Too Many Pens
Small project to familiarize myself with Modo’s instance and particle systems.
Small project to familiarize myself with Modo’s instance and particle systems.
When I first started the Diervek project back around 06/07 I used Live-Journal to host my work. Seeing how that work is largely dead to the world on those servers I’ve been wanting to post some of the more interesting images here. So what you see below are mostly ink drawings modified in Photoshop. At the time these were made I was working heavily in 3D design at my day job, so in my spare time I drew a lot in ink and experimented in mediums other than 3D.
This is an old project that I have been meaning to repost here in a full collection. Back around 2007 I built a giant 16 FT mono-pod to use with a SLR digital Canon Rebel camera. I built the mono pod using PVC tubing reinforced with 4 FT wooden dowel sections for flexible reinforcement, all in all it cost about $15.00 to build. Durring 2007 & 08 I took it around Boston and used it for the photos you see below.
Testing Zbrush edge loops for hard surface modeling and seeing how well they transfer to modo. It does a fine job at cutting irregular shapes although the poly count is still somewhat high
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Lost control of my Phantom quad copter sending it to a ridiculous height and it took this photo.
Wanted to play around with light and color this Saturday.
As of late I have been tooling around with Sculptris Alpha 6 and ZBrush on the side. Here is something I have whipped up then rendered in modo. Sculptris is truly an amazing program it dynamically adds polygons as you model and it’s insanely easy to pick up and use. I made this cowboy/minotaur after three or so hours of using Sculptris for the first time.
I wanted to see how long it would take me to model and texture something random. So I grabbed whatever I could snag on the desk to the left of me without looking. An unused Honey Mustard Sauce pack was what I happened to pick up. After 48 minutes I felt I had something that could pass as useful. My end result is far from perfect but very useful for a prop for a future project. The render here that you see took about 20 minutes I did not include that in my time because that is dependent on computer hardware.
Panoramic high angle photo of the Mechanics Corral area of Fort Union taken with an 18′ giant monopod.
Panoramic photo at a normal angle of the same area.
You can find Fort Union north of Las Vegas NM off of I-25
Old camera tracking telescope called The IGOR (“eye-gore”) it was used to recorded experiments at high speed up to 100 miles away. Active from 1951 to 1965
If you are ever in the White Sands area check out the rocket park museum.
Wide angle and high wide angle photos from the Salinas Pueblo Missions Ruins.
Here is the same structure from Gran Quivira as above from a higher wide angle shot.
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