"Mike Miller" <mil### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > "Mike Miller" <mil### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks BE.
> > Thank _you_, Mike.
> > It's been great see all of the sketches, development, WIPs, and renders.
> >
> > > I'll set up a page on my website for this current project 'pump house' and post
> > > here with any news or updates. I found my original concept sketches and the
> > > Collada/Lumion files. I'll take some screen grabs of this model and post along
> > > with my sketches and images I gathered for reference & inspiration. I always
> > > pull images and sketch* what I can before I get too far into modeling. I built
> > > the first model in Revit and exported it to Unity and Lumion for animations and
> > > visuals.
> >
> > Yes.  I think that "storyboarding" or flowcharting how you go from initial idea
> > to final render would do much to dispel the "magic" of how such final renders
> > come into being.
> >
> > You don't just open up a text editor and start typing out SDL.
> > (Well, _I_ do a lot of times . . .)
> > Showing all of the sketches and modelers and conversion utilities, and 3rd party
> > software that gets used in preparation for a final POV-Ray render, and then
> > maybe even post-render processing would be a master class in what you do so
> > well.
> >
> > > .... I'm also thinking
> > > about camera path animations and how to break a scene down into manageable
> > > parts.
> >
> > Yeah - that's always another layer of challenges which have their own solutions.
> >
> > - BE
>
> Thanks, BE
> I just posted some concept sketches for this POV piece along with images of my
> past models to my web. I'll do have a 'plan of attack' to make this happen in
> POV and will put a bullet-list together.
> miller

I've added some progress images to my Pump House page and a bullet list of
processes. I was able to get a temp license for Revit and extracted the CAD and
3D models I wanted before starting the POV model. I'll start on the main
flywheel and mounts first and post progress as I go.
miller

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