What's with this picture? Well, it only took 45 minutes to make it. It's a continuation of the previous one. What's the diff? Duh, look at the shirt. The previous shirt is a pullover (I wear pullovers from time to time). A more realistic shirt is the 50% zipper or full zipper. That's kinda what this is. It's not very good, but it's something. Everything starts with something. Add a zipper to the texture, add a collar, and make the undershirt look more realistic and there you go. The lesson? No pullovers! Even my favorite pullovers have a small v in the front. My knowledge of fashion is zilch, but I know that by 2014, I'll be wearing clothes that make me look cool. That rules out all clothing that would fit a 6000 lb gorilla which sadly enough all my clothes do. Don't blame me, I don't buy clothes. Most of my clothes are around five years old, back when I gave a damn (it didn't make a difference, I looked like a dweeb then, I look like a dweeb now).
I deliver! But before I talk about it, see my friend Michael's video. It's thirty minutes long and compressed well to 36 MB split into three parts. Don't worry about slashdot effect. This server is backed by a dual OC-48 connection to the backbone of the internet. And anyways, these CSE majors need practice on how to handle a massive strike of dissent on their webservers. It's better to learn how to cope before it becomes a problem that costs you your cushy admin job, right?
So the plan for tonight? If you're a smart, single, beautiful, young lady who has a liking for an optimistic physicists, the plan is to come over to 5050 7th Ave NE. ^_^ Else, you'll have to just listen up. I was being lazy with this. I didn't change the character model. I didn't change the grenade launcher. I just combined the two and gave it a new skin. What's so cool about that? Really nothing. It means that Scene 5, Page 2 and 3 are coming soon, but not tonight. Tomorrow would be a JF day, but there's a lecture on Nanorods at the UW tomorrow at 3 PM. Factor in sleeping in, training, talking with my housemate, and surfing the web and you'll likely see something like this tomorrow too. The lesson? Texture means a bunch to a secondary model. Just switch the texture and you have a second person. I feel bad saying it, but people are hardly unique. Tomorrow I'll prove that wrong, just watch.
This is a shout out to all you terrorist mod makers (like CounterStrike), if you're looking for a weapons modeler and skinner, I'm offering my services. ^_^ You thought I was for real, didn't you? This is probably the worst model/skin that you've ever seen, right? For two groups of you, this is not the worst that you've ever seen. The first group is those who have not seen any real weapons models. You should go to CounterStrike and check all the weaponry. The second group is those who strive to make their own models/skins and are not very good at modelling/skinning. You have seen works worse than this, haven't you? Your own. Well, I'd like to address this second group and have a peer discussion about how models can be done. It'll be today's lesson. First off, the actual modelling isn't very hard if you know what you're looking for. I knew that this model needed a T with a barrel, a clip, and a shoulder rest. So I did it just by simple extrusion. No problem, but the shape doesn't look very good. Well, a real life model would have helped. I didn't want to steal other artists work and I didn't want to look on the web, so I just thought (since I'm doing a comic) I can abstract it to what I want it to feel like. I kinda like the purple metallic look. I added lines just because I remember that there are divits in an uzi's frame to make it... *shrug* do something or another. So what's wrong with the shape? Well, the T is actually not a 90 degree T, but rather a 85 or so degree T. I took the pic at an angle so you can't see it, but it's there. Something similar that is pretty easy to see is the nose that comes to the barrel at an angle. Why? Because I didn't want the boxy look that most bad modelers get when they try to make it perfectly like the real-life model. Simply, that is not what an uzi looks like. But I went with it. Then for the texture, I just made lines that go around the body. Why? Because that is what I decided. Napoleon said it well when he said something to the sort of: "Doing one thing incorrectly is far better than doing two things that could be correct." Not only are there time constraints, but also conviction. If you are unsure and put half of your weight in true as well as false you are certain to lose. For example Roulette. If you put $50 on Red and $50 on Black, you'll get $100 back on the winner and $0 back on the loser. This gains you nothing except different chips. So you see, we have a dilemma. Do we want to take risks? Of course, walking out your front door is a risk. But do we want to go with a silly design rather than asking our viewers to choose between two designs? I'd say go for the silly design because I have never gotten an e-mail about JF that I didn't ask for.
