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MMC-Feb-Strange Yesterday Inventions
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Post by jamesmc // Feb 2, 2009, 8:10am
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Back in medieval England, people were entertained by 'playing cards' for amusment and to settle bets. Before the introduction of the printing press, playing cards had to made by hand. The methods were unorthodox and inconsistent.
Here, I have the start of a WIP of a card making factory for the Jester Cards.
Real Jesters were used and flattened out on laminate tiling in a cruel, but rather efficient manner.
I have yet to add many things to the "Jester Flattening Factory' include balls for the Jester (that is balls that go on the shoes and hat :D)
It seems the addition of the Jester Card made the play even more intriguing. However, gather Kings, Queens and Knights for the "Jacks" to be flattened out in a similar manner was to say the least quite challenging. |
Post by TomG // Feb 2, 2009, 8:20am
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Neat surreal idea! Looking forward to seeing more. Poor jesters.
Tom |
Post by rjeff // Feb 2, 2009, 9:06am
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Leave it to you James to come up with that idea...you have some wild ideas in that head of yours. |
Post by 3dfrog // Feb 2, 2009, 11:06am
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hehehe that is very funny. I like the looks of that press :) |
Post by Nez // Feb 2, 2009, 11:05pm
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A cool idea (I've not yeven seen what the MMC challenge is this month yet, but I like your entry...) - the press looks great, the only thing that seems a shame right now is that some of the detail is being lost on th eupper section against the texture of the walls - being very similar in colour, it's difficult to distinguish what's going on, but I'm sure that you can sort that with a bit of texture/colour tweaking. |
Post by Steinie // Feb 3, 2009, 4:22am
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Of all the things you have created this is my favorite!
Is this a manual press and if so where are the handles?
The lighting is a little too dark I would get an ambient light into the
scene.
I'm sure you'll bring out the best (or worst) with this one.:) |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 13, 2009, 7:51am
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Still in the construction mode and have been sidetracked one way and then the other.
Decided that every good "jester-flattening" factory needs a tortoise 'hench'man' to bite onto the wooden stave that cranks the flattening plate down on said jester.
The tortoise needs some beak work and there are still placeholders and unfinished texturing. |
Post by Steinie // Feb 13, 2009, 8:53am
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What a slow demise but hey it's for the Queen right?;)
Is this a spoof on "flatten history" in tS?
Funny stuff. |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 13, 2009, 9:09am
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What a slow demise but hey it's for the Queen right?;)
Is this a spoof on "flatten history" in tS?
Funny stuff.
Yes, little did the Jesters know what know what the Queen meant by being "pressed" into service. |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 13, 2009, 9:32pm
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Some minor color texture to the 'ancient machine' "Jester Presser'. |
Post by marcel // Feb 13, 2009, 10:29pm
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Hi, you can help me to construct the machine that built my robots (in my thread) with your machine. :D |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 14, 2009, 12:21pm
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Hmmm, back to square one on texturing....
I made some layers when I added a room structure.
When I changed the name of some items in a layer, it added textures (bumps) and other stuff from something I did yesterday about 8 scenes ago!
Even re-loading doesn't help nor does going back to default mode.
asdf... |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 15, 2009, 8:44am
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Added an rpg style room, candle holders and chess piece. Will add a few more things before compositing in the post production facilities. |
Post by tahnoak // Feb 15, 2009, 9:52am
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Nice touch with the RPG style room. |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 15, 2009, 8:04pm
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Some more "stuff" added, minor texturing... |
Post by kena // Feb 15, 2009, 9:23pm
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Nice textures there! |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 15, 2009, 10:17pm
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Just experimenting with some splattering and etching to try an aged painting effect. :) |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 16, 2009, 10:01pm
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Added some mural art on one wall and ceiling (ceiling needs lighting.) Played with some bumps and some minor stuff. |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 17, 2009, 9:23am
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More stuff added, scene from the WorksSpace side of tS7.6
BTW, I forgot where to turn off lights and widgets on WS side? Where is it in 7.6? |
Post by marcel // Feb 17, 2009, 9:36am
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Hmmm, back to square one on texturing....
I made some layers when I added a room structure.
When I changed the name of some items in a layer, it added textures (bumps) and other stuff from something I did yesterday about 8 scenes ago!
Even re-loading doesn't help nor does going back to default mode.
asdf...
when i do a copy of a scene with "save as" to change the name, textures and bump can change from other objets. since i know that, when i "save as" i immediatly close the scene and reopen the new scene . the new scene is ok.
If i "save as" and save again without close the scene between both operations, the scene is bad. It is a bug. Hope you understand my "english" . |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 18, 2009, 9:48pm
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Added a fat jester henchman to the scene. |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 18, 2009, 10:09pm
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Forgot the fat jester henchman's axe. :) |
Post by kena // Feb 19, 2009, 5:12am
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It's looking good. However your white table needs to be toned down to match the rest, and something looks wrong about the bos in the front.... do you have it's wireframe active? |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 19, 2009, 6:18am
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It's looking good. However your white table needs to be toned down to match the rest, and something looks wrong about the bos in the front.... do you have it's wireframe active?
Yeah, the table is not textured for Workspace as it was assembled on the model side with some sort of metal material (forgot which one).
The bos=box? Yeah they are warped. Not sure how that happened, but probably when tS crashed and eliminated every last one of the shaders from the scene and made three scene files disappear. |
Post by Mr. 3d // Feb 19, 2009, 6:33am
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It looks good James ! I like your henchman...kind of reminds me of the "Puppet Master" ! |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 19, 2009, 7:18am
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Of course, every bizarre work needs a guide. Here's an illustrated guide to the Jester Flattening Press room. :) |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 19, 2009, 5:54pm
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Jester Press Room - Comic Book Style Art. :) |
Post by TomG // Feb 20, 2009, 4:59am
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Looks good in cartoon style! Was that a post process effect?
Thanks!
Tom |
Post by jamesmc // Feb 20, 2009, 5:10am
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Looks good in cartoon style! Was that a post process effect?
Thanks!
Tom
Thanks!
Ya, PhotoShop - Filter>Texture> grain>speckle I believe, if I remember that correctly.
I have my flash plug-in for tS somewhere, haven't installed it since tS6.6, should try and install it. |
Post by TomG // Feb 20, 2009, 8:16am
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The Flash plug-in does still work under tS7.6 if I remember right from my tests (it was some time ago). Anyway you have a great effect here all the same :)
Tom |
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