Search for Jack

[joeb]

As I said I use DAZ a lot. Here a pic by me ( an idea for Search for Jack) demonstarting what it's capable of.

[Scout]

Wow, Joe - that is amazing.

Wingy, Compared to most of the graphics applications I use for work, $500.00 is not at all expensive. It has quite a learning curve, though. Thought I'd post my first attempt - can you guess who it is supposed to be? (Bearing in mind that I haven't learned how to create hair yet. Or hats :o)

[rose]

Here is another suggestion. Jill should be older then Jack, his aunt or something, with glasses and handbag, like miss Marple! She is a smart lady!

[ryos]

Scout, that looks like Patrick Stewart.

[Psychotronic]

joeb wrote: As I said I use DAZ a lot. Here a pic by me ( an idea for Search for Jack) demonstarting what it's capable of.

Did she just whack a dinosaur with her hovercraft??? She's an ecological disaster! Ban her from the adventurer's board!

Pretty nice-lookin' picture, by the way.

[joeb]

Psychotronic,

See... Violent minds! If you look closely you'll see the dino on the ground has a tranquilizer dart in him, not a big hole. And she's holding a dart gun. The rudders on the hovercraft also have TS on them for Time Search. She just thought she saw some human tracks and wanted to investigate.

Wingy
I have a software circuit simulator that I paid almost $5,000 for when I was doing micro-controller design. National instruments LabView was around $3,400. But of course that's when I was doing pure consultation and could write it off at the end of the year. Our company car was an NSX. But that was many years and an open heart surgery ago.


I also immediately thought Patrick Stewart. Guess not....

Joe B

[Psychotronic]

Oops. My bad. Mama dino still seems upset about it.

And that is clearly a bald Harrison Ford.

[Scout]

LOL. Thank you, Psychotronic. Like I said, I haven't yet learned how to do hair or hats(!) in Zbrush. Anyway, didn't mean to hijack the thread. And I appreciate the feedback, either way.

[joeb]

AHA, I sense the method to your hijacking the thread. Your trying to get me to come up with a bald Harrison Ford looking Jack.
I get it now.

Scout,

No worries, just fun, but now I've got ask. Who is it?

Joe B

[joeb]

Scout,

AND...

if you haven't taken a look at DAZ I'd suggest you do.
www.daz3d.com

Hair is pretty easy to do and the facial meshes can be manipulated pretty easily. Oh yeah, best part is the software is free and it's cross platform. There are also some VERY cool tools you can get for it. Like Mimic which allows you to either type text in a plain or phoenetic format, tell it what character you're using and it will manipulate the character's facial mesh to look like it actually speaking the words. You can also tie expressions to the text stream, so you can get raised eye brows, creased forehead, etc. There are also plug-ins that let you do some basic particle animation. And you can't beat the price of the base software! When I get home tonight I'll post some other examples.

Joe B