As I was plotting through the short story I’m working on, I browsed over to Chris Weston’s blog and read about how he had modeled a car in a 3D program to help him with perspective shots. I thought that was a pretty cool idea, so I downloaded and installed Google Sketchup on my machine. I watched a few tutorials (and had worked with some 3D programs before) and worked up a scale model of a WWII Japanese Koryu mini-submarine. I have actually enjoyed working on it so much that I probably spent more time on it than I should, but it’s been pretty successful. I’ve downloaded some of the models available for Sketchup and constructed a scene to place the model in that should be darned helpful and I’m really looking forward to seeing how well it works.
In other pulp news, Francesco Francavilla, a great artist and pulp devotee, has been doing some interesting interpretations of classic Dick Tracy characters on his Pulp Sunday blog!
-Dave
I really need to try that program, ive been trying to learn Blender after having been taught Strata3DPro in college, which was really easy to use, and Blender is just a mess.
It’s pretty intuitive, free, and there are tons of user-created models and scenes to download. For what I’m going to be using it for, it’s pretty sweet.)
-Dave
I definitely gotta try that!
I don’t suppose they have, say, airplane hangar models, do they?
Don
*plink!*
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=airplane+hanger&styp=m
Yes, they do!)
-Dave
That’s it, downloading tonight!
You rock Dave!
Still trying to wrap my head around this program but it is one of the easiest ones I’ve come across. Dave is doing phenomenal work with it. I think it’s one of the better tools for artists out there. It might take a little while to build something from scratch but you’ll have it for a good long time reference wise.
CG artist too now? You never cease to amaze do ya??? Great stuff.