Can we be friends?

[pfrancke]

An old photo from the 60s that we tried to sell to National Geographic of grandmother bathing in the river.

[Henry Blewer]

I think you went to the wrong planet's National Geographic.
Very cool image. It reminds me of Piers Antony's book Macroscope.

[pfrancke]

Watch where you step!!  some of those NWDA rocks are sharp.

njeneb - I remember reading that book - must be almost 40 years ago...  It was one of his absolute classics in my opinion, I never cared for the magic kingdom stuff, but Piers Antony is a great author.

[Henry Blewer]

I just found his writing to be fun. I like bad jokes, puns, and put downs (good natured put downs). So I did like the Zanth stuff.

The second image seems sad, like finding a fish left on land after a flood. Nice job.

[pfrancke]

Argggg....  "sad dead fish" - the "can we be friends" was all about making ugly scary monsters that were intended to produce responses like "hell no, we can't be friends".  And you tell me that it looks like a dead fish.  Back to the drawing board with me!! 

The Zanth stuff was too punny.  Did he ever do more serious sci-fi or fantasy again?  I kept trying the Zanth stuff and kept getting mad that they didn't compare to Macroscope.

[Henry Blewer]

HUH? Your picture touched me actually. I always feel bad about living things which don't live their full lives, happy as possible. That's what I was trying to say. It's a great pic. If you were trying to scare me, Frankenstien's monster. I had nightmares as a kid about him. He still creeps me out. Other undead or monters don't bother me.

[pfrancke]

Ok, Njeneb, I brought him back to life.  I made him green and white and shiny to be like Shelly's monster.  I would have put a bolt in his forehead, but I couldn't find his forehead.

My wife walked by and said, "what is that?  Why don't you make nice sunsets or something?"  So thinking very quickly, (like I have to around her), I said "this is a whipper snapper.  It's favorite food is spiders, but it will also eat small rodents and baby birds".   Amazing though how people need for something to "be" something.

[Henry Blewer]

This render looks really cool. The land looks very good and the shiny skin really helps with the creatures ickyness. I love the story you told your wife. Good quick thinking.

[pfrancke]

Question for you guys...  These xenodream objects are nothing but a mesh.  The obj file comes with a mtl file that just contains:

newmtl VoxMtl
Ns 100.000
d 1.00000
illum 2
Kd 1.00000 1.00000 1.00000
Ka 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
Ks 1.00000 1.00000 1.00000
Ke 0.00000e+0 0.00000e+0 0.00000e+0

So my question is, what is the recommended strategy/software to get the object to have "multiple discrete surfaces"?.  Right now, I have one surface and of course any thing I do with it in TG gets applied to the whole monster.  What are your thoughts about what kind of workflow one can best use to improve on that - knowing that I am not a modeler and probably never will be? 

[Seth]

funny
nice ground

[Volker Harun]

I have the same shading problem using exported objects of groboto ... they even lack the mtl-file.
Today I run a test with blender to shade the model ...

I like that Jelly-Beast most

[Henry Blewer]

It would be great to use the weight paint or the new UV painting modes available in Blender for the objects material. The new UV paint is quite good!

[pfrancke]

I'm gonna have to figure out more about objects!!

Curtains...

[FrankB]

Very cool. All these renders.