Sunday, 15 February 2015

Talking Box?

After a rather satisfying breakthrough last night I decided to focus tonight's art efforts on fresh covers for our digital editions. I was hoping to find and hijack a POD service with a preview capable of generating reasonable faux books, but had little success.

Did discover Box Shot 4, but at $300 for ultimate edition it's definitely a future investment and potential Fiverr gig. Decided try some websites and generated the sample below with Online 3D Package, a less than perfect if somewhat humorous faux packaging tool and a couple of random meme samples collected from MemeCenter for "research" purposes.


The search continues...

Quote of the Day: Trust those who seek the truth, never those who claim to have found ~IT~

Friday, 13 February 2015

The kind of shit you get at the end of a long day in front of the monitor?

By no means a natural mathematician, I hardly even understand the meaning of the word equation. (Yes, that was an inside joke. Meaning, get it?) So when it comes to figuring out the arithmetic involved with re-creating chainmail weaves in CG 3D for tutorials the experience can be much like repeatedly bouncing one's head off a marble statue of Pythagoras. To compensate for my lack of knowledge I often create visuals to rationalize  ratios, (Yes, that was another inside joke . Rational numbers, get it?) but I admit the final result is more akin to an abstract digital flower garden than formulas for calculating ratios. I decided it might be a good idea to create a screen capture to help remind me of the relationships of diameter to radius and gauge when creating and recreating a CGI torus objects

Now that the missing link has fallen into place it's time to progress to the next stage of this project... Mwah-ha-ha!

Can you guess what all this mess is going to be?

Proof of concept?



Been a while since doing illustrations and as usual I couldn't find the TXT note with my chart of link proportions. So ended up recreating the work from scratch. What's the final result of this proof of concept going to be? There's only one place where you can find out! Stay tuned! Same chain time, same chain channel!

Thursday, 12 February 2015