Archive for January, 2009

Not a title that you can easily pronounce with a mouth full of uncooked rice, but a very well thought out subject matter none the less.

My entry for this, again harped back to some classics: One of the many cartoons I enjoyed as a chiddler was Roadrunner. They can still make me cry with laughter these days.

The following entry sprang to mind. See what I did there…. “sprang”? No? Just me then….

I give you, an ACME style ‘Stoopid Gun’.

It can take even the most attentive cartoon lover more than one look to spot the flaw in this one; don’t beat yourself up if it doesn’t jump out at you immediately!

Haha…. “beat”….. “jump out”. Ooooh, I crack myself up sometimes.

This entry won me the round; due to efficient modelling and a well carried out concept. This means that I’ll be choosing the subject matter, and performing judging duties of round 24.

Keep well all, more soon.

When the subject for Challenge #21 of the Speed Modelling series was announced…… I knew almost immediately what I wanted to do as my entry.

Not only is it one of the strangest (in my own humble opinion) modes of transportation, but I’m sure a few of you out there will recognise our reference to one of the classics.

Red, from Red’s Dream.

Obviously, we don’t have to tell you that all copyrights belong to their relevant parties and all that malarky, but who in our position wouldn’t pay some virtual homage to Pixar for something like this?

More soon, keep well all.

Eight Eyed Sea Bass are extremely excited to announce that after a hell of a lot of hard graft, we have launched our new Disc e-Quoting System.

The point of the system is to make life easy for clients, who want a price quickly for CD or DVD jobs. Our system caters for duplication needs, packaging, and printed inserts, along with selectable timescales.

Then at the end you are presented with a quote on the same page – it is INSTANT – so you can’t get much faster than that!

Have a go for yourself. You’ll find our new tool here – www.eesb.tv/discs

I had some spare time again to fire an entry or two into this weeks speed modelling challenge as well. After a touch of research, I found something that I thought wasn’t going to make peoples constitutions curl up (or my own!):

1). A reflex hammer. A hammer, that a Doctor would test your reflexes with. You know, one of those.

View 2 of the reflex hammer.

I was pleasantly surprised by the modern designs of reflex hammers to be found these days. If I’m honest – I don’t think I remember seeing one in the flesh as it were, but the ones I have seen previously in books or on that little-known thing called TV, were not quite as nice as the references that helped me produce this.

And finally, a Cushing Elevator.
I’m with you here – I have no idea what exactly a Cushing Elevator is, or does. It was another medical object to model that wasn’t going to make me feel a bit green around the gills, although there is something about it that is unnervingly simple.

If anyone out there can shed any light on the uses of a Cushing Elevator – I would be much obliged.

That’s the short update for the time being – more soon, keep well all.

I thought I’d have a go at entering the Speed Modelling challenge for the first time – the subject matter this time was “Medical”.

The rules, if you don’t know, are to model your subject in 60 minutes. You are allowed time after to dress the model up in materials, light it and then render your image.

Making use of available minutes in a couple of evenings (45 minutes one eveving, 15 minues a couple of days later), here is what I came up with:

Yep, a hospital bed. Safer looking that some of the grotesque tools some of the other entries portrayed!!

It was fun to do this. I will probably enter more contests when I get some time.

Just a quicky…:
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Over the Christmas break I was studying and had a few 3D projects I wanted to get through in order to learn from them and improve my skills.

Here’s a quick view of one of them, as a work-in-progress. The camera is a little jittery, so I have to figure out how to get better control over that (the details of its movement were hidden away…).

Well, it is Paul’s 35th birthday after all!

Actually, we are sure that he is probably drinking and relaxing – two things he doesn’t normally get an opportunity to apply together!

Have a good day, that man!

Just a quick message to everybody out there to say Happy New Year!!

We hope you all have a fantastic time, and that despite all the doom and gloom, there is many a positive thing to be had by you all individually.

Keep well.