in article 3ddd5ab8@news.povray.org, Peter Hertel at
peter@hertel**NOSPAM**.no wrote on 21/11/02 9:31 pm:

> Wow :) Must be the first time someone asks _me_ about modelling technices,
> thanks Fidel! That felt good! ;)

I am glad to know that.

> They are all handcoded.
> Legs are moved with a small walking macro I did.
> Neck is cylinders and spheres along a spline. It's way faster than using
> sphere_sweeps and works pretty well here.
> Eye lid is made up of clipped sphere and torus, which then is rotated to
> make it blink.

After looking at the movie again, I thought you used a sphere_sweep for the
legs, but now I know it wasn't. The creatures look really cool. They are
simple but very cool.
The eyes blinking just gave an idea for an old character I was modelling. I
just didn't know how to create the blinking effect. but now thanks to your
explanation I know. Thanks a lot.
I had never tried the clipped_by statement, so I'll have a look at it.

> Here is the code, guess it explains it better..

Thanks for the code. It is going to be really helpful. Keep going with the
animation. I looks really cool. How far are you from finishing it? And how
long is the animation going to be?
It rocks dude!

All the best

Fidel.

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Enjoyed your animation. As mentioned by others,
it wasn't obvious that the red thing was eating the
others. You have the camera moving quite a bit,
which could be effective, but in the beginning,
when you brought it right up to one of the walking
things, you really do well to grab the viewer's attention,
but the red thing eats one of aliens behind that one.
I think it would have had more impact to eat the one
that has the viewer's attention.
=Bob=

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> You have the camera moving quite a bit,
> which could be effective, but in the beginning,
> when you brought it right up to one of the walking
> things, you really do well to grab the viewer's attention,
> but the red thing eats one of aliens behind that one.
> I think it would have had more impact to eat the one
> that has the viewer's attention.

Good point!

Make the camera start at a distance and just as it gets close.. blamo down
comes the red thing!

Now perhaps it could also then cause some of the other things to pause and
look in fear in that direction?

I like the way the camera shudders with the impact too... :)

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> > You have the camera moving quite a bit,
> > which could be effective, but in the beginning,
> > when you brought it right up to one of the walking
> > things, you really do well to grab the viewer's attention,
> > but the red thing eats one of aliens behind that one.
> > I think it would have had more impact to eat the one
> > that has the viewer's attention.
>
> Good point!
>
> Make the camera start at a distance and just as it gets close.. blamo down
> comes the red thing!
Thanks for the replies, I'll re-do the camera movement and re-render
sometime this week.

> Now perhaps it could also then cause some of the other things to pause and
> look in fear in that direction?
These aliens have no brains, nor ears, so they can neither understand, feel
or hear the other ones get eaten..
(Meaning I didn't model them capable of doing stuff like that :)

> I like the way the camera shudders with the impact too... :)
>
Glad you like it :) It's very simple, if anyone is interested, I can post
the source..

-Peter

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<snip>
> After looking at the movie again, I thought you used a sphere_sweep for
the
> legs, but now I know it wasn't. The creatures look really cool. They are
> simple but very cool.
Thank you!

> The eyes blinking just gave an idea for an old character I was modelling.
I
> just didn't know how to create the blinking effect. but now thanks to your
> explanation I know. Thanks a lot.
> I had never tried the clipped_by statement, so I'll have a look at it.
clipped_by was very useful in this situation. The docs explains it better
than me..

> Thanks for the code. It is going to be really helpful. Keep going with the
> animation. I looks really cool. How far are you from finishing it? And how
> long is the animation going to be?
This is scene01, I've done most of scene03, just have to work on the
enviroment, and extend it a little..
I'm planning five or six scenes. And I hope to make the animation a couple
of minutes long, I doubt it will be so much as 5 minutes long though..

> It rocks dude!
=)

-Peter

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