Preserved Topic: ^Jan Sig Contest^ - W h e e l s -

Wheels... round ones, any type or material.. performing any function.. as always keep the size reasonable --> GO!

hmmm... sounds like fun to me......

~ giggles to himself, as he rolls away ~

*is reminded of mahjqa's gear wheels*

quote:
as always keep the size reasonable
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11Kb would be reasonable, right? [recycling]

Edit: before we get questions like 'I made a tire, now how can I make my name on it?' I recommend Liquid's Polar coordinates tutorial



[This message has been edited by mahjqa (edited 01-06-2002).]

I can recycle old sigs too!



[edit]Now that I think about it, it might not be that much of a wheel.. but it rotates and is made of round segments! That makes it a wheel! Right guys? .. Guys?[/edit]

[This message has been edited by [peer] (edited 01-06-2002).]

a ferris wheel would be interesting!

lol Grumble thats part of the challenge, to keep things of a reasonable size Optimization is a good thing right?

Oh did I forget to mention that 'recycled sigs' will not be judged, how can I say? with the same bias ~slackers~

I think some people around here might want to make something animated. Here's a shortcut of doing so:



If you have a regular shape (like a star or a gear) you can easily animate it by flipping it 90º each time, for three frames. The star or gear has to have an odd amount of points, (or teeth if you use a gear) but any odd number (3,5,7,329) will do. I used this with the gear sig you can see 3 posts up. Another plus of this method is that you only need 4 frames for an animation.

Hey all this is my first go at the sig contest so here goes.

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Sorry Guys I Suck!
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[This message has been edited by Dark (edited 01-07-2002).]

165kb Dark? me thinks that is an immediate disqualification. jaggies or not! heh

for the record, me thinks some ppl might be misinterpreted what a wheel is? perhaps?

165k and thats all there is! wow......why is that filesize so big?

I got something cookin for this one......gimme a week or two and I should have it up.

did some one say RECYCLE? wheels?

Hi, I'm new, sort of (a lurker). Giving the contest a shot.

I'm impressed sal, that looks really cool. It would look so wicked if you animated it though. Just the tire spinning and the reflection stationary. Do it! Do it! I wanna see it.

EG

nice color wheel, mage.
but the animation of the wheel itself is not perfectly "round". maybe you can fix that.

sal, good work there! welcome!

also mage, it gets cut off at the end but its still cool, its creative...


[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 01-08-2002).]

Don't know if you guys here will like this, but I'll post it anyway because I spend a lot of time on it. (Photoshop is addicting, but you all know that allready I guess)

Since I may call myself, in a few months hopefully, a mechanical engineer I bring you a little technical drawing.


btw: nice siggies around here

(and I know it's BIG)

mage, do not touch that wheel, it's perfected in using closure as it is.

question mark - the english term for the process through which we can interlink comic strips in our mind is called "closure" (not sure if i spelled it right)

[This message has been edited by Arthemis (edited 01-08-2002).]

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*falls of chair* heheheh .. classic there Dracusis!!! complex in its simplicity! lol ~Vp~

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not bad eighdee but you lose marks for because everyone knows that extension lines arent supposed to touch object lines......thats just sloppy.

im an mechanical engineering student as well. do you use any CAD/CAM apps? whats yer preference?

oh.....and that's "Re-engineering the wheel", have a look, you'll see what i mean.

EG:
extension lines: didn't know that, my teachers didn't hammer on that. But i checked an autocad book and you're right.
typo: thank you (english is not my motherlanguage)
CAD: i have little experience in autocad

Thanks for the inputs

You know, I should prolly get to work on making an actual entry for this contest..

Wow that's some good stuff you guys, I'll try and get some time later this week and see if I can do something for this one.....

grumble, still on sig trip.



respect goes to slime, for opening me media effects. yes, these are 3 hollow spheres.

Grumble; It's great! I don't have a clue how you did it, but I have one niggle: The two objects are really separated, at first I thought they were two separate gifs. Maybe color the balls orange too (a hue/saturation layer or something like that) since they don't seem to be connected in any way. I really hate to ask this but how did you do it?

well, yes, i'll make a version with the spheres only. i hate the right part too. i just wanted to add me name to it. then i did this. then there was so much empty space and so i added that other crap.

how did i do this? well, slime, showed me some tricks on media-effects in pov-ray. so i played around a little bit. and there i had three hollow spheres with these nice particles inside. well then: rendered an 11-frame animation @ 160x120 -> imported to imageready -> cut away background and the rest is obvious.

are you interested in the code?

No, but thanks. I don't have POVray. I just couldn't think of a way to do it with PS.

yea, i guess you'd need some kind of mathematical approach...
btw povray is freeware at www.povray.org - just in case you didnt know.

[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 01-18-2002).]

i believe it could be done with photoshop using the numeric transform tools, but that would be some freaky math

This, I believe, is my 3rd animated sig. I only remember doing 2 others, and they both suck big time. Even though this is my 3rd, this is my 1rst animation with 3DS Max's help. Turned out to be only 15k, which surprised me a bit.

Ver sweet wrk War... not really original tho... Now if it was an orange three dimensional skull mounted on the inner cog spinnin around... that would totally rock!

hmmmm. where have i seen that concept already?
nice work though!

hey lotiss, did you paint your car?
hehe. good work there! everything PS?

Hey, I'm in unexplored territory. Gotta start slow and simple.

Although, Izzy, you did give me an idea. Don't know if I'll get it done before someone else does his version it, though.

my bored whelll....hehehe




ciao

ahem



edit: sorry, didnt see your post in the other thread. good work there! 3dsm i assume?

[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 01-19-2002).]

which post you refered, pal?


edit:stupid me!! hehe..well it´s a easy work mixing Pshop and 3dstudio MAx...


...L i v E to L e a r N...

[This message has been edited by bramer (edited 01-19-2002).]

continued over Here ~Vp~