SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

Interesting freebie for Blender users...a German tank, rigged for animation. There were times while I was yet working, during rush hour, when it would have been nice to have had one of these...haha. A close friend of mine who had taught me her NY driving survival skills, gave me a gag gift one time...it was an add-on for my dashboard, a flip switch that had "Death Ray" on it...haha.

GERMAN WWII ERA HEAVY TANK TIGER I

 

[Janet]

 

[Terre]

Good morning.

 

[Linda B]

Morning, Terre!

 

[skylab]

Hey everybody And there's Janet's moonwalking pony...haha

 

[skylab]

Since interest in the Beatles was expressed, I'm searching for the scene files used while creating the hybrid Nos-Doc Beatles animation. I've found this work in progress pic, where work was done on the Nos heads first, to create a likeness of the foursome. I'll try to save out those face poses, if I can, in order to pass them on to you. Here's one of the working renders from that project:

 

[skylab]

Janet, while I had it on my mind, here's your Hivewire Shetland moonwalk converted to a .gif animation for you

 

[skylab]

The Nos Beatles heads loaded, and successfully saved the facial poses, except George has a problem in the lower neck area, probably hidden in the hybrid joining to Doc's body. I'll fix this after I've had my nap, so the whole band may be ready to zip and upload this evening, hopefully.

 

[DanaTA]

STEVIE WONDHEIN
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Very good! All of these are very good!

That looks like a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer!

Dana

 

[skylab]

It was actually an old product from Rendo, and I still consider it my best keyboard, since it's fully rigged. It was called Poseable DX7 Synthesizer by Holli.

 

[Linda B]

Evening everyone.

 

[Linda B]

This was just a test render of a scene. Poser crashed while loading background and other props.

 

[skylab]

I'm putting together info that will help in using the Nos-Doc hybrid character. It looks complicated, but really it isn't. The setup is just time consuming. And you'll see that it's possible to combine any characters the same way...so if you lack clothing for one character, you can use the body of another, for which you do have clothing. Poser is wonderfully flexible with this sort of thing...since that's what it is...a character creation and animation software

The band instruments are free, from 3dpmr.com, toward the end of free stuff pages, in the older models.

 

[Linda B]

 

[skylab]

 

[skylab]

Hey Linda

I think I've got all the Nos-Doc Beatles pose files saved correctly, and zipped in a runtime folder, attached to this post.

Have fun with it

 

[Linda B]

Those shrooms are so cute!

 

[skylab]

They came from over at CP...so I guess they went down with the ship...it's a shame. I got several of their unusual characters...the evil slime, a yellow slug. This past Christmas I was horsing around with Play-Doh, and created a Play-Doh container for the Evil Slime to pop out of...haha. I was using the Play-Doh projects as hand therapy for not only myself (my poor hands suffer in the winter months), but other family members, plus fun samples for kids. Some examples below, and the container that I modeled is zipped and attached to this post...it's about the extent of my modeling capabilities

 

[Linda B]

Well my modeling skills are awful so you're one step ahead of me. I've been playing around with a toon taxi I found in my runtime. No idea where it came from. Render to follow tomorrow since it's about my bedtime. Night!

 

[skylab]

Good night Linda...I think I'll go off and catch a power nap at least, and check back late tonight.

Have a good evening everyone