Airplane Study

[Daniel]

I'm blown away by your model, Eric.

[boofredlay]

Thanks again everyone. Hopefully a render will be coming from me soon.

[tomislavm]

Fantastic render, 5+!

[sepo]

Great model Boo...fantastic amount of deatail....Solo that is really nice render...and 17min. is just amazing.

[david_h]

In the Words of Howard Hughes in the Movie "The Rocketeer"

"The Sonuvabh" will fly!"***

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[IdahoJ]

Very cool! The only thing missing is the "prop disk"...

[boofredlay]

Thanks, however there is not a propeller. See here:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=155314#p155314

[JHuman]

I love these models. Could you explain a little on how you modeled the body and the wings, thats what I am stumped on from looking at the wireframes. Great job, thanks!

[boofredlay]

Thanks. Those shapes were simple really. Just a cylinder for the body, using the scale tool on segments about the cylinder. And for the wings I made a profile and pushed the shape, scaled one side, pushed again, scaled or rotated...

Hope this helps.

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[JHuman]

OK, that makes sense, I guess I was confused from the amount of triangles in the wireframes. I thought you used the sandbox tool. I have never used the sandbox tool to create that clean of shapes, only landscape. Thanks for the reply.

[boofredlay]

Ok, here is a first run at rendering this "Big Bird".

Shiny out of the box...

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[Dantheman]

the third one is epic

[boofredlay]

Thanks Bruce.
Well the original author called it "Big Bird" so I think I will stick with that.

Edit: Thanks Dan.

[solo]

Spud?

[liam887]

yeah that third image in the clouds is good, is it finished yet?

[boofredlay]

No, this was just a first try. I may even do multiple color schemes and what not.

[liam887]

A sharks teeth WW2 paint scheme would look pretty good you up for that?

[mike d]

eric
that really looks good.

[solo]

Big Bird flies!

I did a few short animations, compiled it quickly with basic 'ol Windows movie maker, slapped on an audio track and we have the Big Bird music video.

If I had more time I'd have done better clean up and editing.

Sit back, crank up the sound (earphones would be best) and see Erics baby go.

[flash=640,480:3vf4cxn1]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4755201&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1[/flash:3vf4cxn1]

Modeled in SU by Boofredlay, textured and animated with Vue 7 infinite.

[museummaker]

Watch out Pixar!!!

Sincere congratulation on a fantastic piece o' work.