

Dartanbeck

Wendy girl...
you so R O C K ! ! !
Love it when you show us stuff like this! Love it!

Varsel

This one is moving along nicely........

Still a few bits to add..

Headwax

Varsel said:

This one is moving along nicely........

Still a few bits to add..

moving along more than nicely : )

Headwax

bit more work on this one, everything modeled in carrara except used microphone and satellite dish from objects folder

WendyLuvsCatz

awesome Andrew
Gwendolyn agrees

Dartanbeck

Rock On, All! Great stuff - and a really nifty pun from the Vars! Excellent stuff! Very excellent!

WendyLuvsCatz

it's hotting up here alright!
mine just getting scarier!

Dartanbeck

Very nice, Wendy.

Headwax

Heh, thanks Dartanbeck and Gwendoline err I mean Wendy : ) Gwendoline is pretty scary. I like how she has had a total vitrectomy : )
Hope we get some more WIP's here eh?
Maybe we are being kept in suspense : )

Antara

head wax said:

bit more work on this one, everything modeled in carrara except used microphone and satellite dish from objects folder

Wow! That's very impressive.
Now I really want to know what did you do to the sky to make it look like that?!
Also, are the engine-burn effects done in post, or are they also part of the scene?

Dartanbeck

I am going to guess that those engine burns are made with fire. Am I right? I agree with all of that. Very exciting image - I'd like to know more! :)

I hope to get more done - but it's hard to get Carrara open right now. Too gone by the time I get home.

Headwax

thanks Antara and Dartanbeck : )

Ahh I will post the before post pic this afternoon, I forgot to do that!

The sky.... well I used a pic of a nice mauve sunset I took a while ago and put that in the backdrop (?) and tiled it - you can see where it mirrors itself up top left - looks weirdly three dee.

I used carrara sun and realistic sky as well. Then I dropped a whole lot of clouds in at 'ground level" in a line going off into the distance - to see what would happen. Some of the smoke things are done in post, like the smoke trail going up into the sky.

The engine burn is carrara fire times 2 as Dartanbeck suspected. There is cloud in there as well near the engines. I also put a bulb near the engines with a fire map in the texture area of the bulb. The blurriness near the engine is done in post to hide the lousy mesh I made : )

If I get a chance I will put in mickey and or the robot somewhere in the landscape - I tried Mickey last night but he looked 'silly" - surprise! :)

cheers from oz : )

PS the real surprise for me was that shale on the ground, It's just a boulder with an explosion modifier. Beats modelling all those different bits!