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@ Ghost

Square? Where'd that image go?



I'd rather do your avatar.

@ Ghost

It was in the back of my mind, but couldn't locate the one image that had your avatar's full figure. A web search for "kee" didn't turn her up, but did find some interesting bikini clad gals. Point me in the right direction, and I'm willing to try. I have a use for her, too, if I can get a better look.

I don't think anyone on the planet would mistake mine for his, but couldn't resist giving it a try:



Had him doing more than just spinning, but then Anim8or crashed and I lost some work. The suggestion about frequent saves while playing a game also applies to artwork, apparently.

A furry that at least one member of the forum might find interesting:



Assuming, of course, he's not already in there.

Bump...

Two days left. Hope someone submits something! Anyone know the protocol if no one enters? Who runs the next one?

@ qptain Nemo

Thanks for that! I probably should have made the initial post in the Rumpus Room, since I really did intend humor. I pulled up an old attempt at OSD to try something with the hair. The result cracked me up, and I wanted to share it. However, long term, Anian and Armageddon are both correct; Anim8or may not get me where I'd like to go. I can do animated gifs/avis with the program, but getting the rigged character and the motions from Anim8or into another program is likely to fail, unless there's something, some magical "Save As," that I have yet to find.

@ Ghost

I've only gotten through the first four games... Well, three actually. I lost interest in the RPG. I've yet to encounter those two.

@ Renal Shutdown

So much of the stuff I've found about Blender doesn't always explain the shortcut keys, or how to get to the right menus. I found a pdf of the Blender manual, slightly older than the version of Blender I have, which is more my cup-of-tea. It does take time.

@ All

I also have DAZ Studio, a Beta version of TrueSpace (released as Freeware after MS dropped it), the standard version of IClone, and the standard version of the 3DXchange program to move stuff into and out of IClone. DAZ Studio doesn't always behave as well as I'd like. TrueSpace's complexity mirrors Blender's. I've been impressed with IClone, but yet another learning curve to bang my head against.

I'm not able to promise making anything out of any of this, which may have been a part of Anian's comment. Having said that, I do have some thoughts about the mouse, if I can get a head for the gal and finish rigging OSD. It might even make a single room AGS game.

Edit: For my mouse based game to work, I now believe I'll also need a dead fish and a pelican. More stuff to make...

@ Armageddon:

I have been working at Blender, and I do understand the power of the program. But I am making frustratingly slow progress. Anim8or, on the other hand, is becoming fairly comfortable. All the previous bodies, here, were made quite some time ago. I just now worked this one up in Anim8or:



She's headless at the moment, but I'll work on that next, given time.

@ Ponch:

This was an attempt at the boobies body for the Piratess in OSD3.

Edit 1:

Since the face will take some time, thought I'd try for the mouse (or a mouse).



I'm not too sure if I need to go beyond this with the legs? This would work for what I have in mind at the moment, and my cat seems to be quite satisfied with the rubber one that looks a lot like this one.

@Ponch

Without specifically stating it, I'd made an attempt at Ray, earlier:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=48389.msg636458263#msg636458263

Anian and Armageddon both offered helpful suggestions, back then, which I have been working on. Apparently not fast enough, but such is life.

Pulled some stuff together and here 'tis:



Bryce render. with mostly Anim8or stuff. Looks like OSD may be levitating, a bit. Have to check that out.

And here, all this time, I thought you folks had good taste.

Guess I'll have to try to work on him some more.

In the meantime, here's one 3D nemesis for our gallant hero. No hair, but there are some bones in it:



This also done in Anim8or.

You folks don't need to tear this up, since I plan on trying again, but you certainly can if you want to do so; this is the Critics Lounge, afterall. Just wanted to share, since I liked a couple of things here.

An attempt at OSD, using Anim8or:

[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/osdHairTry_zps39d42054.gif[/imgzoom]

Used some bones in the hair, which, somehow, seemed appropriate for this particular character. Also gave him a suitable "bump out," for Ray's enjoyment.

"They call me many things..."              "Yo, Manny, 'sup?"

I'll see you at a disaster...

I first became aware of this particular disaster in a fairly round about manner. I have an ongoing interest in looking at the life of Robert J. Casey (1890-1962). Bob was a journalist/author, a reporter, who rolls up nearly twenty-seven years worth of columns, mostly in the Chicago Daily News. This research led me to Hazel MacDonald, who was also a reporter. She will have fewer columns than Casey, and those columns will appear in several different Chicago newspapers. Following the death, in 1945, of Casey's first wife, Miss Hazel MacDonald will become Mrs. Hazel MacDonald-Casey.

In looking at microfilm of some of Hazel's stuff, I came across a promotional ad for the paper in the Chicago Daily Times, from Thursday, June 27, 1940. At this point in time, the “War in Europe” was being covered by both Hazel's and Bob's papers. In fact, the ad has a picture of Hazel in her French War Correspondent uniform; she will be the only female correspondent accredited by the French government prior to the fall of France.

The banner line across the ad reads: “I'll see you â€" at a disaster.”

The text in the ad begins:

On a sunny day last September Hazel MacDonald left the TIMES office for what was then called, suspensefully enough, the “theater of war” in Europe. As she passed an outpost desk in the city room, a stay-at-home-and-glad-of-it reporter asked her: “Suppose you'll run into Bob Casey?" Casey of the News had already reached Europe.
“I suppose so,” said Hazel. “We usually meet at disasters.…”
          Consider the words. Ride back on them a few years…

The promotional ad continues, listing the various disasters/events that Hazel has covered. One of the disasters mentioned is the Texas school explosion.

On March 18, 1937, Bob Casey is down in Mexico on an assignment investigating some Mexican radio stations that are broadcasting ads for medical devices and procedures that had been removed from US airwaves because of false and misleading claims. I suspect he drives north, into Texas, heading for New London.

Hazel's paper charters a plane and flies her down overnight to cover the event.

Both file front page stories the next day, Friday, March 19, 1937:

From The Chicago Daily News
Parents Search Debris; One Boy Is Found Alive
Byline: Robert J. Casey

Overton, Tex. March 19 â€" In every town in this stricken county today lay the shattered bodies of the school children of Overton, Arp, Henderson and Tyler and the once-mad oil towns of Kilgore and Gladewater. They crowded the mortuaries â€" 425 of them â€" victims of yesterday's explosion at the London consolidated school.

Into hospitals and tourist camps and hotels were crowded the maimed and dying as the ambulance trains continued to roll out of the fog and mud of the valley south of Overton.

In the debris of what had been the largest and best-equipped rural school in the country oil field workers swarmed with derricks and steam shovels and tractors searching beneath an unidentifiable pile of bricks and knotted girders for twenty-seven persons, some of whom they hope may still be alive.

And over the hill road from Dallas in a speeding truck fleet came a shipment of some 200 coffins, the largest cargo of its sort ever seen in this section of the country…

From the Chicago American
Many Unidentified, Towns Filled With Child Victims
Byline: Hazel MacDonald

Overton, Tex. March 19 â€" For Thirty miles around here there was scarcely a child beyond fifth grade alive today.

Groaning derricks poked into the heaped ruins of the finest school house in Texas' opulent oil district, bringing up crushed little bodies and parts of bodies to confirm estimates that the casualty list of this worst juvenile disaster in American history totals more than 500.

The children, tossed into the air like so many limp, lifeless dolls by the mysterious blast of yesterday, lie in inert piles now in improvised morgues in a half dozen nearby east Texas towns.

The number of injured was in three-to-five ratio to the number who are beyond the need of hospital care…

Edit 11/16/2013

The school before the explosion:

[imgzoom]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C5TxyMFbkBM/T2XfFcYkorI/AAAAAAAAAYk/OXx5LM_1NQ0/s400/NewLondonHighSchoolBeforeExplosionTOPtb.jpg[/imgzoom]

And a link to a video:

http://www.newlondonschool.org/videos/NLSE_PatheNews.wmv

Edit 11/18/2013:

Late breaking news... Varous newspapers on March 19, 1937:

Hitler Cables Sympathies to Roosevelt Over Blast

Berlin, Germany, March 19 â€" UP â€" Adolf Hitler sent the following cablegram to President Roosevelt today:

“On the occasion of the terrible explosion at New London, Tex., which took so many young lives, I want to assure your excellency of my and the German people's sincere sympathy.                                                 ADOLPH HITLER, German Reichschancellor.”

Blast Appalls Roosevelt

Warm Springs, Ga. March 19 â€" President Roosevelt, appalled by the tragic school explosion at New London, Tex., announced he had ordered the Red Cross and all other government agencies to “stand by and render every assistance” to the little Texas community.

His statement on the Texas tragedy follows:

“I am appalled by the news of the disaster at New London, Tex., in which hundreds of school children lost their lives.

“A few hours ago I dedicated a school building here in Western Georgia with high hope for the future service it could render. Tonight with the rest of the nation I am shocked and can only hope that further information will lessen the scope of this tragedy.

“I have asked the Red Cross and all of the government agencies to stand by and render every assistance in their power to the community to which this shocking tragedy has come.”

Undertaker Tells Horror of Blast - Mangled Remains May Never Be Identified, Says Mortician

Dallas, March 19 â€" UP â€" The most appalling aspects of the London Consolidated School disaster were described today by two Dallas undertakers who cared for some of the twisted bodies of the hundreds of child victims. Jerome Crane said:

“Indescribable is an inadequate word. We went to the Overton funeral home. There were seventy-five bodies there. At least twenty of them never will be identified, unless parents are able to do so from remnants of clothing.

”Barton Beatty and I cared for the bodies of seventeen children between the ages of 10 and 17. They were the most horribly mangled remains of human beings either of us had ever seen…”

Gas Leak is Blamed By Superintendent

New London, March 19 â€" William C. Shaw, superintendent of the New London school, identified one of the bodies recovered from Thursday's explosion in a morgue early Friday.

It was that of his 17- year-old son, Clifton (Sambo) Shaw.

A man of 61, the superintendent seemed to have aged ten years overnight. His hands shook like those of a man suffering palsy. One of them was bandaged, injured in the explosion. His cheeks were flecked with dried blood from lacerations caused by flying glass.

Relatives tried to keep Shaw at home but he defied them. He plodded about the ruins on trembling legs and spoke frankly…

Dallas â€" Coffin makers were swamped with orders for medium sized caskets in which to bury victims of the London Consolidated School tragedy.

So, you all fouled up and let me host another competition. Don't you remember my Coloring Ball? What a disaster! I shall endeavor to turn this Blitz into a disaster, too. Which one, however? So many to choose from... More every day…

The London Blitz was a disaster. But a Blitz Blitz seems, somehow, redundant. Were there any disasters so disastrous that even Hitler might have sent his condolences to the affected nation? Have to be before the war, before he earned his evil reputation, 1930s, maybe? Indeed there was.

It even takes place in a disastrous place, Texas. I know; I'm a “Greenie.” Ponch may be the only good thing about Texas.

March 18, 1937

Criteria will be fairly standard:
     How well will the image work as a game background?
     How well does the image convey the emotions of that moment in time?
     How well does the image work technically?
Go forth into ruin, and destruction, and loss.

If anyone is totally unable to figure out what the heck I'm referring to, post and I shall respond with a bit more information. For now, let it be in the nature of a mystery, a puzzle, if you will.

Edit1:

Got to thinking you folks might not have time to go on a lengthy search, so hints might be in order:

[imgzoom]https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/sites/default/files/public/tslac/exhibits/railroad/other/newlondon.jpg[/imgzoom]

[imgzoom]http://news-journal.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/dd/1dd33a98-d305-520d-b427-57795119b32e/4d8198f4f183e.preview-300.jpg[/imgzoom]

And, since most of us, except Ponch, had the good sense to stay out of Texas, a UK link to look at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114188/Survivor-tells-escaped-school-explosion-killed-293-switching-chairs-classmate.html

It does get discouraging when so few entries show up. I know; look at the keyhole coloring ball I hosted. If it hadn't been for Adeel...

I'll see what I can come up with.

You discover an amoeba endeavoring to consume and assimilate all the dreaded Cow Pox viruses it encounters:

[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/ponchBall1_zpsacef46c6.png[/imgzoom]

OMG, it's spread into the 3D world, too.

http://www.daz3d.com/party-kittenzz-for-genesis-2-female-s

Anian, whatever shall we do?

There is an indication of this being some cow's special day, according to stuff near the bottom of the forum. Therefore, Happy Birthday, Ponch. Also, congrats on winning the just ended Coloring Ball!

I don't know if this qualifies as a Secret Lab? I went looking for a chair that might be suitable, and got distracted by some pictures of 1800s dental offices. At any rate, I started doing some modeling:



I'll probably be revising this, since it's not really a scene.

May not be what you want, but looks like a real chamber of horrors, to me. "Open wide, while I pedal faster."

Chair modeled in Hexagon. Foot operated drill and spit sink modeled in sPatch. It's a Bryce 7 render.

Edit1:

Tried to make it into a scene, of some sort.

[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/blitz1_zps0109e41f.png[/imgzoom]

Don't know if I'm going to do a bit more with this. I'd like to get the drill up into his hand, but not sure how to manage it with the hodgepodge mixture of tools I'm using. And, I did get highjacked here, by a certain movie. Mostly modeled in sPatch. Rendered in Bryce 7. Used FaceShop for an attempt at the dentist's face. Figures are from DAZ Studio and are part of a LowRez package I bought along the way.

I liked ArjOn's Yoda a lot, so he's first. 

Ponch's Igor comes in second. 

Ghost's ghost takes third. 

Also liked Bulbapuks' entry, so it was hard to decide. ArjOn's Ar Lequinn was almost too spooky for this little kid.

Thanks, Selmiak, for the feedback. I got some unexpected results when I tried smoothing the model. I've made the eyes rounder in the current iteration of the model, and I think I can also subdivide the antennas, and round them up a little, too. I've got bones in the antenna, so I can wiggle them, a bit, but was more interested in seeing what the walk looked like. I've got bones in the lower leg segments, too, but didn't use them for this. The stuff I found indicated three legs stay on the ground, in tripod fashion, while the other three move forward, either in unison, or in sequence. This cycle moves them in unison (my inention, anyway).
     I've also heard the robot comment outside the forum, so looks like I should move this model into an SF folder.  ;-)

I'd been trying to rig a bug (Silverfish) that I made in sPatch. Had some problems with my sPatch model, so tried again, this time in Anim8or. Here it is:

[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/testAniBug1_zps564ea410.gif[/imgzoom]

A web search indicates there are two types of walks for this kind of critter. This was one of them. I might try for the other one in a day or so. Mainly concerned about the motion, but if you want to rip apart the model, that's okay, too.