Alex Ledante
If you’ve seen my latest pirate piece, then you might remember that I was having some problems with the kegs reading as gunpowder. Here is my part of my solution to that issue, the other part will be instantiation…
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Question of
is this a better read?
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Question of
now does it look like gunpowder?
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Question of
do you remember what instantiation is?
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Question of
do you remember what instantiation is?
Many of the old barrels had “POWDER” or “BLACK POWDER” I seem to recall. Maybe that’s too blatant but may be the solution. It was important to know that it was an explosive possibility.
IRL that would be an optimal solution, but here I’m afraid it would come across as lazy
I thought of a hole with powder leaking/spilling out.
…… I know you’re now wondering, “Why do they call it help?”
BTW — the skull and crossbones is subtle and ingenious –
It looks nice, but I am concerned it reads pirate and not danger
that would actually be the best solution, if I hadn’t cropped out the ground plane…
these are detail shots / test renders of the model
okay, I understand now…
the title of this piece is now Bombardier, but I can’t change the title of this post…
yeah, I can grow old and die waiting for a title change
I think instantiation is what my brother did when he planted images of ghosts in a photo I had taken of a haunted campsite. Anyway, I like your first one best, and yes it looks a lot more like what it is, plus it is so kewl to have the spirit of powder dwelling in the wood.
In this context, instantiation is where you replicate a single model across different locations. So it looks like there are multiple instances of the object, but only a single instance of geometry. Keeps the memory footprint nice and small
You are so patient. Anyway it is a really fun barrel.
working with machines, I had best be patient…
My first computer science instructor said working with computers would change us and how we look at the world. He was right. BTW, it was an elective.
Hmm nice barrel but won’t really remind me of gunpowder though.
alas, I can think of no other way to indicate it…
Very nicely done. Love the final result. And just so you know I had to google the term and now I know what instantiation means. Word of the day.
I used it previously in my Goldilocks meets Escher post