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Mar. 11th, 2014
I can FEEL my digital skills improving.
Mar. 11th, 2014 11:05 amSince I got the idea that my digital peoples should go to an amusement park, I have been looking online for free models that I could use. I found a Ferris wheel [assuming it doesn't give my computer a hernia :p ], bumper cars and a water park [also assuming that it doesn't give my computer a hernia either]. I could not, however, find for free a model of my most favorite amusement of all time: the merry-go-round.
Just now, though, I figured out how to kitbash a simple, static digital model of a merry-go-round using a combination of models I already have, primitives and freely available stuff. I used the skills detailed in my entry about stalking the elusive 1:6 scale electric wheelchair, in which I broke down my target item into easily replicable forms. Essentially, a merry-go-round has several basic components:
The most complex elements are the mobile ride-on units. I'm thinking that I'll use horses, since I have a horse model hanging around, in two positions: prancing or running with all feet off the ground [good for mobile ride-on units]. I'll scale and pose the horse appropriately, then export as an obj to delete all the unnecessary rigging information. Then I'll take it into Hexagon and reduce the level of detail as much as I can get away with. When I import it back into Daz, it should be a relatively low-poly model that won't give my computer acid reflux when I put several in a scene.
Stay tuned...
Just now, though, I figured out how to kitbash a simple, static digital model of a merry-go-round using a combination of models I already have, primitives and freely available stuff. I used the skills detailed in my entry about stalking the elusive 1:6 scale electric wheelchair, in which I broke down my target item into easily replicable forms. Essentially, a merry-go-round has several basic components:
- round platform for the whole thing to sit on
- thick central column to house motor [and, optionally, operator] and support roof
- torus platform around motor housing to provide deck for ride-on units
- thin columns around perimeter of deck to additionally support roof
- shallow dome or conical bowl, inverted, as roof
- ride-on units that go up and down
- poles through the center of each mobile ride-on unit
- cross-pieces near the bases of these poles to help riders mount and dismount
- stationary ride-on units
The most complex elements are the mobile ride-on units. I'm thinking that I'll use horses, since I have a horse model hanging around, in two positions: prancing or running with all feet off the ground [good for mobile ride-on units]. I'll scale and pose the horse appropriately, then export as an obj to delete all the unnecessary rigging information. Then I'll take it into Hexagon and reduce the level of detail as much as I can get away with. When I import it back into Daz, it should be a relatively low-poly model that won't give my computer acid reflux when I put several in a scene.
Stay tuned...
A painted, dressed prototype has appeared on Three Zero's Facebook page. The likeness still isn't fully there, but I am pleased to note that the company has accurately reproduced Peter Dinklage's relative proportions. Thus the doll is a mostly successful representation of a person with dwarfism, as opposed to a cheat accomplished by scaling down a figure of a person without dwarfism to, say, 75%. So cool!
I love the headsculpt's thoroughly disgruntled expression. "Really? You thought that crack about midget bowling was funny? Wow. The mind boggles at the epic shallowness of your banal bigotry."
He might need to be a Zombieville tertiary...maybe one of the co-heads of the Lakeside Community Co-op along with Sylvia Blomqvist. Or, better yet, an anti-PWS activist whose remarks about "safe neighborhoods" and "the importance of tourist income" thinly disguise revulsion toward PWS, especially those in Toxic Waste.
Lumberjack vs. this guy -- hmmmm...
I love the headsculpt's thoroughly disgruntled expression. "Really? You thought that crack about midget bowling was funny? Wow. The mind boggles at the epic shallowness of your banal bigotry."
He might need to be a Zombieville tertiary...maybe one of the co-heads of the Lakeside Community Co-op along with Sylvia Blomqvist. Or, better yet, an anti-PWS activist whose remarks about "safe neighborhoods" and "the importance of tourist income" thinly disguise revulsion toward PWS, especially those in Toxic Waste.
Lumberjack vs. this guy -- hmmmm...