Have you ever done animations? And some reminiscing...

[Groffa]

[edit]Split to keep original renders thread clean! RL[/edit]
Have you ever done any animations of the these things?

[Rob Lang]

Sort of. Years ago (Byrn - when was it? 1999? Was I in Halls of Residence then?) I made a simple little animation where two hit men are out being problem solvers. It was a bit Pulp Fiction in a style of the animation from the '' computer game. I wanted to show how Gaia was immersive and what flying through a Mex City might be like.

Of course, we didn't have YouTube back then. I might staple the two short videos together and get it uploaded to YouTube for fun. Byrn and I did the voice acting - although Byrn was much better because I was too excited about the whole thing. Having said that, my ability to animate will be much better now (because I have better hardware and modelling skills) and I am not sure I would want people to see very early efforts and judge Icar by it!

There are a few animated shorts on my hard-drive but most of them are just studies (for example, how does a Droid walk?). There was also a Flash tool made by a good friend of mine that rotated the weapons so that you can see them in 3D. Of course, the models will be all out of date now.

[misterecho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPg_K7a_Uk

[Byrn]

You were in hall mate - St. Pats. But it was definatley '98 or early '99, as that was the year you upgraded from your P166 to a PII 400, and PIIIs weren't out yet...

Not that its sad to remeber that!

[Rob Lang]

[Byrn]

Ah yes, I remember borrowing it on the understanding it would not be overclocked

I'd be fine with that mate, although its worth saying that the dialogue wasn't Pulp Fiction derived, it was pretty much a direct rip. To Bombtrack IIRC...

Didn't you model the Vulture pretty much for that video?

I remember an earlier video of a stubwing vs. droid cruiser, would have been late '97, you showed me it before the first trip to Valbonne's...

[Rob Lang]

Ooooh,the fly-by? With the Stub-Wing starting inside the Battleship? I'd forgotten about that.

Now that would have been really old school because I only started Lightwaving in 1996.

[Byrn]

Sounds right

What really feels odd is that when I first played (in TOWHHOYE) we must have been using mahooses, as the cataclyst and qaxam 6 only came in for the loogahbaroogah gencon demo game IIRC?

Anyway, this is more historial musings than completed images :P

[Rob Lang]

[Byrn]

Not admin enough to give it a descriptive title though :P

The Manchester con had a bigger setup, true, but I'm 99% sure the standard SF chars (torch, doc, fixit, etc) were generated for loogahbaroogah. IIRC the weapon sheets were A5 double sided unfolded for that, and laminated which, in retrospect, I find rather worrying :P

Come to think of it, that must be right. You had us select chars for The Fear at Loughborough, and I think that was the first team to have weapon sheets as seperates... I still have Tarrone's original second sheet, and the extra one to record further guns