Great work! Cycle's shows promise for us Blender users.

Nice work! Though i think that the background looks too much like a picture. Maybe you need a bit more background interaction. But, regarding the model, no critiques

Good bump mapping on the furniture! Hey, did you know wthat Blender 2.57 is out? Check it out! It's the first official non-beta version of Blender! Getting closer to the end of the 2.5 series!

I think St. Michael's Cathedral is my favorite of all of them. Nice work on that so far!!

@solo said:

Is that the exhaust at the back between tail lights? If yes, why so high?

Some cars do have very high-up exhaust. Like the Pagani Zonda.

NIIIIIIIICE car.

To be perfectly honest, though, the only thing that is letting this car down are it's wheels. But the bodywork is fantastic!!

Lovely! Is it a mix of Koenigsegg and Citroen GT? It has design aspects from both. Beautiful work, deserves to have more publicity!

Thanks for the comments, everyone!

Nola, you're dead on with most of your analysis. This quote:

@unknownuser said:

I think Maclean finally realized that the world doesn't revolve around the Terrans, but that life or the means for its continuation should never be taken away from a person(s) simply because they are seen as different than us. Maybe Maclean was right. Maybe we are in a bit over our heads. Maybe we all are depriving life from another thing. Maybe we all could learn from the Aliens. Maybe...but now it's too late. It's not right!

Is exactly the point of my story. I had originally planned to just end with the irony that water, which is life to us, is death to them. But then I thought, "Wait a minute. Nobody ever asks what happens to the aliens--they're always just portrayed as the villians and everyone is happy when they are defeated." So I decided to make them more sympathetic characters.

And I think you're right, too, about how Maclean would have felt about the death of Ren'Tikdanak if he hadn't been affected by the lack of water. He was a lot more sympathetic towards the aliens at the end of the story.

The reason why I didn't write about what he went through after he drove the aliens insane is probably because he wsa slowly going batty himself. I really didn't know how to write like a person who's half-conscious and delusional for lack of water (as I've heard that's what dehydration does). 10 days is the maximum time a person can live without water, so he had to be in pretty bad shape by the time the supply ship arrived!

And I'd love to see the rest of your analysis!

Joshua, I'm glad you enjoyed the story. I think that the only way Maclean could have been made to look at Terrans from his new point of view is if the alien's mind-probe influenced him. I don't really think that it would have been realistic any other way.

Nola, do you do any writing? Your analysis was quite masterful!

Thanks again for the comments!

--PinkSkink

Heheh, I made my new avatar in Blender as well.

Very GT by Citroen-ish, yeah? Nice concept!

No problem. Like it?

By the way, someone on the 3d warehouse asked me to make a rock arch tutorial, so here's a pdf of it. I hope he can read it with out having to get an account here, but I doubt it...

RockArchTutorial.pdf

Hey

Well, I will do that.

A rally version? That sounds great. Hope to see that some time!

Well I've not been doing any SU at all lately, but I have been working furiously on Blender: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a7e63eb4cd061455a1830153974050c&prevstart=0 Check that out if you like

Well, I saw that anim before, but it's still awesome

Ok so ttyl

GF

Hi mate! Just wanted to ask you if there was anything going on in either Blender or Sketchup. Haven't seen a model from you in an age. Are you still doing Blender? If so, can I see some renders you've done?
GF

An amp sounds good! Keep us posted!

Granted. 'Fraid you have a bad postal service, as their lenses have fallen out and broken.

I wish for manicotti

Granted. Now your head hurts.

I wish Sketchucation had more smileys.

Granted. Now Sketchup costs $3000 per tool.

I wish my 3d model will turn out.

Hi REGIS, I really like this one. I think it does need work on the "Pose" if you will, but as this is a WIP, it is very much excusable. But perhaps when it is done, I'd put it into a scene or something. Nice work, otherwise, very good for a blender model. I find that it's hard to model more mechanical things, but you are doing it amazingly.

@liam887 said:

However next comes the hardest part, the dreaded paneling

I wish you luck mate. I hate paneling, personally