3d Animations and Still Images

[xoxoxoBruce]

Waiting for the doors to open.

[fargon]

Slang, That was excellent, I wish I was smart enough to do that.

[slang]

Originally Posted by glatt

Interesting! I never visualized the cellar in such a concrete way. I'm intrigued to see more.

Maybe it's more basement than cellar. Anyway the idea is that you come down the cellar doors into the cellar and see these strange things going on and places to visit. Done as a non-urban theme too. We need more hillbillys here at the cellar.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Clodfobble has an incredibly sexy voice

Yes, and it's almost as if it's computer generated.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Waiting for the doors to open.

Ah, very cool. Stand alone characters. That will be a nice addition once I get there.

The cellar characters will need to be unique and not a copy of anything else. That's a challenge with all those TMed things out in the market.

Originally Posted by fargon

Slang, That was excellent, I wish I was smart enough to do that.

Thanks fargon.

It's unclear if smarts is what it actually takes to make videos like this. Focus, determination and the reality that every time you make something that you think is interesting you really know that's it's much less than what a 13 year old Indian kid is doing in his spare time.

Do the best you can...see the project's flaws...research how to do it better...improve with the next project. Repeat.

[glatt]

Not to go off on another tangent, but I just saw this over on FB.

Pretty neat.

[slang]

Originally Posted by glatt

Not to go off on another tangent, but I just saw this over on FB. Pretty neat.

This is a big deal. When you can create editable models from a photo and do it quickly you have a powerful tool.

A few years ago there was something similar to this in process for one of the big engineering softwares. I can't remember if it was UGNX or one of the other big 5.

The quicker that you can model a proposed concept and then go on to make a rapid prototype to put that concept in a real world model into someone's hands, the better you will be*. This 3-sweep software also specifically describes itself as able to create editable models. This is another important detail. It also seems so simple that ( not to be unkind here but ) the marketing people could easily use it and dial in exactly what the customer or research group would most benefit from. That would save much design time*.

Another factor in using this would be the cost of a license. It seems reasonable with the huge savings in time and therefore money in salaries, that the software would be expensive. Or at least it should be since it's most likely going to shave a significant amount of cash from your expense column.

And, I agree, it's very cool.


* - true only if your customer or market research group truly know what they want.

[footfootfoot]

I was talking to the shop teacher at the VoTech part of our HS, he is a former pattern maker and he was showing me some of the cool toys he has in his class room, The 3D printer being the most ho-hum of them all. One thing is a machine that will take a 2D image and make a 3D model of it. It's really insane, all the crap these machines can do in a few minutes to an hour, while the operator needs little more than the skill required to operate a coffee maker.

[slang]

We all have more capable machines and softwares now. The question is what will we do with them?

And what will sell? What would be profitable now that anyone can afford to make nearly anything?

[footfootfoot]

BREW BEER!

[Happy Monkey]

Materials and components. It'll be a while before consumer devices can 3D-print a battery, motor, or microchip, but it probably won't be too long before a 3D-printer pattern includes them, and the printer can insert them.

Patterns will be sold as well, but they are easily pirated.

[glatt]

So the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer?

Hard to look at that and not see people being put out of work. Maybe we can all work in health care? They can't automate that, can they? Somebody has to change diapers and clip toenails.

We live in interesting times.

[Clodfobble]

I dunno, most of that stuff is already made in other countries anyway, isn't it? The question is, can the 3D printer make it for less than a Chinese 5-year-old?

[footfootfoot]

There's been some new developments announced today on stem cell research so soon we'll be able to print Chinese 5-year-olds.

[Clodfobble]

Well sure... It'll be a while before consumer devices can 3D-print a soul, but it probably won't be too long before a 3D-printer pattern includes them, and the printer can insert them.

[slang]

Here's a little clip with a story.

This is a short video of a logo spinning that I created as a proposal for a potential customer.

It doesn't have a lot of flash but it's the general idea of what he wanted. This was a basic version that I'd jazz up with better textures and lighting once it was accepted. A formal quote was signed and sent. I know that the client had two other quotes for exactly this same work. The higher of the two was double the price of what I quoted.

Today I hear that the client did actually like what I prepared for him as a start point for the project but that he gave the contract to someone else for more than double my price in hopes of getting some extra exposure for the Super Bowl that was included in the deal.

Client paid the cash...never received anything. Not the finished logo and not the exposure at the Super Bowl.

After this job went cold I thought that it wasn't good enough. That turns out NOT to be the case. It's not Pixar quality but the client was happy with it as a start point.

So here it is. Not looking all that difficult but could not be completed on time by someone else at over twice the price that I was charging.

[slang]

I'm still working on finishing the cellar video.

It has turned out to be more work that I can do quickly. There are also issues that need to be fixed from the teaser video. Like the way the camera moves, very choppy.

It's still in the works despite thinking it was nearly ready to post.