Thanks Daniel.

@cotty said: Any glue to components? Yep, that was it. I just figured it out just as you posted. Thanks Cotty.

Sorry there have been no updates. My day job has been very busy this month.

It's the free version of Twilight. I was using Kerkythea before, but Twilight is far easier to use.

Don't use proxies, work directly with the geometry. Create your shape, then subdivide it, look at it then Undo and retouch it, then subdivide until you are happy with the result. If you are afraid of bugsplats, just copy the not subdivided geometry nearby once in a while.

Sci-fi shots are right-on Majid!

Thanks Ken. All great suggestions and you are exactly right about the lighting and atmospherics. What you see right now was all done in SketchUp. I was testing the limits of SU. Here's what I did: The background is a watermark. WM is set as "background" and not "overlay" the fog isn't really fog, it's just the blend slider on the WM setting. Fog doesn't work with watermarks. The WM is what makes the bike shadow "off" the light beam is a rather dodgy square cone with transparent material the shadows really don't match quite right with the background due to SU's lighting limitations (I tried to pick a picture that was somewhat ambiguous for this reason) So yes, it definitely needs more work and I will eventually make the changes. This is my first experiment with backgrounds in SU. My first tries always look a little wonky. Again, thanks Ken. That is a very clear step by step process and I will have to try it. I have some other ideas as well that fit with the animation.

Reworked landing gear. Well this is it. I'm ready to move on to something else. I'll do some studio renders. I'm also going to try a very short animation. I'll send the model to anyone else who wants to do renders as well. Just PM me. [image: GOg2_hoverbike6f.jpg] [image: muJC_hoverbike6g.jpg] [image: Bt1r_hoverbike6e.jpg]

Head over to the hoverbike thread and look at the latest post.

Well that's it. Done for now. Might fiddle with it some more in the future, but it certainly was a good slump buster. (thanks Andre!) [image: gBqJ_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal1.jpg] [image: 0ppg_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal2.jpg] [image: OIJi_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal3.jpg] [image: 2Xgo_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal4.jpg] [image: je3v_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal5.jpg] [image: 5Chb_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal6.jpg] [image: zsV5_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal7.jpg] [image: vJ1E_practicerobotandrefritztutfinal8.jpg]

Always very funny to use! [image: z6KK_soap5.jpg]

@box said: Just as an example to make it clearer. In the Corner Bar you can post directly as it is a fully open forum but there are also sub forums within the corner bar for more specific questions. Therefore this thread would be more accurately placed if you had posted it in the subforum called Ideas Box & Board Issues. This is the anything goes forum so it's not that important, the others are more specific so that the questions go to the right places. Thanks again. I rarely stray from the gallery and WIP forums so I am unfamiliar with the rest of the board. I really appreciate the heads up.

@pbacot said: Nice Brian. That's a great first run Artisan + Kerky PM Thanks pbacot. The nice thing is I already seeing what I did wrong. On to the next one!

I've temporarily lost the momentum on this. I'm going to do some conventional models and then come back to Artisan. I wasn't real pleased with the park model either. So much so I took it down from my website. The beer goggles on the other hand...

@cotty said: There are a lot of example models here, you can download them and play with the proxies to study their influences on the final meshes ... Excellent! Thanks! Bookmarked.

@mike amos said: Terrible, makes a park look like a postage stamp, honestly..... Seriously, cool work as usual, a masterful use of space and allusion to there being more than there actually is. Truly brilliant Bryan. Thanks Mike. I had to make a lot of compromises from my original vision. There was supposed to be a lot more bamboo and the main path was supposed to wind more. I had to laugh when I saw Watkins post over in the WIP thread. He pretty much mentioned most of the things I wanted to include, but couldn't due to the model becoming too large and un-workable. I still like the resultant design, but I'm not real thrilled with the final render. It came close to what I wanted. Oh well, practice, practice, practice!