Rainbow guilloche So I’ve been learning Excentro for a bit, and it’s equal parts fun and frustration. Some shapes break for reasons I can’t find, and there is a sense of limitation, but guilloche patterns are also an old and very specific art and should be treated with proper subservience. I imagine I’ll run in to cooler things further up the learning curve.
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Rainbow guilloche

So I’ve been learning Excentro for a bit, and it’s equal parts fun and frustration. Some shapes break for reasons I can’t find, and there is a sense of limitation, but guilloche patterns are also an old and very specific art and should be treated with proper subservience. I imagine I’ll run in to cooler things further up the learning curve.

Truckyard Betty Spiker on a supply run in the abandoned territories. It was a rainy Sunday, and for some reason I decided to give Poser another try. I soon remembered why I stayed away: it is a fucking terrible piece of software. Two thirds of the time is spent on correcting errors that pop up for no discernible reason. Under such circumstances, it’s understandable that the user community is generally occupied with different combinations of stock models (here it’s the Trader Vehicle by kalebdaark and Warehouse District by Stonemason, plus clothing props whose creator’s names have gone lost). Making stuff in Poser is really no different from playing with dolls. So nothing in your image is yours, except the intent. To my surprise, and after a metric ton of postwork, it happens occasionally that the resulting image is not completely repulsive. Sort of a snapshot from a story, from the borderland between inspiring circumstance and disconsolate fabrication.
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Truckyard

Betty Spiker on a supply run in the abandoned territories.

It was a rainy Sunday, and for some reason I decided to give Poser another try. I soon remembered why I stayed away: it is a fucking terrible piece of software. Two thirds of the time is spent on correcting errors that pop up for no discernible reason. Under such circumstances, it’s understandable that the user community is generally occupied with different combinations of stock models (here it’s the Trader Vehicle by kalebdaark and Warehouse District by Stonemason, plus clothing props whose creator’s names have gone lost).

Making stuff in Poser is really no different from playing with dolls. So nothing in your image is yours, except the intent.

To my surprise, and after a metric ton of postwork, it happens occasionally that the resulting image is not completely repulsive. Sort of a snapshot from a story, from the borderland between inspiring circumstance and disconsolate fabrication.

More measure-mining Keeping all those measurements in line takes many cups of coffee. I help a friend construct models, drawings and blueprints for a sort of outdoors hot tub. So far it’s going well (except for my teeth-chilling headache yesterday). Manufacturer has found my CAD files viable, too. But I’m still wary of Sketchup. I use it, it’s fun, I have no money or inclination to get into AutoCAD. But Sketchup slips occasionally, if ever so slightly. Once in a while, Sketchup’s snap-to-point feature creates vectors on its own. You can never be fully sure a horizontal line actually is. On a subatomic level (oh well, that’s true of all things). So it works, but don’t bet people’s lives on it. Now for cutting sheet metal, it’s great, of course. Maybe I’ll go back to my old career of large metal sculpture some day.
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More measure-mining

Keeping all those measurements in line takes many cups of coffee.

I help a friend construct models, drawings and blueprints for a sort of outdoors hot tub. So far it’s going well (except for my teeth-chilling headache yesterday). Manufacturer has found my CAD files viable, too.

But I’m still wary of Sketchup. I use it, it’s fun, I have no money or inclination to get into AutoCAD. But Sketchup slips occasionally, if ever so slightly. Once in a while, Sketchup’s snap-to-point feature creates vectors on its own. You can never be fully sure a horizontal line actually is. On a subatomic level (oh well, that’s true of all things). So it works, but don’t bet people’s lives on it.

Now for cutting sheet metal, it’s great, of course. Maybe I’ll go back to my old career of large metal sculpture some day.

Veldt Lake Another exercise in horribly sunny weather. The idea of being stuck in a place where… No, actually, it’s a picture of monotony. My last month, confined to the sofa with my foot in a cast. All rest and recuperation. Which, in the end, can drive you quite mad. So here’s a beautiful peaceful spot, except you won’t get no shade if you ain’t in for a muddy swim.
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Veldt Lake

Another exercise in horribly sunny weather. The idea of being stuck in a place where… No, actually, it’s a picture of monotony. My last month, confined to the sofa with my foot in a cast. All rest and recuperation. Which, in the end, can drive you quite mad.

So here’s a beautiful peaceful spot, except you won’t get no shade if you ain’t in for a muddy swim.

Plateu Island The inevitable Beginner’s Island. When you start out trying to learn 3D modeling, especially in the amateur variety of programs that invite you to build landscapes (sort of the opposite of the all-serious, all-professional, no-funny-stuff CAD segment), chances are you’ll make an island. A small chunk of land in a nondescript ocean that impresses almost nobody. Still, you know, Böcklin.
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Plateu Island

The inevitable Beginner’s Island. When you start out trying to learn 3D modeling, especially in the amateur variety of programs that invite you to build landscapes (sort of the opposite of the all-serious, all-professional, no-funny-stuff CAD segment), chances are you’ll make an island. A small chunk of land in a nondescript ocean that impresses almost nobody.

Still, you know, Böcklin.

Craters Yeah, this one turned out alright. I couldn’t decide if the water should be murky, steel blue reflective or blurrily transparent. And grass doesn’t really grow like that. The need for something else than nature-stuffs is becoming apparent. I’ll have to go back and create some buildnings, rusty pipes, telephone poles, an abandoned car. Maybe a pumping station. Especially since that was the topic, originally: how what we call “nature” and what might be called “remnants of human presence” blend into what I perceive as my kind of nature. But so far, these last few days, things are going well in my virtual world creating apparatus.
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Craters

Yeah, this one turned out alright. I couldn’t decide if the water should be murky, steel blue reflective or blurrily transparent. And grass doesn’t really grow like that.

The need for something else than nature-stuffs is becoming apparent. I’ll have to go back and create some buildnings, rusty pipes, telephone poles, an abandoned car. Maybe a pumping station.

Especially since that was the topic, originally: how what we call “nature” and what might be called “remnants of human presence” blend into what I perceive as my kind of nature.

But so far, these last few days, things are going well in my virtual world creating apparatus.