The second episode of The Hrimfaxi Adventures , proof-of-concept animation, testing DAZ Studio’s lip synch and animation capabilities using OpenGL on a low-end Macintosh. A fun learning experience.
Hrimfaxi – Mars Fly-bys
Many versions of the Starship Hrimfaxi have been used over the years in different images, this is the final version that was chosen to be used in the first animation tests. Here’s the ship and planet used for a slow…
Hrimfaxi Adventures Episode 01: The Probe
The first episode of The Hrimfaxi Adventures A proof of concept animation, testing DAZ Studio’s lip synch and animation capabilities using OpenGL on a low-end Macintosh. A fun learning experience.
Back to the “retro” Future, Toon-Style!
DC comics in the late 50s and early 60s had a strong Science Fiction vibe running through most of their titles, in many cases due to editors Julius “Julie” Schwartz and Mort Weisinger, both of who were long-time science fiction agents and…
de terra ad astra
My earliest genre influences, – as with many children at the time -– came from television, movies and comics/books. On the TV front, I was born too late to enjoy the runs of Space Patrol, Rocky Jones-Space Ranger, Tom Corbett-Space Cadet…
LSH: The Early Days
The Legion of Super-Heroes, in its earliest days, was pure fun and adventure (how suiting that it’s first run as a series was in Adventure Comics). What it also had was potential. Being set in the 30th century, it fit…
Webboid Evolution Part 1
One seed for what grew into Webboids began in the 1950s and 1960s with a number of Artifical Intelligences (“AIs”) that appeared in books and media at the time. Robbie the Robot (from Forbidden Planet), Gort (from The Day the…
Valkyrie vs the Frost Giants
A quick test of a Fantasy scene — the beauty of 3D, of course, is the ability to create a scene once and generated multiple unique images from it by changing the camera position and/or the atmosphere. In these two…
Webboids!
This is a test page done a few years ago; the Webboid character is a morphed version of the 3D model “Chibi-Boy”, while the test page was assembled in Comic Life on an iPad. The Webboid featured in this sample…
Long Live the Legion
In 1958, DC Comics introduced The Legion of Super-Heroes to the world in Adventure Comics #247. I first encountered the group in 1961, and for me they were a game-changer. No longer limited to one or two super-heroes in a…