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    • RE: The queen is hot, so get it on...

      @durant hapke said:

      Brothers, and Sisters,

      So, helicopters are the flavor of the day, that and Colt bring the stone age.

      For my pose from back in the day, I got a long lost call from "M3" last night, looking for some instructional videos on self lubrication, so I provided.

      In the corse of the chat, we pondered back to the stink day.

      Found said recollections, so am posting again for those who have missed said experience:

      Jack bird bring it.

      This friend, "M Cube," we called him (Marvin Michael Moore, was his name, but his mom divorced his spin bucket "D," and took back her maiden action which was something like Morony, but we all said, Moony, hence four M's), who was into Godzilla like a Jack Bird crack monkey (he always talked about an underground Godzilla porno that he claimed to have seen on a trip Spin Daddy took him on to streets of San Francisco China Town -- the big lizard doing it crazy with his scaled fillies -- plowing rock star with his man dragon -- crushing buildings, while radioactive genetic soup sputtered out from the "little brains" nestled between his big stumpy legs, and plasma beams, brought down airliners filled with screaming passengers... Awesome. Never got to check it out though).

      Anyway, the M Cube got bit in the finger by Mister Snaps, his sisters cat.

      Mr. Snaps was nice, but for some reason on this one day, he had the notion that it was big fun to just throw down, and go WWF on the middle finger of M4's handy hand, and one of the critters big front teeth went on through the nail -- creating a perfectly round hole just above the cuticle -- not that big, but deep, like it was made by Black and Decker. The blood came out slow, and was inky black.

      Ouch -- His Morony Mom made him soak it in a paper cup of alcohol -- I remember him kind of sweating, and turning all oatmeal like. Jump back pain.

      So it healed after a bit, and we just went on our marry drawing, and bugging his sisters friends way ("Fine little Beth birdie, you want some seeds?").

      Then a week or so after the big "chomp" we decided to play a bit of twenty one, shoot a few hoops, here at this drive.

      The sun was out, it was blue sky awesome. A few dudes from down the block joined in. It was going killer, I think a few conspiratorial cold ones were had.

      The game heats up, I'm getting set to throw -- a set shot from the curb... then whew! What the funk? What is that funky funk funk stink?

      I mean I'm smelling stank, stinky stank, stank -- deep thick oder, like death perhaps, or Tokyo crushing lizard bowels, it's all bad, and it's wafting off the ball...

      The B-Ball is the funk source...

      Your guts want to run, but your head, says "let me take another whiff of that horrid stink," so I put my nose right onto the ball surface, and "mother of God, this thing is totally polluted, the rankest of rank vapor is here."

      I flip the ball to Johnny O, and he pulls a snoot full into his head, "Crap! That's awful, so rankin' awful stinky!"

      The dude nearly hurls, drops the ball, and lays down on the yard.

      The Cube is all, "DH, take the shot!"

      Sister Beth, and friends are trickling out to watch us now -- lining there cute young cut off jeans sporting back sides up on the concrete steps.

      "Shoot, dude!"

      It's important to keep the man hormones pumping.

      We toss a few more buckets, but it's hard to keep going as the stink is growing.

      I notice the Cubes sisters, squinting, and taking in the air -- still hot of course, but looking a bit like they're illing.

      "Jacky, Jack, Jack Bird, Jack, the whole stink action is killing me!"

      "What is the story here?"

      Then it all unravels...

      M Cube drops the ball...

      The world comes into sharp focus, and it is crystal...

      Marvin Michael Moore Marony, lifts his hand to his face, and sniffs his finger -- "Oh, dude..."

      He's instantly copy paper white, staggers forward, and fights off a tumble.

      Of corse, he's my Water Clown drawing friend, I head right over to have a look look -- I scope out a bit of weird paste on his middle finger, and as I start to register this, the Cube takes hold of the finger with his other hand, and squeezes -- "Holy mother of Godzilla!"

      The little hole on the back of his nail erupts -- I mean like he's jack working a tube of Crest -- a thick train of caky white calk coils out of the fissure, and just keeps coming, and coming, and now it's dropping onto the drive, and down goes the M Cube -- collapsing in a cloud of spooy zoo cage drain stench.

      Mom Morony runs out, and 911 gets a jingle.

      I hit the shower, and burn through a entire bar of Irish Spring.

      So, what happened? The crazy cat tooth, had punctured this funky tube like lining that tendons run threw deep inside the wiggly finger, so this bit of infection got trapped with in (Oh, that's a rotten root), and after simmering in there a good long bit, it built up the necessary "pus fund" to transform the digit into a stinky stew dispenser.

      And that it was.

      Durant "print it again" Hapke

      I suspect the Coen brothers will want to buy the rights to this story.

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    • RE: Hi...I'm back, sort of

      What sort of illustration class are you teaching?

      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: Received some recognition for "out there" architecture

      Nice work Lewis. Looks good in the newsletter.

      Mr. Dove seems to be a bit cranky. I think you lucked out big time.

      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: Muse

      Yea, I have a muse. It's sitting in the fridge next to some limes.

      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: First Quicktime VR's

      @marked001 said:

      nice..that seems really really cool. dust off the floppies and upload one or two 😉

      I'll dig one out. Problem will be the size. I'll see what I can do.

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    • RE: First Quicktime VR's

      I used a special tripod setup and my digital camera. I shooting 9 to 11 shots 360 degrees at the horizon, the same at 45 degrees up and down and a cap shot 90 up and 90 down. I then used RealViz Stitcher to output a equirectangular image. I then would import into Cubic convertor export movie import into connector make hotspots then process into one movie.

      http://www.realviz.com/

      At the risk of sounding like old man time, the original VR Suite from Apple consisted of 3, three-ring binders of manuals and coding info. It is a lot easier nowadays.

      I also used a cool sound software with the 360 VRs that allowed you to add stereo sound. Say you are looking at a highway with a group of people talking behind you. As you turn the image on the screen, the highway road sound gets more hushed and people's voices get louder. Really cool effect. Only on a mac and OS9. Old as dirt. SoundsaVR was the name.
      http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4138

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    • RE: First Quicktime VR's

      @marked001 said:

      the next thing 'someone' needs to figure out is how to add hot spots to the VR... so when you click on a spot.. you jump to that point and your viewpoint is now at that point..

      They've had that for twenty years. I did an art museum using twenty panos I shot with clickable links. Old days with Apples software, now with cubic connector and cubic convertor.

      http://www.clickheredesign.com.au/cubicconnector/

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    • RE: .office interior.

      Jason,

      These are all really nice. The level of detail, modeling, the style, the whole package. Fantastic work.

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    • RE: Paul Russam΄s Church and Indigo

      @schreiberbike said:

      I'm blown away, both by the SU model and by the renderings. This was so good I showed my wife.

      Funny, I did the same thing! That is an outstanding model.

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    • RE: Paul Russam΄s Church and Indigo

      Out freakin' standing render kwisty. And beautiful model Paul.

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    • RE: Pavilion project renderings

      Beautiful work Lewis. The compositions and colors are just wonderful. I wouldn't be any big rush to go for the other rendering techniques. These are pretty nice.

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    • RE: Where do you work?

      Right here on the courthouse square, our county seat. Couldn't be any more like Mayberry. Got your bullet Barney?


      workJake.kmz.zip

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    • RE: Fritz Hansen - Space Chair

      Damn Ypnos, I've always loved that project. It was published some time ago, right? I am going to build one in my backyard so I can escape from the kids when I need to (usually once every few hours).

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    • RE: Fritz Hansen - Space Chair

      Yep, I'm in. I hate him too.

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    • RE: Art Gallery after hours

      Scott,

      I think the rendering is nice, but I think the lighting is a little too dim for a modern art gallery.

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    • RE: Cheetah3D renderings

      Yea, good ole' Indiana. You can't buy a bottle of wine on Sunday, but you can get enough fireworks to level a city 24/7.

      I'm glad they were helpful.

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    • RE: Cheetah3D renderings

      @unknownuser said:

      I am a SketchUp pro user and have been looking for a good rendering
      program. My company is looking at Turbosketch which I am just
      beginning to try. I came across this thread regarding Cheetah3D and
      was impressed with the quality. I would like to know how easy it is to
      import a SU model into Cheetah to get these results. It doesn't look
      like Cheetah supports the .skp extension. I love modeling in SU but
      wouldn't be opposed to using another app along side. As I said, I am
      looking at Turbosketch which integrates right into the SU model. Any
      insights would be appreciated.
      Thanks,
      Tim

      Tim,

      The .3ds and .fbx exports from SketchUp work well with Cheetah. You can also get some nice animation work out of it. I just tested a scene I've using with other renderers and it was a bit slow compared to Modo which I use quite a bit. Your best bet would be to go to the Cheetah forum and ask. There are a decent amount of SketchUp to Cheetah users there.

      I'm afraid I've been away from Cheetah for many months and there have been a lot of changes since I've used it to any great extent. You really can't go wrong though– it's only 120 bucks! It's a great little program.

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    • RE: Cheetah3D renderings

      @kwick7 said:

      @mike lucey said:

      Thanks Jeff, I particulary like this one,
      http://www.designorg.com/openWeb/kitchen.html

      I'm expecting delivery of the training CDs
      over the next few days so hopefully will be
      jump in a get going.

      Mike

      Do you know which rendering program this was done in?

      That was a mistake. It was done with a camera. 😲

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    • RE: Cheetah3D renderings

      @mike lucey said:

      Thanks Jeff, I particulary like this one,
      http://www.designorg.com/openWeb/kitchen.html

      I'm expecting delivery of the training CDs
      over the next few days so hopefully will be
      jump in a get going.

      Mike

      I think that is just a photo VR. Must of circled that one by mistake thinking it was the one with the metallic blob. I wish my renders were that good. Sorry.

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    • RE: Cheetah3D renderings

      @mike lucey said:

      @unknownuser said:

      Looks great Francois. Here's the thread at the Cheetah3d forum.

      http://cheetah3d.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1839

      The new Cheetah really has some great new features. Cheetah3d is a great, inexpensive software for the Mac and does really nice animation to boot. ALL Mac owners should be using it. I'm going to mess it with and see if I can catch up with the Francois and the others at the Cheetah forum!

      Jeff,

      Glad to learn that you HIGHLY recommend Cheetah 3D as I am giving the program a serious stab. I've played around with quite a few in the past and managed to get some results with Podium but now that I'm on a MAC I think C3D is a wise choice.

      I think what has won me over is that is possible to use 3DConnexion Navigator with the interface. I've also ordered the Beginner's CD Pack that was mentioned on the C3D forum, which I also joined 😒

      I understand that the program 'does really nice animation to boot' as your say ❗ Can you steer me to an animation created with C3D ❓ It would further encourage me to get stuck it.

      BTW, its fantastic value for money 😄

      Cheers,

      Mike

      There are some older Cheetah animations on this page–the yellow circled guys. I am going to give the new version a run and see how it works.

      http://www.designorg.com/openWeb/

      Nice animations Kannonbal!

      Edson,
      I like Artlantis too. Does a great job with certain situations and is pretty fast.


      cheetah.jpg

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