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The Way It Was
Not Done
Take one wolf and
chop its head off - you can discard the rest. Take the head to a
very good taxadermist before it goes off. While he works on it go
and obtain a large hour glass. Pay the taxadermist and fix the wolf's
head into the hourglass. (Notice how I skip details!) Set the model
up somewhere in a battery of lights and play for hours until you
have the optimum angle and best lighting illuminating the object.
Take a photo - preferably digital or you will need to use a scanner
- and shove the result on the web page!
The Way It Was
Done
Open Poser
and load the New Black Wolf and the hourglass prop - see 'credits' below. Open
hierarchy window and make all of the wolf invisible from below the neck. pose
the wolf head until you are happy with how it looks and then arrange it in the
hourglass - you will have to play with scale settings here. Far less complicated
to change the size of the hourglass! When the combination is satisfactory, parent
the horglass to the wolf head. Now for the longest and trickiest part. Adjust
material settings on the glass and sand in the hourglass AND arrange lights.
Some hours later - if satisfied - render the image. The result is a logo for
Yorath.
Notice the similarities
in the methods and then tell me that current methods of 3d rendering
are not instinctive!
CREDITS
Credits are important!
Artists make the images we look at and enjoy but, especially in
the computer 3d art arena, other artists have made the models we
use. In some cases all the image creator has done is combine the
works of others. See my Wonder Woman over New York as an example.
An unknown photographer provided the background image, a modeller
made Wonder Woman and another guy had worked out the pose used.
The figures, models, morphs, poses and so on are either downloaded
for free or bought and most of them have the condition that the
artist who created them gets a mention if they are used. Sadly I
lost some of the information to fully credit some folk as well as
some email links, following a hard disc crash. If you can help here
please email me so I can update!
As an example here
are the credits for my Logo:
Yorath Logo an image created
by Yorath aka Dave Lawrence. The model was made in Poser 4.0 using an hourglass
model by Fishheid and the Black Wolf by Wolfie.
With each picture
in my galleries will be a Credits link and probably a Story link.
There might even be a How To link! Credits will acknowledge other
peoples' contribution(s) to the image, Story will be something about
the image and How To will have something about the methods used
in producing the image. Some I will call Newbie How To and the info
will be obvious to most but may be helpful to newbies. These links
are mainly with the thumnails of the picture.
LINKS AND RESOURCES
It is my intention
to provide a series of links to resource sites, some are on the
left of this page. I also hope to provide some downloads later on
as resources for others to use. The Freebies links on the left simply
provide links to where you can download these resources. These are
freely given by their creators who should be credited and thanked.
I often use these and recommend them.
I hope to get a series
of newbies pages on the site with a collection of things that most
folk just take for granted. All these terms like 'mesh' and 'geometries'
along with confusions about objects, props, posable props and poser
ready props all gets rather confusing. These pages hope to sort
this out.
FRIENDS, FELLOWS
AND ADVICE
A while ago I joined the 3d-cc
(3d comic collective). A group of people who all have the common interest of
producing or using figures of comic heroes to create images, comics or movies,
mainly through Poser. I have learned a tremendous amount and made not a few
internet friends through this group. The snap on the left features myself, Doug
and Graham (UK, USA and Eire respectively) when we got together in London in
Autumn 2001.
It may surprise some
to know that I do have other friends as well and some of these have
sites which could well be worth visiting. I am developing two pages
of links to these sites. One is a boring series of lists and the
other a 3d generated image with hot spots. I am currently gathering
resources for the second. The image will display a series of models
that should somehow represent the person or what they do. A commercial
page of this type, for example, might show a well known product
that links to the manufacturer's site. By
the way, if you or your product is displayed on the list-of-links
page and you want to provide a 'banner advert' to use instead. Send
it to me. I make no promises but I will probably use it. If not
I will at least mail you back telling you why! just one thing! No
moving images - they really annoy me!
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