gamma
03-19-2004, 05:27 AM
Kelly Ray has entered the Machineflesh 3D Challenge.
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gamma
03-19-2004, 06:30 AM
Tools: Blender, GIMP, tablet, computer.
Thoughts: I'd say that it's going to be hard to come up with something really original for this, but then, even that's been said already.
I'll probably add something (better) here later. I had whole paragraphs flowing out of my finger tips until I saw the blank text box waiting...
Thoughts: I'd say that it's going to be hard to come up with something really original for this, but then, even that's been said already.
I'll probably add something (better) here later. I had whole paragraphs flowing out of my finger tips until I saw the blank text box waiting...
gamma
03-19-2004, 07:08 AM
OK, I looked through the WIPs so far, and it seems like most people are going with, well, humans. This would put me at a huge disadvantage (I cannot draw/model a human to save my life) BUT... a chance post sent me off onto a new line of thought. Trees. Trees need machines more then humans do, by a long shot. They don't even have our nice bendy fingers. And they can't move. And, gee, I can model trees. AND it's not already been done a million times, even the post that mentioned it was just joking. "Or dont make it a human....make it an animal.....or alien...or a tree. OK-Maybe not a tree...." ( http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=130788 ) But, maybe not a tree. Maybe a shrub. Or a flower.
Current inspirations:
Alan Dean Foster's "Sentanced To Prism", which describes lots of organic-mechanical plantanimalthings, specifically ones that have crystals... Also his "Midworld", which describes a lovely, shiny plant with sharp metal edges, useful for discouraging browsing animals.
"The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks", can't remember the author, describes plants which are able to move their vines... their pots are attached to skateboards and the plants can then roll themselves around.
Current inspirations:
Alan Dean Foster's "Sentanced To Prism", which describes lots of organic-mechanical plantanimalthings, specifically ones that have crystals... Also his "Midworld", which describes a lovely, shiny plant with sharp metal edges, useful for discouraging browsing animals.
"The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks", can't remember the author, describes plants which are able to move their vines... their pots are attached to skateboards and the plants can then roll themselves around.
gamma
03-19-2004, 05:59 PM
OK, so, plants it is. I woke up with amazing thoughts about what my final piece should look like. I'd like to show the... "rise of the plant-machines"... tehehe... ok, it wasn't funny. Anyway, I'm thinking of having 3-5 panels across the top/bottom.
1: An old tree that's grown up around a board fence and some barbed wire, so it has a pair of rotten boards and a largeish tangle of barbed wire.
half panel: Green radioactive glow, LOTS of falling metal, basically the whole planet leveled with only a few seeds underground and maybe a few animal/human survivors.
2: A plant wielding a knife and fighting off a beaver or some sort of ... large rodent like critter. Maybe try to work in a mutation or obvious sickness (skin leisons) on the beaver-critter, with more of the green glow in the background. Maybe try to work in barbed wire.
half panel: ?? Not sure yet, maybe just a fainter green glow and lots of metal decay OR somehow show plants communicating.... Sign language?
3: A seedling that's grown in a cup or some sort of metal pot (a mug?) rolling it's self along sideways (mug without a handle?). Have to use lots of motion blur here, or a steep hill. And possibly show the seedling leaving behind a bunch of other seedlings that are bigger.
half panel: Close up of a plant tenderil around a motherboard.
4: Distance (space?) shot, a bunch of silvery metalic shapes rising into sunlight over the curve of the earth.
And of course, the main piece...
A large plant in a hover-pot with implanted knife edges in some of it's tenderils and structural reinforcements. Perhaps a bark-graft that protects a weak area, or a place that's been attacked and bark has been torn away to reveal metal underneath. And of course some tenderils with large mirrors attached to direct sunlight. And miscelaneous thin wires and cables running from the tree (presumably from the trees... brain?) to the control panel of the hover-pot.
The only problem will be making it more serious then funny.
1: An old tree that's grown up around a board fence and some barbed wire, so it has a pair of rotten boards and a largeish tangle of barbed wire.
half panel: Green radioactive glow, LOTS of falling metal, basically the whole planet leveled with only a few seeds underground and maybe a few animal/human survivors.
2: A plant wielding a knife and fighting off a beaver or some sort of ... large rodent like critter. Maybe try to work in a mutation or obvious sickness (skin leisons) on the beaver-critter, with more of the green glow in the background. Maybe try to work in barbed wire.
half panel: ?? Not sure yet, maybe just a fainter green glow and lots of metal decay OR somehow show plants communicating.... Sign language?
3: A seedling that's grown in a cup or some sort of metal pot (a mug?) rolling it's self along sideways (mug without a handle?). Have to use lots of motion blur here, or a steep hill. And possibly show the seedling leaving behind a bunch of other seedlings that are bigger.
half panel: Close up of a plant tenderil around a motherboard.
4: Distance (space?) shot, a bunch of silvery metalic shapes rising into sunlight over the curve of the earth.
And of course, the main piece...
A large plant in a hover-pot with implanted knife edges in some of it's tenderils and structural reinforcements. Perhaps a bark-graft that protects a weak area, or a place that's been attacked and bark has been torn away to reveal metal underneath. And of course some tenderils with large mirrors attached to direct sunlight. And miscelaneous thin wires and cables running from the tree (presumably from the trees... brain?) to the control panel of the hover-pot.
The only problem will be making it more serious then funny.
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04-08-2004, 04:35 PM
Your mind is a about to be blown up by ideas and inspirations :). I am very impressed. There is too much details to comment them separatedly, I hope you'll be satisfied with one small comment: "Fantastic!". Serious rather that funny? I would make it ethereal and kinda mysteriuous - subtle lighting, specular bloom etc. Just my opinion. Good luck :thumbsup:
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