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Post by coutelier on Jan 27, 2010 19:22:46 GMT 1
So, I finally got around to making my first space ship, or Star Engine. Obviously just made by sticking together some steam engine and rocket parts:
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Jan 28, 2010 1:55:49 GMT 1
I see what you mean. it does looking like the boiler off the Flying Scotsman. So if that's the engine where's the passenger's and crew's quarters?
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Post by Commandingtripod on Jan 28, 2010 3:45:51 GMT 1
Not too bad, what did you make it in?
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Post by David Faltskog on Jan 28, 2010 18:49:43 GMT 1
Very cool Looks like something the late great Fred Dibnah might have knocked up in his workshed
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Post by coutelier on Jan 30, 2010 20:39:31 GMT 1
Well, it's obviously not all engine inside the cylinder. Do you see at about in the middle were there are four pipes going round to the top and then not attaching to anything... I'm thinking that should be some sort of observation dome This is done in Poser/UVMapper. For this particular Engine literally all I've done is taken parts from some other models and stuck them together. Very cool Looks like something the late great Fred Dibnah might have knocked up in his workshed Well, that's the idea. All of my nephews have gone through a phase of being fascinated by big steam engines. I did too... although I grew out of it. Guess I'm looking to rekindle that old childhood love
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Jan 31, 2010 3:54:44 GMT 1
I like it, it's looking good
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Post by coutelier on Jun 21, 2010 14:56:30 GMT 1
It's a good job I didn't go and tell too many people about my site... at least I don't think I did. Anyway, I'm in the process of rewriting some things for hopefully the final. If you don't mind being spoiled I could go ahead and give you the general outline of what happens if you want. In the meantime, I recently started a page on DeviantArt as well. Mostly fantasy fan art. Some 40k stuff (well... one, actually. But I'll probably do more.) Anyway, that's all here: coutelier.deviantart.comI should really stop writing fan fiction and concentrate on original... I've just being doing it for a while now and sort of feel obligated to the people who read it.
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Post by coutelier on Jun 22, 2010 12:39:03 GMT 1
Anyway, this is basically the gist of what the story is about. If you would rather wait to find out after I've posted all of it then press back on your browser now (although the way things have been going so far you could be waiting a long time):
The passage at the start is pretty much paraphrased from an old book on British Folklore and Myths. It describes how elves and fairies have evolved in stories. In ye olde, they were usually cruel, evil creatures who would seduce you and steal babies. But by the time the industrial revolution started things had started to change and the elves and fairies started to change into good guys, culminating in Tolkien and modern fantasy elves being wise and ancient and pretty people.
That's pretty much what this is about. The first ELFs were out of control and turned against the humans... of course everyone has forgotten that now. Other many 'generations' of refinement they were tamed and became as they are now, more obediant and childlike. This is called 'neoteny' and is what happens when we breed animals like dogs; we selected the least aggressive animals, and it so happens that the least aggressive animals are the ones with the most 'juvenile' features. That's why most adult dogs look like puppy wolfs... we didn't really intend that, its just how it turned out. Anyway, that's why in the prologue he sees a statue of a wolf (it's a clue!).
Anyway, ELFs may be tame now but those early experiments didn't go away. They escaped and started spreading chaos and disorder around. They can't breed, but they found a way to overwrite human DNA with their own with a type of virus... but it only works on children. They didn't cause 'the ruin', but they knew it was going to happen and went into hibernation. And now they're awakening... just as Charon and Jen and some of other 'good' ELFs are planning to earn freedom for their kind via a peaceful revolution.
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Post by coutelier on Jun 30, 2010 1:52:01 GMT 1
Here is one of the new pictures I've been doing. I feel I'm getting better at this... I can use lights a little better now: This is all done in Poser 7 and Photoshop, using the free planet prop and maps from RuntimeDNA, www.runtimedna.com/forum/downloads.php?do=cat&id=17, and a spacey background from Renderosity.com. The two actual spaceships are made by me chopping up several models of old trains and spaceships and gluing them them back together. This and some other new and updated pictures with descriptions are on DeviantART as well, coutelier.deviantart.com/gallery/#Star-Engine.
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Jun 30, 2010 22:46:55 GMT 1
Nice work, I like the three engines in the distance, they look like steam locomotive boilers.
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Post by coutelier on Jul 2, 2010 19:26:56 GMT 1
Nice work, I like the three engines in the distance, they look like steam locomotive boilers. The models are very low-res though (even more so than the ones in the foreground, if thats conceivable)... which is why they're in the distance. I do like those steam trains that have the large plates either side at the front... don't know what they're for but it looks good Anyway, here's another picture. I've started experimenting with different ways of doing laser/plasma beams and explosions in Photoshop:
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Jul 2, 2010 22:06:53 GMT 1
Very nice! the laser looks good! I would expect to see more of an explosion, fragments of torn metal and flames as the oxygen burns off.
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Post by mrgrotey on Jul 3, 2010 10:34:23 GMT 1
They are attacking themselves?
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Post by coutelier on Jul 3, 2010 13:57:34 GMT 1
Very nice! the laser looks good! I would expect to see more of an explosion, fragments of torn metal and flames as the oxygen burns off. Thanks. I was trying to find a script to make objects 'explode' (or make groups of vertices fo flying off in random directions), but... well, I didn't find it so I wasn't sure how to make the engine blow up. In the end, the exploding vessel is actually two vessels intersecting each other. I layered and erased the front/back in Photoshop. I'll keep looking for that script, if it exists and I didn't just dream it. I suppose I could also use UVmapper to make random groups out of the polygons and then I can separate them. They are attacking themselves? Well, I'm assuming the vessel being attacked is a pirate vessel or has been boarded and taken over by some group somehow, or the crew have mutinied...
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Post by mrgrotey on Jul 3, 2010 20:24:52 GMT 1
What software do you use mate?
[edit] ah dont worry, poser, just saw it.
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