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# 1 20-02-2004 , 12:11 AM

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Back again. This is another model I've been workin on for a few days. Another project for school. Let me know what you all think.
Still lots of detail to go.

Mike

https://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfoli...mer/sphere.jpg

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# 2 20-02-2004 , 12:15 AM

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Thats wicked cool. Whats it supposed to be?

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# 3 20-02-2004 , 12:19 AM

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It's for an abstract intro to the Emerging Technology video for the 2004 Siggraph confrence this August. All those piston things are going to come out of the main sphere. Then the sphere opens up and projects a video.

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# 4 20-02-2004 , 03:48 AM

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Sounds awsome! Could I see a wire?

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# 5 20-02-2004 , 04:19 AM

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here ya go... The full model is made of both polys and nurbs. Most definatley not a low poly setup. Before cleanup, Im sitting at 175,000 faces. That's counting all the nurbs being converted to polys. By the time im done with all the inside details, I'm aiming for somewhere around 250,000... got to keep the renders under 3 minutes per frame.

https://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfoli.../wireframe.jpg

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# 6 20-02-2004 , 04:25 AM

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Thats awsome. Cant wait to see the animation! user added image

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# 7 20-02-2004 , 10:14 AM

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Looks great!

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# 8 21-02-2004 , 12:19 AM

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Very nice tech ! It will be very intresting to see textured. Good consept.

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# 9 21-02-2004 , 12:37 AM

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wow. that is really nice. my only C+C is... it would be cool to see it animated! user added image

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# 10 24-02-2004 , 04:18 PM

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looks good ...

it reminds me of luke skywalkers lightsaber training droid

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# 11 24-02-2004 , 05:52 PM

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heh...i was thinking more the torture droid that vader introduced to leia.

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# 12 24-02-2004 , 06:20 PM

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You know it reminds me of a detailed shot of the little practice sphere that Luke was fighting blind folded in the first Star Wars.

How do you get the awesome lighting? Is that texture+bump+displacement or just some magic lighting setup?

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675

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# 13 25-02-2004 , 01:32 PM

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Great job

Lots of details, the hole model concept really wicked.

Looking foreward to see it textured, my self love those kind of machinery.
reminds me something i used to work with at a Biotchnology lab user added image

OH yess !!

weld some pixels !!!

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