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.
*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!