POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Blobman 5.0? : Re: Blobman 5.0? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 09:27:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Blobman 5.0?  
From: Batronyx
Date: 14 Oct 2001 22:41:02
Message: <3bca4cbe$1@news.povray.org>
"Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg> wrote in message
news:3bca022b@news.povray.org...
> I was thinking, while using it (v4.2), that it still has a ways to go before
> it's "aesthetic". Right now, it's kinda cartoony... and ugly at that. Have
> you looked a blobman face lately? Eech. Anyway, my point is that everyone
> should pitch in a bit and help make blobman better. Peter Houston hasn't
> POVed in almost a year, and he can't do it all by himself. We need to work
> together to (among other things) refine the features of the face, and give
> the user greater control over them. More poses would also be nice. I'm
> working on a "sitting at the computer" pose, and trying to animate it a bit.
> That would also be great, libraries of movements for blobfolk. Any takers?
> Greg, maybe you would be willing to use what you've has learned with your
> blob people?
>

If it's aesthetics you want I'm in favor of meshes. If you insist on blobs
though then you should check out the '97 irtc "School" round 2nd place winner.
Those are some of the best blob people I've ever seen. The source is included.

http://www.irtc.org/stills/1997-04-30.html

"Plastics" by Lorenzo Quintana Juez

http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-04-30/plastics.jpg
http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-04-30/plastics.zip


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