Post a Picture - Something You Created!

Okay, so I've been trying out that Sculptris program that Fang and WipEout were talking about, and this is my first shot.
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Obviously not finished yet, but I think it's pretty interesting for a first shot. Took me about an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours. Wasn't really paying attention.

IMAGE(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/Liolai/skully.jpg)

First attempt at Sculptris, also first attempt at ever using a 3D modelling program. Took maybe a couple of hours, and won't ever be finished because my computer can't seem to handle graphics of such mad intensity. : P
Sculptris kept crashing fantastically. She will never have teeth or a jawbone.

Rob Anybody, your lizard dude is most excellent. My cute little skull is humbled.

Lucy? Is that you?

I am in awe of all you guy's 3d modeling skills. I tried my hand at it but I didn't seem to have the knack. I probably used up all of that brain power on pattern recognition instead. Hence my ability to make stuff like this:
IMAGE(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5297/elfweavehybridrosette.png)
I should probably explain just what the heck this thing is. Now where did I put that chainmail thread of mine...

Tamren wrote:

I am in awe of all you guy's 3d modeling skills. I tried my hand at it but I didn't seem to have the knack. I probably used up all of that brain power on pattern recognition instead. Hence my ability to make stuff like this:
IMAGE(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5297/elfweavehybridrosette.png)
I should probably explain just what the heck this thing is. Now where did I put that chainmail thread of mine...

chain mail coasters?

Bad idea. No friction

Chainmail pasties?

No friction

Actually... is that really a bad thing?

EDIT: More pix! http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/4...

LiquidMantis wrote:

Chainmail pasties?

That was my thought. Sounds like a good idea to me, where could it go wrong?

IMAGE(http://www.whereismyeyeball.com/images/Shaolin-Poster.jpg)

I posted this in the Post A Picture thread but I guess it fits here too since I made it. Just a painting for fun.

It's a chainmail yarmulke, isn't it?

If anyone thinks the Sculptris program won't run on your PC, I would try it out. It ran decently on this laptop which is a centrino duo 2.0ghz with 2.0gb of ram and an on board video card.

The poly reduction button (looks like an X and you can hit it multiple times while retaining the quality of your model) works wonders and believe it or not, that skull could be a lot more polys in a program like zbrush. (people typically work with anywhere from 10 million to 50 million tris in that program... 2 million is very light detail typically for digital sculpting)

Also, make sure your brushes don't have the detail slider set beyond halfway. You really don't more than that and can get away with it set to 1/3.

Great work though for both of you. I hope you are having as much fun as it looks like you are!

fangblackbone wrote:

The poly reduction button (looks like an X and you can hit it multiple times while retaining the quality of your model) works wonders and believe it or not, that skull could be a lot more polys in a program like zbrush. (people typically work with anywhere from 10 million to 50 million tris in that program... 2 million is very light detail typically for digital sculpting)

Also, make sure your brushes don't have the detail slider set beyond halfway. You really don't more than that and can get away with it set to 1/3.

Great work though for both of you. I hope you are having as much fun as it looks like you are!

Wow, thanks for the pointers! I'll keep those very useful tips in mind.

bombsfall wrote:

Recent stuff for our cartoon/plush line:

Dayamn, beautiful stuff, man!

Just had an "AHA!" moment of invention.
IMAGE(http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2082/elfweaveorbitalreverses.png)
I'll explain what this is later when I figure it out myself.

bombsfall wrote:

Recent stuff for our cartoon/plush line:

Very awesome. Are you selling prints of any of those? My walls still have lots of space open for artwork.

Bombsfall, your work is lovely.

necroyeti wrote:

It's a chainmail yarmulke, isn't it?

Didn't realize what you meant until I googled the word. I've never heard that name for it, it was always referred to as a kippah in my memory.

Now that I think about it, yeah it would make a pretty good one. But again the problem is friction because its made of aluminium. Does a kippah have anything special about it that stop it from falling off? Or is it just gravity alone? They always seem to be teetering on the edge.

Tamren wrote:
necroyeti wrote:

It's a chainmail yarmulke, isn't it?

Didn't realize what you meant until I googled the word. I've never heard that name for it, it was always referred to as a kippah in my memory.

Now that I think about it, yeah it would make a pretty good one. But again the problem is friction because its made of aluminium. Does a kippah have anything special about it that stop it from falling off? Or is it just gravity alone? They always seem to be teetering on the edge.

Yarmulke is the Yiddish word, Kippah is the Hebrew word; and I think there are clips for the smaller ones; larger ones are crocheted to fit snugly around the head.

Rob_Anybody wrote:
bombsfall wrote:

Recent stuff for our cartoon/plush line:

Very awesome. Are you selling prints of any of those? My walls still have lots of space open for artwork.

I too need these to be awesome prints for my cube at work.

Here's a sheet of plywood I stained and painted because the only table we own is too small to comfortably play games on.

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I just slap the wizarded plywood onto our small tabletop and, voila, tablespace for six!

IMAGE(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2814936255_db2d5c871e.jpg)

That.. is totally cool. Oil based paints?

Pawz wrote:

That.. is totally cool. Oil based paints?

Thanks. Not oils. In fact, I just used the cheap acrylic stuff from the craft store. It was more like tinted water than actual paint, but it kept the project cheap. Unfortunately the acrylic sealant was garbage so I had to eventually use an oil-based sealant. It soaked into the acrylic paint and darkened up the image overall a little, but it's now sufficiently protected from Cheetos and Mountain Dew.

but it's now sufficiently protected from Cheetos and Mountain Dew.

And magic missiles shot into the darkness!

More Sculptris WIPs:

IMAGE(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7711/newarmor.jpg)

IMAGE(http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/2372/newarmor2.jpg)

IMAGE(http://switchbreak.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2ps-screenshot-300x225.png)

A game prototype I put together this week.

Switchbreak wrote:

IMAGE(http://switchbreak.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2ps-screenshot-300x225.png)

A game prototype I put together this week.

I like that you picked red and green as the two main colors. Send us a link if you have it.

PandaEskimo wrote:

I like that you picked red and green as the two main colors. Send us a link if you have it.

Psst, the picture is a link!

Switchbreak wrote:
PandaEskimo wrote:

I like that you picked red and green as the two main colors. Send us a link if you have it.

Psst, the picture is a link!

Thanks, read the idea, which sounds really cool, but I can't get it to run. "XINPUT1_3.dll" cannot be found. This is on a Win XP laptop.