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#1 2006-03-23 12:49 am
Making Spaceships From Aspirin Bottles and Toilet items Part 3
Part 3 of my "Making Spaceships From Aspirin Bottles and Toilet Items" is up for those who read part 1 and 2 (posted here previously):
http://www.lyzrdstomp.com/index.php?opt … p;Itemid=1
It's all about making original science fiction props, vehicles and spaceships from household items (like the aforementioned aspirin bottles and toilet items).
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#2 2006-03-23 1:46 am
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Re: Making Spaceships From Aspirin Bottles and Toilet items Part 3
Thats awesome. But I think he overdid some things. Its much cheaper and faster to build a 3D model then a 10,000 part monstrosity.
"After all, it's not that awful, in Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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#3 2006-03-23 6:54 am
Re: Making Spaceships From Aspirin Bottles and Toilet items Part 3
Greywolf wrote:
Thats awesome. But I think he overdid some things. Its much cheaper and faster to build a 3D model then a 10,000 part monstrosity.
Thanks for the comment.
There's something about having a physical real world model in your hands as opposed to a render from a 3D program (don't get me wrong-I love 3D (been using Lightwave for several years). But you really can put as much time into a detailed 3D model as you can a scratchbuilt/kitbashed physical model).
Besides, if you're talking about props, it's really difficult (impossible?) to composite someone carrying a 3D blaster rifle thru an entire feature-length film. Just build 'em a physical one.
I think it's the craft of the thing that makes real-world modeling appealing, not whether it's cheaper and faster.
Last edited by ivanjs (2006-03-23 6:58 am)
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#4 2006-03-23 8:37 am
Re: Making Spaceships From Aspirin Bottles and Toilet items Part 3
ivanjs wrote:
I think it's the craft of the thing that makes real-world modeling appealing, not whether it's cheaper and faster.
Agreed. Very nice work!
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