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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Carl on May 11, 2004, 11:51:00 pm
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After months of work, hundreds of painstakingly careful measurements, many watched and re-watched (and re-re-re-re ect. watched) video clips carefully studied, and detailed video and toy comparisons, I give you the most complex and accurate fully animatable 3D model I've ever produced:
The Tyrannosaurus Dinozord
(http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Carltheshivan/pst04.jpg)
Composite
(http://www.rangerbase.com/albums/userpics/pst04.jpg)
Final Tally:
33,661 polygons, 9 materials, and countless hundreds of sub-objects.
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oh, my god, it's perfictly compter generated reproduction of horable tacky campyness
I am amaized, impressed, and horrified at the same time :wtf:
...good job by the way
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Cool! Looks very real :D in a CG animated sense
The model kind of resembles that show I use to watch... :nervous: sometimes, Power Ranges one I think
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Looks good :yes:
What I want to know is, does it have two legs, or doesn't it? :p Is it Tyrannosauras Gimp? :p
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uhh...it has 2 legs in all the pics.
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Really?
*Takes a closer look*
Indeed you are right. I didn't notice it lifting up its right leg :nervous:
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Mmh, now I surely understand why you don't like anime :p
good job anyway. Now work on the map to make a photorealistic one ;)
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lol
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Now do Grimlock or Zoidzilla. If you're going to do "tacky campyness" as bob put it at least do good tacky campyness :D
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:lol: That is brilliant. That composite looks exactly like the toy I used to have (Damn right I had the toy, and all the other zords except the Sauropod one. I was a fanboy and a half back in the day :D)
Do the mammoth next if you're planning to keep going :nod:
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Errr.... Looks awesome technically, but what's this from? :nervous:
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Is this what you're planning on sending against the Sathanas?
:)
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Errr.... Looks awesome technically, but what's this from? :nervous:
Looks like a Zoid to me.
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Originally posted by Xelion
Cool! Looks very real :D in a CG animated sense
The model kind of resembles that show I use to watch... :nervous: sometimes, Power Ranges one I think
Don't mention the Rangers. The first episode aired in the UK on October 2nd 1993. How do I know this? Because it was the morning after my 21st birthday. All I can remember from that morning is someone saying 'Oh my God, I got off with a 15 year old!', and watching Power Rangers in paralysed disbelief ;)
Excellent work Carl, it really does fit into the whole 'theme' perfectly :)
Edit : And for those of you who are wondering 'getting off' in the UK simply means lots of kissing etc, or at least it did 11 years ago ;)
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Really amazing Carl :nod:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Errr.... Looks awesome technically, but what's this from? :nervous:
Power Rangers, guys! Get with it! (http://dinozord03.tripod.com/zords.htm) :D
Awesome model, Carl. Way better than the actual TV show. Love the composite, too. ;)
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Actually, Steak, those pics are from the new season, 11 years ahead of the one i made. here's a pic of the original:
(http://www.rovang.org/wg/pics/tyrannosaurus.jpg)
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Originally posted by Carl
Actually, Steak, those pics are from the new season, 11 years ahead of the one i made. here's a pic of the original:
(http://www.rovang.org/wg/pics/tyrannosaurus.jpg)
the ol' low-tech guy in a 'mech suit.;)
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Ah yes, the ....PR's tacky man-in-plastic-suit T-Rex. I could wax on about the flaws of that piece of FX....
Good workmanship Carl, though you could have chosen something, a little better.:nervous:
The Zoid T-Rex's (There's at least three diffrent type!:wtf: )would seriously own that clunker though. And they'll look better while doing it. :D(apart from those funny caps on the joints...:nervous: )
Would post an excellent CGI of one, but Angelfire is no longer working the way it did...:mad::mad2::mad:
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ROFLMAO.
The bad part is, I recognised it immediately. Even after not watching the show in the last, well, five and a half years......
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Originally posted by Raptor
The Zoid T-Rex's (There's at least three diffrent type!:wtf: )would seriously own that clunker though. And they'll look better while doing it. :D(apart from those funny caps on the joints...:nervous: )
Which is why I suggested doing Zoidzilla instead. Or even more scary, the Black Zoid from the comic. Anything which can beat Zoidzilla not just once but twice is scary.
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YAAARRR!
We need dinosaur ninja zombie pirates.
But good job! (This should be included as an extra model in latests Media VP. Something like SJ Tyrannos. Let the new FREDders be amazed.)
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Originally posted by Bobboau
oh, my god, it's perfictly compter generated reproduction of horable tacky campyness
I am amaized, impressed, and horrified at the same time :wtf:
...good job by the way
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I'm just mostly horrified... :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:
(Good job!)
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Originally posted by Raptor
Ah yes, the ....PR's tacky man-in-plastic-suit T-Rex. I could wax on about the flaws of that piece of FX....
if you look closely (as i had to in order to make this), you will find that they use a guy in a suit for the actual fighting, but for everything else they use an animotronic model. the two are quite dissimilar and easy identrified by differences in fine detail, and most prominently, the forearms, which are much bigger in the suit than the model. (the suit's arms have to be bigger in order for the actor's arms to fit inside them)
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Yeah, I loved laughing at their tacky fight scenes. It was all over when the Zords (of whichever Power Ranger universe) called down their superweapons from the sky, though. :p
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power rangers- lets fight this human sized monster,
/*fights monster of roughly human size*/
/*get's beaten down by the monster's specal atack*/
/*find's monster's weakness and beat's monster down*/
monster- "ah I'm about to die!"
evil overlord whom sent monster into the world- take this thing that makes you realy freaking huge, ther's no way the power ranges can stop you then.
monster-/*takes thing*//*get's big*/'hey look at me I'm as big as this building, you can tell becase I'm moveing slowly. I think I'm going to blow some buildings up now for the hell of it /*blows up some buildings*/'
power rangers- "ah, let's get our realy realy big robot made of sevral smaller robots!"
one of the power rangers-"hey why don't we ever try to fight with just the robots in there seprate forms?"
other power rangers- /*looks at the diferent one oddly*/...
"DO NOT QUESTION!!"
in big robot made of sevral smaller robots-"hey big monster thanks for not atacking during our long repetitive being made into a big giant robot sceen we realy would have been screwed had you tryed something other than makeing odd sounds of forced glee as you blew up buildings for no reason"
monster-"no problem"
/*fight*/
/*power rangers get there asses handed to them*/
power rangers-"hmm, we need the big ubber weapon. UBBER WEAPON ACTIVATE"
/*repetitive shot of ubber weapon being summoned*/
power rangers- /*uses ubber weapon*/
monster-/*dies*/
evil overlord whom sent monster into the world- "ah, how the hell did that happen, I totaly didn't see it comeing!!"
/*what ever damage the monster did unhappens*/
one of the power rangers-"why didn't we just use the ubber weapon in the first place?"
other power rangers- /*looks at the diferent one oddly*/...
"what did we say about questioning?"
power rangers-/*celebrates victory*/
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it was a great show when I was 5 :nod:
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no, it was a horable show when you were five, you were just too young to know better,
now transformers on the other hand...
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Up yours, Bob. it was and still is a great show. some people like you don't appreciate it because you take it way too seriously. It isn't supposed to be realistic. I suppose the intro should have started with this:
Warning: Please place tounge firmly in cheek before viewing.
and FYI, the uber weapon could only destroy the monster when it was weak, which is why the waited till the end to use it. they had to wear it down first.
and please, keep the bashing out of the this thread. it's about the art, remember.
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Originally posted by Bobboau
you were just too young to know better
That's what I meant. It seemed great when I was 5 even though it wasn't.
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Oh man, I used to love that show. Notice how they always clutch their shoulder, no matter where they are actually hurt.
Great work Carl, it brings back memories.
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OMG it looks just like the toy. Mad props to Carl. :yes:
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(O_o) why in gods name did you do that one...why not the green rangers zord?!
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Originally posted by Bobboau
power rangers- lets fight this human sized monster,
/*fights monster of roughly human size*/
/*get's beaten down by the monster's specal atack*/
/*find's monster's weakness and beat's monster down*/
monster- "ah I'm about to die!"
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other power rangers- /*looks at the diferent one oddly*/...
"what did we say about questioning?"
power rangers-/*celebrates victory*/
roflol :lol: i always used to wonder why the hell they didn't just summon the huge robot and stomp on the monster when he was small, or at least when the monster got big why they couldn't just use their superweapon in the first place...
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oh, and you should do mechagodzilla next :D
(http://www.clawmarktoys.com/newtoys/gmmg/gmmg6.jpg)
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do a metal gear next. do REX.
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Originally posted by Terawatt_99
oh, and you should do mechagodzilla next :D
(http://www.clawmarktoys.com/newtoys/gmmg/gmmg6.jpg)
That is the Dragonzord, isn't it? I'm confussed.
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no, that's mechagodzilla, a robot version of godzilla built by aliens.
Dragonzord:
(http://www.rovang.org/wg/pics/dragonzord.jpg)
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Bah, Power Rangers.
Bioman, people, Bioman! Or Sharivan :p
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Oh right, Dragonzord has the drill on the tail.
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:lol: @ Bob's description. It's funny 'cos it's true. :D
And good stuff finding the Dragonzord. That was one of my favourites... damn, I can't remember all those different zords... gotta think back.
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the one thing I always wondered was, why were there five diferent robots? they never used them in seperate forms, why didn't they just have one huge one and save them selves the time of puting it together every week?
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Originally posted by Bobboau
the one thing I always wondered was, why were there five diferent robots? they never used them in seperate forms, why didn't they just have one huge one and save them selves the time of puting it together every week?
it conforms to the rules of tokusatsu. big industry in japan, I believe.
plus, there are five of them, so they should have an ugly mecha each, shouldn't they? carls model, on the other hand, is awesome.
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I think they fought seperately a few times. I remember the Dino wrestling iwth a monster while the yellow tiger an dhte triceratops shot lasers. Mastadon had freezer guns.
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they fought seperately sometimes. but the main reason there were seperate ones was so they could make different combinations.
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what, like a leg? and the leg could kick someone? Or an arm, which I suppose would just hover there or something?
I remember the original, before it became like Power Rangers Super Ninja Time Attack Battle Squad. Good times...good times.
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Originally posted by Rictor
like Power Rangers Super Ninja Time Attack Battle Squad
in space. :D
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The first space one was actually pretty cool. :)
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I think I remember the zords fighting alone in a movie once...when they used this megazord.
(http://www.rangercentral.com/movie1-zd-megafalcon.jpg)
Remember the movie where they lost their powers and became ninjas for a little while to regain their zords? Yeah. That movie. The one that started with them going skydiving.
Oh...the good old days. :D
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the movie. blah. sure it had a bigger budget, but it was full of plot holes, inconsistences, and bad writing.
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I still have the movie. :D
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Originally posted by Rictor
what, like a leg? and the leg could kick someone? Or an arm, which I suppose would just hover there or something?
It would obviously turn into something else than usual.
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Like a gun.
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I'll never forgive Power Rangers, though, for so unashamedly stealing the idea from Voltron. Damn man, I've still got my Voltron action toys somewhere in the cupboard.
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more like the other way around, Steak. Power rangers uses footage from a japanese series called Sentai, which has been around since 1975. Voltron, on the other hand, uses footage from a series called GoLion, which started in 1981.
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*drool*
I used to love power rangers, and every so often, the conversation just seems to pop up. I still kinda love it because its so fun to bash, seeing as there are so many corny things you can make fun of.
At Bob's screenplay of just about every-episode-in-one, ROFLMFAO...
It also seems you guys forgot about each individual weapon that the power rangers had. It's not like they ALWAYS bust out the megazord. Red had his sword, yellow her knives, blue his big staff/lance/stabby thingy, pink her bow, black his axe/gun thing, green is knife/flute, and white his annoying bastard talking sword. Then they combined it all into this fatass crossbow thing to shoot rainbow lightning and kill the enemy. Schweet...
And then you know there was the kickass Titanus who combined with them to make the Ultrazord...
I could talk forever, but I'll spare you guys on this. Next model should be DRAGONZORD.
(No, I'm not some freak and nor did recall all these memories. I went and did some research :D)
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i actually started on the dragonzord about a year before this one, but then the computer i was using died, so it's sitting half finished on the HD right now.
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Originally posted by Carl
more like the other way around, Steak. Power rangers uses footage from a japanese series called Sentai, which has been around since 1975. Voltron, on the other hand, uses footage from a series called GoLion, which started in 1981.
Dude, damn. My entire worldview has been shattered.
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Originally posted by Carl
more like the other way around, Steak. Power rangers uses footage from a japanese series called Sentai, which has been around since 1975. Voltron, on the other hand, uses footage from a series called GoLion, which started in 1981.
Huh, no. Sentai is the name of the genre, not the name of a series, for exemple, Bioman is a sentai. Power Rangers, well, for me, that's a US sentai.
Afaik, Power Rangers doesn't use any footage from a japanese series, too.
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Originally posted by Nico
Huh, no. Sentai is the name of the genre, not the name of a series, for exemple, Bioman is a sentai. Power Rangers, well, for me, that's a US sentai.
Well, it is more of a series than a genre. they only make one per season, only one company produces them, and though the plots don't link together, they all exist in the same universe, as they have crossover movies and the like.
Originally posted by Nico
Afaik, Power Rangers doesn't use any footage from a japanese series, too.
uhh...yeah, yeah it does. about half of the footage of every show is imported from the sentai series from the year before.
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Ah well.
Regardless, the best sentai series remains Chodenshi Bioman, not your US thing :p