Here’s tonight’s installment on the Girl Genius slaver wasp… last night’s cut is here.
Keep in mind:
- That up there takes serious effort
- It is not rendered in Blender3D yet – what you see there is the renderer in My Favorite Modeling Software (MFMS) – it is nice but not the final product
- The “white” gauge is not white per-se, it is saturated by the renderer’s light that is pretty much behind the scene camera. I don’t care about it enough to change it at the moment
- It is too shiny – I will add dirt and bump-maps to it
- It has no lights yet – those require lamps and radiosity
- It has no gauge decals yet – that might be tricky for me
So – thoughts? I’m not fishing for compliments – I’m asking for input – there is a difference.
I will say this – this exercise has dramatically increased my respect for the Prof’s Foglio and Cheyenne in their work on GG. It was high to begin with but this somehow amplifies it.
Lemur King's Folly 
*James Earl Jones Voice*
Impressive…most impressive.
what are you going to do with it when you finish modeling?
Hiya HJ –
There isn’t a lot one can do with it since it is the Foglio’s intellectual property. I have done it for the challenge of it and as far as I am concerned, if they were to say “We don’t like it, destroy it”,I would do it without argument.
I would rather hope that they would say “Hey, that is really nice!” but there is always the chance they would not like it.
If you mean rendering, then I plan on applying images, textures, dirt maps, bump maps, etc. and rendering it with radiosity and full lamp/light sources, sort of like the needle and bottle of STFU I did for SOYLENT.
just wondered if you were going to make a real model of it. a friend and i used to produce prototype models for manufacture.
Well, I would if Foglio said “Hey, let’s make a bunch through Shapeway or some such place”. But no plans otherwise.
What type of protomodels did you do, if I can ask? And with what package?
we built our own system using rhino3d to make the image, then used a slicing program we had made for us to break it into 4 mil slices.
used a flatbed cutter and sheets of contact paper to make each slice and built an indexer to position each slice.
we could produce a model with about a 1 mil tolerance from written specs to send to a machine shop or to make molds for plastic lens covers.
mostly small accessories for a local motorcycle shop.
i think the largest model we made was about 3x4x2.
I have no input, since you pretty much covered everything you are planning on doing to it.
Ditto Aggie’s comment. Looks great so far!