This isn't just a lesson, it's a bunch of them. I guess I'll give you a bit of each. The first is the computer. My vision of the future is not too bright in JF, you see. Computers still have boxes for the processor, HD, video card, sound card, etc. Most visionaries (including myself) believe that computers in the future will be light as a feather, smaller than a quarter, and faster than a Cray. Well, perhaps with nanotech, but in the pre-nanotech world of JF, we're going try to keep our feet on the ground. Of course, that box is a 1 TerraHertz 256-bit processor, 5 GB of RAM, with a 20 TerraByte HD. It runs on AltSci Thin Client OS, Business Edition. It's running AltSci Network Status viewer. It's a simplified map of the world and their internet connections. But anyway, it's of little importance. In Scene 4, Jav will just look at it and look away. The Wall, floor, door, window, and ceiling is a perlin texture made by Corel Draw. The window is pretty cool. It's transparent. The third picture is from the outside looking into the room. The perlin texture makes the other side look textured. A nice effect. The posters on the wall are actually pictures taken by my webcam of my walls. I have eleven posters in my actual room. I didn't want the other six because they aren't as dear to me as those five. Notice the glare on the Cowboy Bebop poster and the Neon Genesis Evangelion poster. It actually looks good rather than bad. However, in motion, it doesn't look as good. Not only that, but selling pictures of those pictures is illegal I gather, so I'm going to have to replace those before I do the anime, but details.. Next is my bed and pile of clothes. You see, a room without a pile of clothes and without a closet implies that a person doesn't change clothes. Jav does change clothes and thus he has a pile of clothes. It's kind hard to do that in low poly, but I just took a 3 level box, rotated each level, and moved each vertex a bit. It looks decent enough, I think. If I was a perfectionist, I'd model actual shirts and pants in 3d and wrinkle them up in a pile, but I'm not. Next, the bed is pretty simple. Another extruded box as you may have guessed. Extrude, squish, extrude, squish is what I always say. A bit of luck made it look like there's actually a top layer in picture 2.
The Finale to Scene 3: Page 3! I sure do hope you like it. It's the first JF page with non 3d art on it. Notice that Sensei's Cousin's Grandaughter is not 3d. I wanted to use one of my Making Of vector graphics because it is pretty decent. You won't think less of me will you? Secondly, this picture is dated. And where does it come from? It's a mental image projected from Sensei to Jav. Nothing magical, but they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I contend that a few well chosen words can be worth more than a picture. And thus here is the explaination of this picture. Nice, huh? Next up is the other pictures. Boxes 1, 2, 4, and 8 were done at the same time Scene 3 Page 2 was done. Look back and you'll see. The other three were done today. That's mainly because the latest three weren't possible before last night. I finished that character last night as you'd know if you keep up with Making Of series. Tonight is the first night in Forty or so nights that I will not do Making Of. I decided that school is more important tonight. If you like, this will be the making of and tomorrow I'll give you something spectacular. ^-^
UPDATE! I downloaded a little thing called bbMPeG aka AVI2MPG2 from Digital Digest. so now it's a small DivX movie! In fact, it's tiny.Download the low-quality movie or watch it here.
This picture is pretty nice, right? A young Japanese schoolgirl. It's not too erotic, but a hardcore pedo might find it appealing. I don't mind much. More on this in the next paragraph. Okay, this is a cool picture because it uses a bit of shading and is part of Javantea's Fate Scene 3, Page 3. Woot. That means that Scene 3 Page 3 is 2/3 done. I'll likely finish it around Jan 1, 2002. The shading is today's lesson. The breast shadowing I remembered from a nice little picture that I downloaded years ago. The sharp edge (black outline) of the shadow really helps it a lot. Then I thought that it'd be nice to have shadowing elsewhere. I thought a bit about the dress and went to work on it. People who know me better have seen my "Got Love" mural depicting two young girls in skirts and Jav saying the title and "Try it, you'll like it." The mural was supposed to also include a car, but I broke down before I could draw a successful car at that angle. So I'm an expert in skirts. Skirts are designed as follows: a piece of rectangular fabric is folded 20-100 times. At the top, the fabric is sewn into a circle. At the bottom, it is folded under and sewn. A zipper is usually added to the back. The top is usually snug to belly button area. How do I know this? Errm, I watch a lot of anime... Sailor Moon specifically. ^-^ "Jim, my nerd-detector is going crazy, we must have a live one!" Next, the ribbon's shading isn't actually shading, it's highlighting, but anyway, it's just 100% white on 10% Black. I tried to think of the right, left, top, bottom, front, and back. Which of these would be a correct position for a highlight? Well, I decided that it'd be front, top, and center. That's where there'd be a bulge in the ribbon, so that where I decided it would highlight. It just seemed right to me. You decide.
