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Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2370 Location: Honkbag

Kinda following on from Hans' post, but not really..

I really like the cel shaded HT headstock in there..
Is that a modified photo, or is it rendered from scratch out of a 3D package?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 11:11 am

Huh? Help me out here, not sure what your asking? What do you mean by "cel shaped"?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 11:27 am

Great Avatar Diz! Where?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 11:38 am

Looe Key - Florida Keys! Week before last years DOA.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2370 Location: Honkbag

in it's simplest form, you could say that a cel shaded object looks 'cartoony', typically has some kind of black detail outline together with a quantized pallete, although it can often be used to more subtle effect (like the banner)
It gets it's name from the animation cels used in traditional cartoon making.

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:01 pm

OK - now I get ya! Can't answer the original question though - but I do see what you mean by "cartoony".

Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 76 Location: Cleveland, OHio USA

I kinda see what you mean, what with that contour and all... but you have to ask yourself this:

does anyone really care? Laughing

Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 3939 Location: Orlando, FL

That is a photograph. It is just light reflecting off of the glossy clearcoat. The inlays are laser cut. Very nice guitars.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2131

DizzyDean wrote:

Looe Key - Florida Keys! Week before last years DOA.

Been diving off the Florida Keys myself but I would say that the diving out of Homestead(Miami) is far better! Clearer and less people in the area...haven't been in a long while though. I grew up in Miami and we went diving/deep sea fishing every weekend...got burnt out on it.

I prefer the mountain trails now Wink

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2370 Location: Honkbag

rochemy wrote:

I kinda see what you mean, what with that contour and all... but you have to ask yourself this:

does anyone really care? Laughing

Probably just me.
A few years back my main hobby was 3D artwork, and when I realised I was spending all my time drawing guitars it was pretty obviously time to put it away and go pick up a guitar again..
I used caligari's Truespace, and had a couple honorable mentions in their monthly image contest:
http://www.caligari.com/gallery/ImagesGallery/2000/May00/image09.html
http://www.caligari.com/Gallery/ImagesGallery/2001/Aug01/image11.asp?Cate=GImages

My last project was a CD cover for a local artist, but it turned into the entire layout, and dealing with the duplication folks. Burnout strikes again...
http://mpire.vg/lisacd/
Having said that, one of my proudest moments was seeing a pile of these CD's for the first time at the release party with those plastic cages and the borders pricetags. And then watching people actually buying it was a trip too.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 5799

Awesome stuff! I was a graphic designer for about 10 years, but it's guys like you that kept me from calling myself a graphic "artist". I just didn't have the right stuff.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 4381 Location: Vaasa, Finland

HOLY OATMEAL YOU GOT SOME SKILL!!! I have done some 3d worx myself, for the game CS... Can you do some texture work for meh?

Its a H&K G11 Proto 7...

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2370 Location: Honkbag

Sorry dude, texturing always gave me fits.

In the end I tried to use procedurals wherever I could since i'm more of a programmer...
Renderman shader scripts are cool.
http://mpire.vg/testarea/wm5.jpg
This one I just passed in the parameter for 'age' and it automatically goes from green to yellow to speckled to brown...
http://mpire.vg/testarea/b06.jpg

Always wondered about working on some game mods, but wasn't very good at low-poly (I used to work for a game developer, that's kinda how I was introduced to this)
The HK looks cool tho.