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samhell · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:04 am

OMFG it is hard to believe how much you've managed to get out of sketchup with those human characters. Shocked

Looking very good!

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

samhell, thanks! Smile

How's Genesis coming along?
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Few more notes (while I'm here):

Think I spoke too soon about Blender. The 2.61 interface is still bewildering to
me (more sophisticated lighting is still out of reach)...

Still liking Sketchup's cartoony quality, though would need an army to produce
all the models/detail - or I'll do it myself. Twisted Evil

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Re story, just mentioned to a buddy (yesterday): "All the original ideas that I
thought were futuristic, most of them are close to reality already. Will have to
think again." So I'm thinking again. Smile

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Another recent thought/development (from last year; helps make sense of
my choices/direction): would like the 'sets' to be available to anyone, so
they can expand the story or adapt it to their own needs. Hence Sketchup...
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120116 - Speaking of futuristic:

Ten top predictions for life 100 years from now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16536598
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120124 - Don't want to flood The Movie Thread with more Thatcher stuff so will
stick it here - all the segments in a single page (YT playlists are unrealistic):

Christopher Hitchens and Richard Critchfield on Britain and the United States (1990)
http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/christopher-hitchens-and-richard.html
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120129 - A tour of Melbourne street art
http://www.bbc.com/travel/slideshow/20120119-a-tour-of-melbourne-street-art

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Frogback redesign...

whom · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:39 pm

durgl, nice to see you still going strong, nice stuff as usual. Have
you tried the latest blender? Cycles is pretty handy actually, I still don't like the result of the samples though....but it will probably gonna come along.

....On another note btw, Bmesh is gonna be added in the next build. Possible with un-even polygons so that way you can shape and build how you want, we talked about it in the 3d thread if you remember?
keep up. Smile

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

thanks, still going strong yep, tho not posting here atm (no particular reason)

installed 2.61 yeah but still greek to me Razz

otoh discovered Sculptris models can be imported into Sketchup via
Blender/.3ds export, thus negating my interest in making Sketchup 'do tricks'
(see upthread)...

vaguely recall Bmesh tho again the Blender interface stands in the way

we'll see where it goes from here - new activity in the 3d thread ic, will check it
out Smile

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Discovery draft, cross-post from the 3D thread
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?p=429224#429224

Wanted to avoid the 'awe the barbarian' religious standard (or the usual tech
meets 'primitive' culture) in the story - another change of plan.

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Old one re religion/death cult...

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Cross posted from The 3D Thread

Starting to get fluent in Sculptris and maybe anatomy (some day soon?).
Quick 'character' sketch for the "death cult" (above). Wasn't thinking of
Hitchcock (and now I see it isn't really a likness) but that might be fun (to
have him in charge of the (terrestrial) bad guys).

Onward. Smile

whom · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:46 am

Is that a mask, death cult thingy above? Impressive works in here durgldeep, keep going. Very Happy

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Thanks again, whom. That's a mask above, yeah; one possible example of a
whole culture that I've barely touched. Shocked

Reminds me, I should revisit that island model (SC version), see what
nightmare state I left it in... Very Happy

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Cross-posted from The 3D Thread.

More re the "death cult": in Kernis the 'sacred mountain' is heaped with the
bones of human sacrifices. Easy to write, not so easy to paint or model, heh.
*Knowing* what bones look like is much better than fudging it (the other
reason for doing this). Smile

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Continued here:
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=43304

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

the end

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

Have a post-ending for this already (ie. another beginning...); will see what's left here
that's worth bothering with... Smile

Definitely needed practice closing/ending stuff (alt+end was useful, yep)...
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=43585

Otherwise, wondering what's happening for Sijun's twentieth (fast approaching...)... Smile

Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:25 pm:

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

In minutes and each one is a fingerprint...

Island about 1k length. Four colours (can do eight +, pretty sure). Love that surf... Smile

Uh, geothermal whatsamajigger (entrance)...
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Afterthought: samhell's comment 'still stuck in sketchup' - might not be such a bad place
to be? Smile

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

1. Sculptris method (one sphere extruded through another)
2. 'plate' method, two colours, wip... (looks a lot like a certain film intro?)

Fall back to moon size (3500 km wide v 12000 km), phew...

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

New story works, just can't write/draw/show it to anyone. Hmmmm... Smile

Tzan · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:56 am

Hmmm...

durgldeep · member Member # Joined: 14 Sep 2001 Posts: 859

A secure OS would help, sigh